Power Step 2: Create A Timeline To Drop Your Goal Into?
It’s important to create a timeline for your goal because a goal without a time limit is just a dream!!!
Life is a journey from when you are conceived till the day you die. Along this journey you will want to accomplish many different things. The sooner you tick off one of the things on your list, the sooner you can go about achieving your next mission.
Knowing when you want to achieve a goal by is very important. For most of us, becoming a millionaire is very possible however if you have never earned over $50,000 and you want to become a millionaire next week, this is less likely then if you give yourself five years.
What Happens When You Create A Timeline For Your Goal
When you give your universal mind instructions it goes about delivering the results to you. If you don’t give it a time line, it will continue to work away, perhaps years after the goal has ceased to become important. Your universal mind does not reason. It just works away until it delivers or its instructions gets overwritten.
By setting a time limit you become more focused. You have prioritized this goal as more important than some of your other dreams. As such, you universe will put more emphasis on finding the solutions for you.
For instance, if you goal is to become an elite athlete, your focus will be on training. You know that you only have a limited amount of time to achieve this goal. After all, how often has the fastest man in the world been over the age of 40?
Things To Be Aware Of
This is a challenging step. The reason for this is because people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve over a period of 10 years.
People overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve over a period of 10 years
How realistic is your goal: If your goal is to date a supermodel and you have never dated a girl before and you work part time in a McDonald's store, recognize that there is a journey you need to go through before a supermodel will be attracted to you. Even if you are the best looking guy in the world, a supermodel is not interested in a guy who works part time at McDonald's. She became a supermodel so she can live a rock star lifestyle, something you can’t provide for her right at this point.
It doesn’t mean you can’t date a supermodel, what you will discover is you need to set up a lifestyle that a supermodel will fit into. This takes time. The amount of time depends on you though.
How To Create A Timeline
Have a look at how much of a challenge this goal is to you. What is a realistic time frame that is ambitious, not ridiculous? Give yourself at least a year to accomplish this goal.
Create A Timeline: When do you want to achieve this goal by: _____________________________________________________
There might be times where you want to achieve a goal within a year, such as reach certain sales targets in the next 6 months. Then make this the time limit.
Be Ready To Re-Set The Goal As You Get Close To Achieving Your Goal
As you move towards your goal, you will become aware if you are on target to achieving it, ahead of the target or there is little chance of achieving it.
You always want to be assessing where you are now compared to where you want to be. What this means is that you should revisit this goal every month. Then you can either reign it in or aim higher.
If you are to fly from Sydney to Los Angeles, the plane is constantly going off target. The pilot is constantly assessing the progress of the flight and when the plane has drifted off the path, the pilot re-directs the plane to ensure it reaches the right destination.