BA Program12 STEP METHOD

TO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS

Amir Ebrahimnejad

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS Step #1

Decide exactly what you want in every key area of your life.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• Imagine that there are no limitation on what

you can be, have or do. if your life was perfect in each area, what would it look like?

• Income?• Family?• Health?• Net worth?

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• If your life was perfect, what would your

INCOME be?

• Career?• Position?• Earnings?• Business?

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• If your life was perfect, what would your

FAMILY look like?

• Relationships?• Lifestyle?• Vacations?• Children?

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• If your life was perfect, how would your

HEALTH be?

• Weight?• Exercise Ability?• Energy Level?• Immunity?

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• If your life was perfect, what would your NET

WORTH be?

• Wealth?• Retirement?• 401K?• Life insurance Policy?

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #2

Write it down.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• Your goals must be:ClearSpecificMeasurable

• Only 3% adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #3

Set a Deadline.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• You must set a deadline for your goal and

then sub-deadlines.• I.E. if you want to become financially

independent you may set a 10 year goal deadline, then break it down, year by year.

• Complete your goal one realistic step at a time.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS Step #4

Identify the obstacles that you will have to overcome to achieve your goal.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• Theory of Constraints: there is always one

limiting factor or constraint that sets the speed at which you achieve your goal.

• What’s yours?

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS

• 80/20 Rule:• 80% of the reasons that are holding you

back are inside yourself.• Only 20% of the reasons are outside of

yourself.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #5

Identify the knowledge, information, and skills you will need to achieve your goal.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #6

Identify the people whose help and cooperation you will require to achieve your goal.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS

• Make a list of every person in your life that you will have to work with or work around to achieve your goal.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS

• The most successful people are those who build and maintain the largest networks of other people whom they can help and who can help them in return.

• Be a “go-giver” rather than a “go-getter.”

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #7

Make a list of everything you will have to do to achieve your goal.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• Combine the obstacles that you will have to

overcome, the knowledge and skills you will have to develop, and the people whose cooperation you will require.

• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

• You can build the biggest wall in the world one brick at a time.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #8

Organize your list into a plan.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• First, organize your list by sequence.• What do you have to do before you can do

something else? What’s the order?

• Next, organize your list by priority.• What is more important and what is less

important?

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #9

Make a plan.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• Plan each day, week, and month in advance• Plan each month at the beginning of the

month• Plan each week the weekend before.• Plan each day, the night before.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #10

Select your #1 most important task for each day.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• Ask yourself:

“If I could only do one thing all day long, which one activity would contribute the most value to my work and to my goals?”

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #11

Develop the habit of self-discipline.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS• Once you have decided on your most

important task, resolve to concentrate single-mindedly on that one task until it is 100% complete.

• Once you have developed the habit of completing your tasks, you will earn two and three and even five times as much as other people.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALSStep #12

Practice visualization on your goals.

12 STEP METHODTO SETTING AND ACHIEVING YOUR

GOALS

• Create clear, vivid, exciting, emotional picture of your goals as if they were already a reality.

• A mental picture combined with an emotion has an enormous impact on your subconscious and your super conscious mind.