GOAL SETTING FOR GLOWING GOOD HEALTH

Goal setting is the most important factor for moving your life in a direction that you truly want, one that makes you feel good and has meaning for you. This includes the five major areas of life: Self, Health, Wealth, Love and Spirit.

Most people who have not taken the time to set personal goals for themselves in these areas are content to drift with the tide. They’re the ones who are buffeted about by life’s changing circumstances, and they’re always scrambling to keep up.

Ironically, these are the very same people who complain the most! I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. They don’t read the writing on the wall, then they squawk when nobody reads it for them. The sad thing is, such people will never be truly happy until they finally take responsibility for where they are and chart a course for where they’d like to be.

You see, nothing that requires deliberate action can happen without a plan. It means thinking ahead. You can’t just drift your way into wealth, success or glowing good health. You have to want it, and you have to go after it. You've got to design your life in order for all the pieces to fit together.

For instance, let’s talk about that Health topic for a minute. If you don’t have good health, nothing else really matters, does it? The only thing you can think about is your physical condition, especially if it’s causing you pain. As you get older, those little annoyances can turn into big fat problems if you keep ignoring them – and you keep doing the things that contribute to them.

On the flip side, if you’re feeling great, you’re naturally enthusiastic, full of energy and ready to take on the world. Nothing phases you because you feel so good. This kind of good health doesn't happen by accident, but it is achievable with only a slight effort. Let’s take a look at that.

Setting a Target for Good Health

It may seem obvious, but I’ll say it anyway. You want to make it your goal to be healthy, to look good and feel great. Planning ahead helps you get there, and tracking your progress will keep you motivated and focused on your goal. In fact, Goal setting is healthy for your body and healthy for your mind.

To keep a positive attitude, there are common sense things you can do to take care of your body. These things include eating right, drinking lots of water, getting the right amount of sleep, and getting plenty of exercise.

In the rush of everyday life, it’s all too easy to set aside tasks that don’t seem to make a big difference in the short term. What some people don’t realize is what a huge impact these things can have in the long term aggregate.

For instance, how many people do you know who don’t drink enough water? It’s the simplest thing in the world to do, but hoards of people are walking around chronically dehydrated. Their insides are about as dirty as a New York City sewer. All it would take to clean it out is a simple shift in attention: a small glass of water every hour.

The same is true with proper diet, exercise and a good night’s rest. People imagine themselves to be too busy to fit these things into their schedule. But being ill is much more time consuming. There’s only one person who’s really in charge of your time, and that person is you. So set a goal to take care of yourself. It matters.

Focus On Your Strengths & Likes

When setting goals, choose targets that you really want to reach – the things that you’re naturally drawn to. The best thing you can do for yourself is play on your strengths. Think about the things that you enjoy doing, then find a way to make them part of your life. After all, life should be fun, right? Think about the things you are good at, the things you just naturally like.

If you want to watch your waistline, come up with a list of foods that you love that also support your weight goals. Invest in some quality herbs and spices, and make sure you always have plenty of fresh, flavourful produce on hand.

If you want to increase your strength and stamina, identify activities that you love. There’s no point in heading to a sweaty, smelly gym to use an exercise bike if you’d rather be cycling outdoors with a fresh breeze in your face. Look for things you’re naturally attracted to that fit in with your personal goals. Find way for your plans to succeed.

Set time aside for yourself on a regular basis so you can do the things you enjoy, the things that are good for you. Set yourself up for success. Here are five steps you can take to set quality health goals, turn them into habits and create lifelong habits for success:

1. Take stock of your good health habits. Where’s the commonality? How can you use these factors to create more health in your life? Write down the steps you can take to ramp them up.
2. Come up with a concept of what homoeostasis looks like for you – that state of glowing good health – and determine when you are going to reach it. This is now your long term goal.
3. Decide on sub-goals you want to accomplish along the way and how long you need to accomplish them, thinking in terms of days, weeks or months.
4. Set yourself up to begin working on your goal. Set up the project’s tasks on your calendar. Make a note of where you plan to be with each task and when.
5. As you begin a project or complete a goal, track the progress and review your next steps. As you meet certain milestones, treat yourself to something special to reward your progress. If you find yourself running behind, you might need to pick it up a step or extend out the deadline.

 Re-assess your goals from time to time. As you finish one goal, set a new one. Goal setting is not important, it’s essential for your success in each of the major areas in life. When you set goals and work through a plan for achieving them, you will be motivated to achieve more than ever.

When you choose goals that make you feel good and enhance your health, the total picture will open up for you.

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR SELLING TIME

As a salesperson, your most precious resource is, arguably, actual selling time. While there are always going to be some forces you can’t control, you can control how you manage your selling time.

A Sales Funnel is a time-management tool that allows you to focus your work in order to accomplish the following essential tasks:

·         Define where you are in the selling process by categorizing your sales opportunities into four different “stages” of the funnel

·         Track each sales opportunity’s progress as it moves “down the funnel”—from first contact to signed order

·         Prioritize the opportunities in each stage of the funnel

·         Allocate time to each opportunity in the funnel so that you’re consistently performing four essential kinds of selling work (see below)

·         Forecast future income based on how rapidly and smoothly your opportunities are moving toward the close

The four distinct stages of the Sales Funnel are segmented into four different kinds of account activity, with each one corresponding to a different type of selling work:

1.     Prospect

2.     Qualify

3.     Cover the bases

4.     Close the order

Since it’s likely you’ll have many possible orders working at the same time, all at different stage of completion, you’re not going to be doing the same kind of work on all of them at the same time—you’ll be prospecting or qualifying on some pieces of business while you’re closing others and covering the bases in still others.

By consistently doing the right kind of work on each potential order at the right time, you’ll be able to move your various sales opportunities down the funnel at a steady, predictable rate—so that your income is also steady and predictable.

NOTHING CHANGES UNTIL SOMETHING CHANGES

I've often said I've never met a lazy human being. I often
meet folks who are stuck or frustrated, or who spend their
time on things that make no sense to me, but I've never met
anyone who doesn't want more of some things and less of
other things. As the Dalai Lama notes, humans are designed
to move toward happiness and away from suffering. We're
built that way.
I have noticed with increasing frequency, however, that we
often work really hard to accomplish very little. We are a
stubborn lot! We try and try, and try again, even though
our favorite strategy isn't working, and there is little
evidence to suggest it will ever work. And yet, we keep on
trying.
Most of the people who will read this actually live pretty
comfortable lives. If you can read this, you probably have
a computer and some literacy skills. You may live in a
wealthy country, probably have a job, and the basics of
life--food, clothing, shelter, perhaps even a savings plan-
-are all addressed. So, it might make sense for IMPACT
readers to be relatively content and want very little.
But that is not what I see or hear from clients, or in my
email. We are an ambitious lot! We want more money, more
time, more personal fulfillment, more satisfying work, and
so forth. We want to make our lives better! Yes, sometimes
we are discouraged that things aren't improving faster, but
we remain energetic and determined! I love that!
And that raises the question: Why aren't we getting the
things we say we want?
We live in an age of opportunity and abundance. Over any 5-
year period, you can have, see, do or become just about
anything you desire. You can visit Antarctica, you can get an advanced degree,
become wealthy, run a marathon, launch a website or move

 overseas . There are no limits!  
So, why aren't we getting the things we say we want?
My answer is this: Many of us are using really stupid
strategies. We have goals or desires or dreams, but we are
pursuing them with strategies that have almost no chance of
succeeding. We have been "trying" for years without
success, and yet we keep on doing the same things in the
same way, year after year. That is, to be blunt, really
dumb!
If you are not reaching your goal, you have two basic
choices: change your goal, or change your strategy. You
either "get this" or you don't. What more can I say?
The reality is that you CAN be happy in this life. You can
make money, if that is your goal. You can raise happy,
healthy kids if that is your dream. You can build a huge
company or start a charitable foundation. You can write a
book or teach high school or do whatever brings you joy.
But to have those things, something must change. If your
current strategy isn't working, tell the truth about that.
If you've had a major goal for more than a year and it
isn't happening, ask why not! Question your approach. Get
better advice. Do something different!
And, above all, acknowledge the things you will have to
change to allow your goal to arrive. Who will you have to
become? What will you have to stop being or doing? Who or
what will have to exit your life for new realities to be at
home in your world? 
Nothing will change until something changes. What steps or
changes will move you forward this week? What must you read
or learn? What must you do, or stop doing? What must you
invest? Who should you call, or stop calling? If your
dreams and goals are truly important to you, do one thing
different this week. Take a step. Try a new way. It's time
to go for it!

MAKE BUSINESS EASY

One of the basics for any business is that it should be
easy for customers to do business with you. Make sure you
are easy to find and easy to talk with. Make it easy for
your customers to order and above all, make it easy for
them to get great service when it's needed.
Dr Philip Humbert share this;

"A while back I violated that basic rule.
For fifteen years, I did a World Class Life (tm) Conference
every spring. One year, out of concern for credit card
safety, I increased the security level of our online
shopping cart. Unfortunately, I made the system so strict
that no one could register! The first seven people who
tried were all declined, including a doctor from South
Carolina who then decided not to attend. In my attempt to
increase security, I lost a customer. That's a loss for my
business, of course, but it was also a loss for the good
doctor, and for everyone who would have benefited from his
participation".
Don't do that!
And yet businesses do it every day. One local restaurant
has an impossible parking lot. I think it's dangerous and I
hate going there. I see businesses without good signs, and
I call businesses who don't accept calls from "blocked"
numbers! How dumb is that?
One of my "pet peeves" are people who insist on continuing
business calls when their cell reception is terrible. I
view that as rude and foolish. Instead, schedule a time
when you'll have better coverage and return the call later.
Better reception will put your customer in a much more
receptive mood!
Make it easy to do business with you, and remember--
everything counts! Success and failure are in the details.
Make it easy to do business with you.