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Attraction into your life of circumstances, ideas, events and people that harmonise with your
most dominant thoughts and desires then comes naturally. Remember:

“You become what you think about most of the time”.
Five Essential Elements Of Goal Achievement

You will have come across the mnemonic SMART if you have been introduced to goal setting
previously. It is used extensively in training sessions and means that when setting goals they
should be:
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Make each goal SPECIFIC – not “I want to be richer” – how much money specifically £100,000 in
investments and £50,000 in cash? What is rich to you may be totally different for someone else. “I
want to end world hunger” is not a specific goal whereas “I see myself working for an
international relief agency” is a specific goal.
Set MEASURABLE goals. This is easy with goals such as weight loss or financial goals but “I want to
be a better salesperson” is unquantifiable. What does “better” mean to you? “I am becoming a
better salesperson who will meet and exceed the target of a 10% increase in the coming
financial year is SPECIFIC and MEASURABLE.

Goals need to be AGREED or ACTION-ORIENTED. “If you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail” and
if you don’t take action, it will never happen.

Decide what goals are REALISTIC. Realistic, does not mean something that you would ordinarily
do – that is not a goal. If goals are not challenging, they don’t stretch you, the feeling of real
achievement doesn’t happen, and you get bored easily. However if they are virtually
impossible, you may become disheartened at your perceived lack of progress and fulfil your
own prophecy of “I never achieve my goals.”
There is nothing to say that you cannot become a millionaire, but to set a goal to be one by
next Monday when you’ve got £5 in your pocket today is not realistic – (unless your numbers
come up on the Lottery, and then that’s not a goal within your control, that’s relying on Lady
Luck!)

If you’re a 45 year old man, you will never be the youngest person to run the mile in under 4
minutes, however fit you are – and someone’s already done that anyway. You could however,
set a goal to run a mile 10 seconds faster than you have before.
Goals need to be TIME-PHASED. Basically, you need to put dates next to when you want to have
achieved your goal, and dates for milestones along the way. Be careful though, that the
milestones do not become millstones around your neck. These target dates also feed into what
needs to be done this month, this week, and today – and need to be written in your planner or
diary.