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Record your progress - this will show you where you started from, how far you've progressed, and
where you still have to go.

Set aside a time and place every week to transfer your daily/weekly actions into your Goal
Journal - this will keep you on track and keep you motivated when you realise just how far you
have come. Choose a journal or folder that evokes passion, something that you want to use
and handle regularly. Writing goals on scraps of paper gives the message that they are
somehow unimportant - your subconscious will receive that message and act on it (or not, as
the case may be).
REVIEW your goals and your progress regularly. Write a summary of your goals on a GOAL CARD
which you carry with you always. Read your Goal Card every morning and every evening - if
you do something regularly, at the same time, in the same way, it will soon become a habit.
Allocate time for this daily review session, think about your goals, see them in your mind as you
read. Revisit your Goal Journal each week and record the progress made. If, during the week
you have taken no action toward your goal, write nothing in big red letters. (If you have done
nothing for more than one week, it's time to question the validity of your goal).

As time goes on, you may find you need to update one or more of your goals - your priorities
may change. Make the necessary adjustments in your Goal Journal. Of course, the best update
session of all is when you have achieved that which you set out to do and you can put a big tick
next to it! Time now for a reward and to replace it with a new goal.
4. Use the Goal Journal to record the AFFIRMATIONS you will be using to re-train your subcon-
scious. Affirmations are statements used to re-programme your subconscious mind. Remember
the 4 ‘P’s and make them:
1. POSITIVE

2. PROVOKING EMOTION
3. PRESENT TENSE

4. PERSONAL

Positive As the mind thinks in pictures, it has difficulty processing a negatively stated
goal. It's not possible for the mind to picture you not doing something and
by using positive affirmations you shift the mind from concentrating on
what you don't want to what you do want.

Provoking The more feeling you blend with your self-talk, the faster it impacts your
Emotion subconscious. Use words you wouldn't ordinarily use - passionate, bold and
fun - that'll pique the interest of your subconscious mind! Make the
affirmations emotionally relevant to you.

Present Tense The language your subconscious mind understands is present tense - it
doesn't understand or acknowledge the past or the future. Speak its
language and it will understand - tell it consistently and it will act. Feed it
with the idea that the condition you desire already exists. The most powerful
words in the English language come after the words "I am". Use "ing" words
such as receiving, deserving, acquiring - these are verbs conjugated in the
present, suggesting that it is actually happening at this very moment "Now"
is another good word to emphasise present tense.
Personal