Dr. Sudhir Arora, MBBS
Pune's Leading Mind Control Consultant and Motivational Speaker

Achieving Your Goals

Your Goals And Inner Happiness
Please write down what you really want to achieve in your life regarding job, money and material things? Keep only materialistic things on this list. Cancel out personal happiness and good relationships out of this list because emotions cannot be converted into logical goals.

Remember, happiness and all other emotions happen only in the present moment while the materialistic success of achieving goals happens in the future. Therefore, goals and inner happiness are mutually opposite. Also, please note that excitement of achieving goals is not the same as happiness or peace of mind.

Your Major Materialistic Goals
Now, label your major materialistic life goals as : "A" grade : "Must do" goals. "B" grade : "Better to do" goals. "C" grade : "Can wait" goals. Bring together all "A" grade goals on one page and forget the rest right now. Convert your big "A" grade goals into small weekly such goals and follow the following formula.

P.P.F. gives S. M. A. R. T. benefits:
P- PERSONAL : e.g. Improving your whole family's life is not a personal goal. Think what self-development course you can do to improve your own personal life to contribute to your family's over-all life style.
This is a personal goal.

P- POSITIVE : e.g. "I'll bring Mr. Panse down so that I can appear brighter than him" - is a negative goal. "Let Mr. Panse do what he thinks right. I am going to improve my performance to outshine him."
This is a positive goal.

F- FLEXIBLE : e.g. "I wanted to earn Rs.10,000 in one month. However, due to sudden slump in the market, I could earn only Rs.8,000. I accept that temporarily". This is a flexible goal.

S- Specific: e.g. "I want to become rich." This is a non-specific goal. "I want to start my own business of trading in mobile phones." This is a specific goal.

M- Measurable: This is one of the two most important criteria while formulating a goal. Can you measure your goal ? e.g. "Being a better person" cannot be measured. But "I shall spend minimum 30 minutes daily on my exercise."- is a measurable goal.

A- Achievable: e.g. "I can have 20% improvement in my income in a month. However, I want to have 200% improvement in a month." Is it an achievable goal ? It's always better in life to have a chain of many small achievements rather than chase a few big achievements.

R- Review Periodically: e.g. "I can become the Prime Minister of India in twenty years. However, am I being realistic enough to judge myself if I want to become India's PM in two years ?" Review your progress periodically every week.

T- Time-Bound: This is the second most important criteria to judge the soundness of a goal. e.g. "I wish to go on a vacation to "Mahabaleshwar" is a measurable goal. But when ? In one month ? Or in ten years?
Therefore, putting a definite date limit of say "by the 10th of next month" on the achievement of that goal is a must to achieve that goal.

Benefits: For the benefit of achieving your goal you will have to pay a cost. Always. For nothing comes free in life. Calculate the cost to be paid as immediate-term, short-term, medium-term and long-term.

The cost will be in terms of your health, family life, leisure time, religious and moral values, sexual life, tensions, job, money and status.
Once you are ready to pay that cost smilingly, then implement the final decision and go ahead full steam to fulfill your goals.