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I have a system of ridding my mind of negative thoughts. “I visualize myself writing them down on a piece of paper. Then I imagine myself crumpling up the paper, lighting it on fire, and burning it to a crisp'. -- Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was one of my favorite heroes when I was young. Unfortunately, he died too young. But he left a lasting legacy for all martial artists and people that want to get the goals they set in general. There are many quotes attributed to Bruce Lee. This is one of my favorites.

Bruce Lee used visualization to help him clear his mind of limiting thoughts. The vision of seeing himself writing down his negative thoughts on paper and then crumbling them up is a very positive vision. But Bruce didn't stop there.

Bruce then took that crumpled up, wrinkled piece of paper and lit it on fire. That was a second way to get rid of the negative thoughts. But Bruce, in this exercise like most things he did, he took it further and watched it BURN TO A CRISP! That thought makes it so much more emphatic that you destroyed the negative, limiting beliefs.

How do you handle your negative thoughts? Do you visualize burning them, or cutting them out of your life? How do you get rid of those negative thoughts?

Let me know in the show notes at Goal Getting Podcast / qod48 - go to the comments section and tell my how you get rid of your negative thoughts. What are your most limiting thoughts you face?

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[bctt tweet="The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~ Albert Einstein"]

We are who we are because of what we think. The only way to change who or what we are is to change our thinking. One of my favorite websites is TUT.com and their motto is

Thoughts become things - choose the good ones.

This is very true. We are what we think. We are what we say we are. Negative self-talk is negative programming into our subconscious mind. When we are think about things, we should always be thinking positive, success-oriented thoughts. You have a choice over your thoughts. You control who you are by the thoughts you think. Choose the good ones. Go check out TUT.com and register for them to send you positive good thoughts to your inbox.

Today we will talk about starting our #WorkOnWellness journey. As we #WorkOnWellness, we are going to change our minds thoughts about what we want. We are going to talk about our goals for wellness

If you have your copy of the Goal Setting Worksheets I mentioned in our previous episode, follow along. If you need them, go to GoalGettingPodcast.com/action and pick them up. Pause the show now and go get them and when you come back we will get started.

OK, you have your worksheets. Let's look at the top of the page. As you see, we have three sections. These are the 3 Keys to Goal Setting Success.

This Goal Achievement Success System tool is designed to help you define The What, The How and The Why for each major goal you will set.

Today we are going to focus on The What - What do you want to achieve?

Did you set New Year's Resolutions? How's that working out for you? At the end of February, most people have already started to forget or quit their New Year's Resolutions. Why?

They didn't set them as goals. They just said they resolved to change or do something. As we get into the 3 Keys to Goal Setting Success, you will start to understand why they don't work.

Defining The What - what you want to achieve requires the following steps from the 9 Steps to Successful Goal Achievement.

1. Write It Down
2. Be Realistic
3. Set A Deadline

Napoleon Hill explained in his book, Think & Grow Rich, that the most successful people of his time had Clearly Defined Written Goals. Most people don't write their goals down.

Most New Year's Resolutions are not written down. Most New Year's Resolutions are not clearly defined. What was your New Year's Resolution? Was it To Lose Weight? Was it To Live A Healthier Lifestyle? Was it to get a new job?

When we write our goals down, when we define The What, we want to use clearly defined speech. We want to be specific about what we want. I like to say "Specific is Terriffic". You will see that on the upper right corner of the worksheets. Specific is the S in SMART goals.

Big Hairy Audacious Goals are important. Your goals should be set outside of your comfort zone. You want to dream big! You want to stretch yourself. You want to make it hard to achieve the goals.

But, you don't want to set unrealistic goals. Realistic is usually a time constraint or an ability constraint. If you set a goal to graduate from college in 1 year, that is probably unrealistic, for most people. Graduating from college is an achievable goal. Graduating in one year without having started any courses is not likely.

Your goals have to be achievable. Be Realistic is the A in SMART Goals as well as the obvious R. To me Realistic and Attainable are essentially the same thing. If they aren't attainable then it's usually unrealistic to assume you can achieve them. If the time frame you set to achieve them isn't a realistic time frame, than they would be unattainable. This is why we have only Be Realistic as one of the 9 Steps.

A dream without a deadline is only a wish! This is the T in SMART goals. T is typically set as Time-bound. You must have a defined time you are going to achieve your goal by. Creating a deadline puts a sense of urgency. It puts a finite end to what you are trying to accomplish. Without a deadline, there is no hurry to achieve. You will get to when you get to it. That's not a goal, that's a wish.

Take out your Goal Setting Worksheet and a pen. Yes, I said a pen. You didn't think you were going to type it in did you?

We want to hand write our goals on the worksheet. We want to hand write them in cursive, in longhand....

I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.

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Today's quote is part of Sir Richard Branson's Top 10 Quotes on Ideas. This quote is from another great Englishman, Sir Winston Churchill.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. – Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was a great orator, leader and statesman. He was the right person for his time. And in his time, he had to have an attitude like this. With the troubles that Great Britain was suffering throughout World War II, it called for open mindedness on all ideas.

Churchill heard many ideas to help with the war effort. I can imagine that all of England was doing everything it could to help. Everyone would want to have the best idea to end the war, or save Britain, or defeat the enemy.

Do you think your ideas are outlandish? Have you stopped thinking about an idea because someone told you it was outlandish?

Well, according to Winston Churchill, all ideas, no matter how outlandish they seem, should be looked at and considered, but with some measurement.

Just because they seem outlandish doesn't mean they won't work.

Many great inventions, or products, or causes were laughed at and ridiculed as being outlandish. Many people that persisted and had the sense to review them, to check them out to look them over with a steady eye are now heroes, wealthy or great.

All because they didn't discount the idea simply because it was outlandish.

Your idea may be outlandish! It may seem far-fetched. It may sound crazy, at first! But, it may also be the next big thing.

Take your outlandish idea and make it into what you think it could be!

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