Secret to a Successful Relationship?

Do you bring kindness and generosity; or contempt, criticism, and hostility,to Your relationship?

Are you constantly scanning your partner for what they are doing right? 
Or scanning them for what they are doing wrong and criticizing?
Versus respecting them and expressing appreciation?

It's kind of obvious when you think about it, and the data backs it up.

Scientific research of thousands of couples was conducted over long periods of time, since the 1970's, by hooking them up to the equivalent of lie detectors to monitor their blood flow, heart rate and sweat, and then monitoring them in their everyday interactions.

Those couples that are constant stressed out physiologically, waiting to attack, or be attacked, are doomed to failure. While those that feel calm and connected with each other have long lasting successful relationships.

Be kind and generous, always.

To your success,
Trevor Long


Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/happily-ever-after/372573/#ixzz3aMn5gvqy

April Fools Planning

I'm not talking about planning your next April Fools prank.

Did you realize that one quarter of the year has just slipped past? 3 full months! How are you going on your goals for this year? Is it "Oh yeah!" or "Oh shoot!"

If it was the latter, then don't abandon all hope, the second best time to get going is now.

Let's start with your major goal for the year. What year is this?

Is it the year of getting fit, losing weight, finding that perfect partner, improving your relationship, getting to a new level in your business or career, or perhaps it's a house renovation, or an investment or educational goal. Whatever it is, just decide. Now I know you have lots of goals. Do this with your major 'theme for the year' goal first, then you can do it for all your other goals too.

The key to getting started is to take the first step.

Now where do you want to be in relation to this goal at the end of the year? Specifically. e.g. I want to weigh 75Kg. Let's say you weigh 90Kg now. You now have a start point and an end point.

Split that into 3, for each of the remaining quarters, and by the end of next quarter, the end of June, you'd need to be at 85Kg to be on track right? You see, this planning stuff is easy, just takes a little time in the beginning, its all fine tuning after that.

Now list 10 things, in general that you need to do to achieve that, eg. cut down on carbs & sugar, drink more water, take the stairs, etc.

How will you measure your progress? List the ways.

Who and what do you have access to, to assist you in achieving your goal?

How will you celebrate hitting this milestone?

Now rewrite your goal for 30th June. e.g. It is now on or before 30th June, and I weigh 85Kg. I know this is the case because I can see it on the scales, my partner tells me I'm looking good, and I feel great!

Now break the target down to one month, then one week, then list your daily actions that you are going to take to achieve your goals. Schedule in your workouts, plan your meals, etc.

At the end of each day review how you went. If you fell off the wagon, get back on again tomorrow.

Plan out each week in advance. At the end of the month, review where you are at, and plan out the next month.

If its working, keep doing it. If it's not working, do something different.

You don't become a success overnight, its small daily rituals that add up to success.

To your success,
Trevor Long

How Long Does Motivation Last?

Unfortunately, not very long.

You go to a seminar, a conference, listen to a motivational speaker, or read a book, or listen to a motivational recording, , you become excited and motivated, pumped up and enthusiastic, but how long does that really last?

Unfortunately not very long. Most people lose their motivation within 2 - 3 days, and a week later they've gone back to their old levels of efficiency and accomplishments.

Sound familiar?

However, sometimes you run into someone that seems to be motivated all the time.

And I believe you know the kind of person I'm talking about. They have a great natural energy, always have a smile on their face, they seem to genuinely enjoy what they are doing. They are highly motivated people.

I don't think that happens by accident.

In fact, when I talk to such people, as I do at every opportunity, I find 2 things.

First, they are usually willing to share what works for them. (Hint - there are no "secrets to success", just ask successful people what they do, then do that. Don't change it, or put your own spin on it, just do it.

Second, they all have something they do on a regular basis, a ritual if you like.

We all have rituals.

Some wake up every morning, grab a coffee, and dread the coming day. Then they get home at night, grab a beer, and settle in for 4 or 5 hours of mind numbing TV.

Of course you would never do that, but what are your rituals, have you ever examined them?

Have you looked at them and said, this is working, and this is not, so I've got to change it now?

Perhaps you could look at your rituals now?

OK, but what are the successful people doing? Well, many things, some meditate, others visualise, others read their goals, or look at their vision boards, or say their affirmations, or plan their day-week-month-quarter-year, or work out, or take a walk in nature, or any number of things.

The key is to find out whats working, and do more of that, and find out whats not working, and change that.

And just in case you didn't get it, YOU need to MOTIVATE YOURSELF Every.Single.Day.

To your success,
Trevor Long

Nick Vujicic-Best Motivational Video

No arms,
no legs,
no worries,
no limits!

What's your excuse? Any one will do.

Or....

You can get inspired, get excited about what's possible for you, and make something happen!

Listen to Nick Vujicic, Tony Robbins, and more, at the National Achievers Congress, and decide now to make it happen for you.

Click here

To your success

Trevor Long

Reject the Rejection

If you are you are going to be successful, you are going to need to learn how to deal with rejection.

Rejection is a natural part of life.

You get rejected from your friends, at school, when you're dating, when applying for jobs, asking for a raise, making sales calls, trying to get a business going, and the list goes on.

In sales, there is a general rule that you have to contact a prospect 7 times before you get to a "yes".

Your life doesn't get worse when you get rejected, it stays the same. So why worry?

If you ask for a raise and you don't get it, you still have your original salary.
If you ask a girl out of a date and she says no, you are no worse off than before.

SWSWSWSW

Some Will, Some Won't So What - Someone's Waiting.

Some people are going to say yes, and some are going to say no. So what?! There is someone out there waiting for you and your ideas. It is simply a numbers game. You have to keep asking until you get to a yes.

Commit to 100 "No's"

Instead looking for that "yes", how about you aim for 100 "No's"?

You might have heard about Colonel Sanders, who was rejected 1009 times before someone accepted his recipe and business proposal? He later went on to have over 18,000 restaurants around the world.

However I've yet to meet anyone personally who has had to receive that many "No's" before getting to Yes.

Whether its committing to 100 cups of coffee to find the right partner, or making 100 sales presentations, everyone I know has got to "YES" before hitting 100 "No's".

Commitment. Persistence.

To your success,
Trevor Long

The Imitation Game

Thank you, Alan Turing.

The Imitation Game is an excellent movie, and an excellent example of having a specific goal, a plan, overcoming obstacles (many of which were people who were on the same team), of perseverance, and of taking inspiration from the cues around us.

When you have a goal and you take massive action towards it, the Universe conspires for your success.

What, or whom, could you be imitating?

To your success,
Trevor Long

The Reason You Don't Succeed - Part 2

Earlier today we said...

The reason you don't succeed is because you are too comfortable.

Recently I came across a classic example of a person not succeeding because he was too comfortable, and then through necessity, turning it all around.

The young man's parents were getting on in years, and were moving out of the city to retire in the country, while the young man had to stay and finish his higher education.

His mother did everything for him, and provided him with the necessities of life, but not an extravagant lifestyle by any means.

When I saw her recently, she was so happy that her son had finally got motivated. He had got himself a job, had been learning to wash and iron clothes, and learning how to cook some basic dishes.

She couldn't see the reason for the sudden turn around in his attitude and fortunes, but really its a classic case of  'the stomach and the backbone'. 

To paraphrase Newton and Zig Ziglar - "A person at rest will remain at rest until his stomach hits his back bone!"

In this case, the young man was smart enough to get moving before the crunch came, and luckily he had a lot of encouragement from his friends.

The crunch could come in many forms. A financial setback, losing your job, a stock market crash, losing a partner, a heart attack, etc.

The key here is to look far enough ahead and visualise what might happen if you don't take action now, attach so much pain to that event, and then start taking actions to avoid the inevitable.

To your success,
Trevor Long

The Reason You Don't Succeed

The reason you don't succeed is because you are too comfortable.
Elena Alexandrova-Long

Choices, Choices...

The Buddhist Monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, talks of choices taking you towards or away from your spirit.

I like to say that we are faced with choices every moment, that take you towards or away from your goals.

Mars Bar or apple?
Coke or water?
Read or watch TV?
Exercise or watch TV?
Make that call, or procrastinate?
Say something nice to your partner, or ignore them, or worse?

Most of the choices we face, and there are thousands every day, are very simple.

The choices you make in each moment lead you.

To your success,
Trevor Long

Experience Is A Great Teacher...

...But Let It Be Someone Else's!

80% of small business fail within the first year, and 95% fail within 5 years. Horrifying statistics.

How do you increase your chances of success?

Well apart from doing all the things suggested on this blog...

Get some High Level Mentoring, and create a Mastermind Group.

Find an expert who has been there and done that, someone who's done it all before, and been successful at it. 

Don't reinvent the wheel.

What will it cost you, in time and money, if you have to make all the mistakes yourself, before you learn how to do it profitably?

You might have to pay handsomely for your mentor, but it will be surely worth it.

That brings us to the Mastermind group. 

Surround yourself with people who are experts in all the areas you are weak in.
Take property investment for example, something I am passionate about.

In my first attempt at property investment, I had the idea that I could do it all myself. I'd read the books, been to the seminars, it seemed easy. Well I bought at least one dud property that cost me years of heartache, and probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. I also left a lot of money on the table by not structuring loans properly, not getting depreciation reports, etc. etc.

Luckily I had the opportunity to start all over again. I know a few people who either went bankrupt, or died way too early, from (I hallucinate) the stress caused by bad investments.

Second time around I got a mentor, someone who had done it all before, and was continuing to do it. And I surrounded myself with experts, a mastermind group. I got someone to find the locations, someone to manage the building contractors, a lawyer to handle the legals, a mortgage broker to handle the loans, people to manage the properties, and an accountant to make sure I'm reducing my tax and have the proper financial structures in place. These weren't the cheapest people I could find, they were the best. What do I do, you might be asking? I check my bank accounts once a month, and answer the occasional email from the real estate agent.

I've never been inside my properties, and I don't intend to, that's what I pay the real estate agent to do. If I have any questions or challenges, I pick up the phone and call one of my mastermind group. They deal with investment properties every day. They have the answers. They've done it all before.

Similarly in my business, I surround myself with experts. If I have questions on how to put a package together, or promote a seminar, etc. I call or email a few people, discuss what I want to do, and listen to their advice. I don't try to re-invent the wheel. Yes I'm smart and I could probably figure it out myself eventually. But the really smart way is to find out what has already worked and do that. Once I know how to do that, maybe I can make it better.

Be smart. Get a Mentor. Get a Mastermind Group.

To your success,
Trevor Long

Train Your Brain For Success

Just as its easier to learn a new sport when your body is in shape, the same is true for our brains.

Whether it's learning a new skill, or starting a new business venture, it will be much easier when your brain is fit and healthy.

If your brain is in poor condition, you will have a hard time training it for success.

However, if you keep your brain running at an optimal performance rate then teaching it to start thinking like a success becomes a much easier task.

Let's look at a few areas we can focus on to improve our brain health. 

Improve your physical health
The condition of your body affects the condition of your brain. Keeping your brain active is a great way to guard against mind slip but studies have shown that without regular exercise, extra stimulation doesn't have an effect on our brain health.
You are both mind and body. Both need to be used and kept in shape. 

Improve your diet
The foods we eat have a huge impact on how we feel, perform, and even how well our brains perform. I highly recommend that you study the work of Dr Daniel Amen, who has studied over 80,000 living brains, for a more in depth of all things to do with brain health, especially brain diet.

Improve your sleep
Sleep helps restore the brain by flushing out toxins that build up during waking hours.
 We all know sleep is important, but do we know why? Sleep is crucial for storing memories, as well as having a restorative function. Lack of sleep on the other hand can impair reasoning, interfere with your ability to problem solve, and diminish your ability to pay attention to detail.
As a frequent international flyer, I can attest that a lack of sleep has very similar effects to being drunk.
Studies even show that lack of sleep can cause your brain to shrink. Not good for training a successful brain.

How can you get a better sleep?
Well, it can be as easy as picking up an eye mask and some ear plugs.Light and noise can negatively affect your quality of sleep.
Cut out caffeine after 1pm.
Turn off your email, Facebook, phone, etc at least an hour before bedtime.
Write down all your tasks and ideas for tomorrow, that way they are not bouncing around your brain all night.
List your gratitudes as you drift off to sleep. You cannot be stressed or anxious if you are in a state of gratitude.

Take care of yourself to have the best chance of reaching your success goals. 

Obviously physical and brain health is a huge topic, and a very important topic, this blog post can barely scratch the surface. I highly recommend you make physical and brain health a top goal, and
do your own research, get a coach who specialises in this area, see a chiropractor, a dietitian or naturopath, etc.

To your success,
Trevor Long

Do You Understand Your Market?

No matter how good you are at what you do, without paying clients, you won't be doing it very long!

Love it or hate it, there comes a time when you have to do sales and marketing, which are two very different subjects.

Let's talk about market research, and how if done correctly, can be the ace up your sleeve.

You can use market research to find out where trends are going, and stay ahead of the game.

For example, perhaps you are personal trainer that wants to work with teens, but you find all your clients are middle aged males. Would you still concentrate your marketing efforts towards teens?

One of the first things to do is a Competitive Analysis of successful businesses in a similar field as your own. If you are currently a one man band, still look at what the big companies are doing.

This will allow you get a good look at what it is they are doing to reach those levels of success. There is much to learn from this process.

Also look on Youtube.com, search for your topic, and sort by most viewed, this will show you what is popular and trending. I'm no fitness coach, but you would have to be living under a rock not to see that 'cross-fit' (whatever that is!) is becoming hugely popular. If you are still trying to promote calisthenics, you might just find yourself losing market share.

What’s working for others that could work for you? 
What has not worked in your industry that you can avoid? 

Make sure you are not so focused on your business that you forget to come up for air and survey whats going on around them, or even survey your own clients.

Once you have done your research, use the power of visualisation to create your own simulations of how making different decisions will affect your business.

It's not only athletes that use visualisation as part of their training regime, musicians do it to get ready for performances, and you can do it to for your business. Your coach can assist you with this.

The idea is to visualise your outcome and walk through the steps it will take to get to where you want to be. 

Visualise your business operating at the levels it needs to be to hit your desired level of success.

What do you need to be doing differently or more proficiently?

Spend some time seeing yourself doing it. Then your body will have an easy task of playing catch up, instead of having to figure everything out on its own.

If you haven't already done so, work out your customer avatar - your ideal average client.

Using the example of the fitness coach above, perhaps his could be male, 35-45yo, married, executive or business owner earning over $80Kpa, keen to live a healthy active lifestyle.

Actions To Take:

• Define your Avatar
• Block off at least an hour a week to do market research
• Do a competitive analysis of success businesses in the same field as your own.
• Analyse the data.
• Wrtie down ideas as they come to you.
• Visualise how you would use those ideas.
• TEST - try a new idea,
• FAIL FASTER - try a new idea every week and notice what works.

Yes, I said fail. Not everything you do will work, but don't keep flogging a dead horse, keep trying new things until you find the ideas that work.

To your success,
Trevor Long

Develop and Expand Your Inner Circle

You must have heard the the rule of "Your net worth is the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

By following this principle, you can raise your level of success simply by surrounding yourself with successful people and/or millionaires.

Sounds easy enough right? But how do you go about finding millionaires, or whoever it is that you you want in your life, want to emulate, to grow to be like?  

Take a moment now to check in with yourself to review your inner circle.

Do they have the income and or wealth that you desire?

Do they have the relationships that you crave?

Do they have the health and body shape that you want?

Do they have the skills you wish to acquire?

Do they have the lifestyle you aspire to?

We are continually evolving and need to continually review of who and what we bring into our lives. This doesn’t mean you have to drop all your old friends, however, it is sometimes necessary to remove negative influences that bring you down.

Don't be a S.N.I.O.P!

First, you need a target to aim for.

Make a list of 20 wealthy and/or successful people you want as a part of your inner circle. Maybe people you have not thought of yet...

Once you have your list, determine 2-3 people who inspire you and focus on making a connection with them, right away.

You must become intentional about creating new, beneficial relationships.

Reading about someone's success, and how they achieved it is extremely beneficial, but being able to pick up the phone and make a call, or send an email, or go for coffee, is way better.

One way to do this is to think of the most successful person in your community. Now think of how you can make a connection with them...

What clubs are they apart of? What events do they attend? What charities do they sponsor? These are all great opportunities to make a connection and break the ice.

When reaching out always remember to provide value. No one likes to feel like they are being used, or to be pestered by someone who wants something for nothing.

Spend some time focused on making new connections that will help you reach your success goals. This will be time well spent, and could lead to new lifelong friendships, and even partnerships.

This is not about finding a mentor or coach. We’ll cover in a future blog.

Go and meet and connected with even more people… YES! More! We can never have too large of a network, especially in this “small world.” You just never know what will come of one connection that you make at one event. (Consider this a "kick in the pants" to get crack'in on your network expansion for 2015!).

How is this relevant to your future success? Well, a successful brain is trained to constantly expand and evolve. It’s never too shy to reach out and make new connections with people of influence.

Like they say… “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

I once attended a free seminar that was selling speaker training. I had no intention of buying the training, however the guy I was sitting next to turned into a business partner. It was certainly worth going out of my way to meet new people.

So right now in this moment, sit up taller, shine your confidence forth to the world, act from where you want to be, and the next time you go to an event, approach those people who you may have turned away from introducing yourself to in the past because you didn’t feel confident enough.

Step into your power. Step into the knowing that you are already successful.

To your success,

Trevor Long

OWN Your Topic

Once you have read 20 books on a topic you OWN that topic.

It's true. But how many people do it? Not many.

But guess what? Successful people do. Millionaires do. And so will you.

It's so easy to get started, with services from Amazon & Kindle, The Book Depository, etc. You can also pickup magazines on your topic, though the content is often not as in depth.

It’s even easier to take in great audio book through services like Audible. There are also video programs, or you can watch The History channel or The Biography channel for biographies.

But how often do you actually take the time to consume GOOD content?

Make sure that you’re taking the time to read about the things you actually want in your life.

Order a new book, or subscribe to a magazine that directly pertains to where you want to go and how you want to show up in the world. 

Instead of watching a movie, or the tennis, or a soap, or another series, watch a biography this weekend of an amazing person whose success you want to emulate.

Australians on average watch about 3 hours TV a day!

It’s time to get serious about your self-study. Knowledge is power.

Go online and find a book list on your topic.

Read what the giants who have gone before you wrote to create that which you most want to have & experience in life. It's that easy. Success leaves clues. They wrote them in books.

If you have read everything on the book list, fantastic! Read them again. Cover to cover.

If you haven't read them. Get moving, get reading.

Read for 15 mins before bed. This will fill your subconscious with good stuff that it can go to work on while you sleep.

If there are questions to answer, or exercises to do, (very common in self development books), go to a cafe, and spend some time just for yourself to answer the questions, and go through the exercises. Don't worry about getting it right, just get words on the paper, do it quickly, you can always refine it later, it's more important to get it flowing.

Start applying what you read.

Share and teach what you have read, it will make it so much more clear for you, and embed it even deeper.

Then watch your success take off.

To your success,

Trevor Long

Off the Court

The Australian Open Tennis Championships are dominating the media and conversations this Australia Day.

Just like any major sporting event, we see the best of the best of the best of the best congregate to do battle.

With the exception of one player, all of the players in to the top 8 Men's singles are in the top 10 ranked players in the world.

The cream floats to the top.



We look at what they do on the court and are impressed with their skills and determination.

But what about what they are doing off the court? How did they get to enter such competitions in the first place?

Well, the majority of them started very young, they played, they persisted and continued playing.

They traveled away from home over 30 weeks a year, and spent another 15 or so in off season training. They shared rooms with other players, they ate junk because that was all they could afford, yet they had a dream, goals, and they persisted.

And even when they've 'made it', they are still training about 4 hours a day, even when they have a grueling match. They've got strength training, endurance training, and that's on top of tennis training.

There are no overnight successes. There is no success without hard work and commitment.

What are you doing 'off the court'?

To your success,
Trevor Long

Keep Trying!

Well said, Nelson Mandela.

As a coach I often have the conversation about "Trying", and I always quote Yoda - "Do, or do not. There is not try."

However, I'm prepared to let Nelson off the hook on his language this time, as the wisdom of the quote is worth noting.

No one is perfect. 
No one. So you don't have to be, and since no one is perfect, what's stopping you?

Failure is part of success.
In NLP we say "There is no failure, only feedback."
Well, that's right. And still sometimes it feels like we have failed. You tried and it didn't work.
Big deal!
Do it again, or do it again differently. Keep doing (or trying if you must) until you can do it.
You didn't walk perfectly first time, you probably fell over more times than you can remember, but once you learned to walk that didn't matter.
You were really bad when you first started driving a car.
If you've ever learnt to play an instrument, you were terrible at the beginning.
Could you touch type the first time you saw a keyboard?
Could you stand up and ride a wave on a surfboard the first time?

Whatever it is you are trying to achieve, if you didn't succeed the first time, why is that a surprise to you? Keep doing until you can.

To your success,
Trevor Long

10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Part 10 - Ideal Day

10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Part 10

What is your ideal day?

The final step!

Take your different goals and design them into your ideal day. Think about it.

We are talking about your ideal average day here, not lying on a tropical beach with a cocktail in hand. Sure that can be a dream vacation, but you would get bored pretty quickly if that was your life everyday.

Who are the people around you?

What are the things you have?

Where are the places you will go?

How good you feel,?

Go into it in exquisite minute detail. Turn up the VAK, make it big and bright and appealing.

Make it right.

Make it so it feels really good.

What is it that lets you know you are successful?


You have successfully completed the 10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Congratulations!

How are those goals looking now?

At Get Centred, we are always here to assist you on your journey.

To your success,
Trevor Long

10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Part 8 - Obstacles

10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Part 8

What are your obstacles?

Whats likely to get in the way of achieving your goal? 

Think of the obstacles.

Write them down.

Think about ways to overcome them, before they happen.

Clients often come to me for coaching with a problem, e.g.

I want to go on holiday, but I can't afford it.
I want to earn more money, but I don't have the skills.
I want to eat healthier, but I can't because I'm always tempted by sweets.

Can you see what each of them have in common?

"I want my goal, but my obstacle is in the way".

Yes, "my" obstacle, people can get very attached to them. It's funny how people can get so attached to something that doesn't really exist, except in their own imagination.

A simple way to eliminate obstacles

Include the obstacle!

How does that work, I hear you ask? OK, lets look at the 3 examples again, this time we'll include the obstacle:

I want to go on holiday that costs more than I have available.
I want to earn more money with the skills I have.
I want to eat healthier regardless of my desire for sweets.

It's a subtle change in language, but it's immensely powerful psychologically.

When you say "I can't afford it", it's a dead end. When you say "it costs more than I have available", the mind immediately asks the question "How can I have more money available?" And it will find a way.

"Earn more money with the skills I have.." Hmmmm, well I could...

"Eat healthier"... Sure I could eat healthy meals, and still have the occasional sweet. That's got to be better than eating crap all the time...

By knowing what they are in advance, it will be easier to overcome them.

Its like having the benefit of hindsight before you encounter them.

To your success,
Trevor Long

10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Part 6 - Is it Appropriate?

10 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GOAL SETTING - PART 6

Is it Appropriate?

Ask yourself:

Is it good for me, good for others, good for the planet and good for the greater good?

Is it something under your control, and not relying on others to change themselves to make you happy?

It should be something that you can control. 

It should be your goal, not your parents, not society, not what TV and adverts are telling you, yours, and yours alone.

If it's not, consider revising it.

To your success,

Trevor Long

10 Steps to Successful Goal Setting - Part 5 - How Will You Know?

10 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL GOAL SETTING - PART 5

How will you know when you've achieved your goal?

Do you have a day to day method for measuring if you are on course?

Financial Goals - This is one of the easiest to track, an amount of money in an account, a certain income, a certain passive income, gross income, net worth, number or value of shares or properties, etc.

Health Goals - Weight, dress size, body fat, heart rate, distance walked, ran, cycled or swam, number of reps, weight lifted, food and alcohol intake, medicines reduced or eliminated, etc.

Relationship Goals - This one is a little more tricky. Once you define your ideal partner, their attributes, characteristics, values, then you can say whether this one is on target or not. If its family and friends, then how will you related to them, how often, etc.

Lifestyle Goals - This is things like houses, cars, holidays, hobbies. Are you living in your ideal house, driving your dream car, taking as many holidays, pursuing your hobbies as often as you like, etc.

Define a way to measure if you are on course to achieve your goal.

Determine your signposts to success on the way, smaller goals or steps.

What will you see, hear, feel, smell and taste, when you have reached each of your intermediate goals and targets?

Celebrate when you do! How are you going to celebrate?

Phew! We are now half way through the 10 step process. More involved in goal setting than you thought?

How long to do you spend planning a 2 week holiday?

How long do you think the pilot and airline have spent planning for your international flight, or do you reckon they just 'wing it'? (Pun intended!) By the way, did you know a plane is off course 99% of the time? The autopilot makes continuous measurements and adjustments to the course to get the plane to its destination.

How long does the architect spend planning a multi-story building?

If you are hoping its a considerable amount of time, then you'd be correct.

This is your life we are talking about here, spend a bit of time sorting out a direction to head in, a plan to get there, reasons why you are going, and a way of knowing you are on track.

To your success,
Trevor Long