I didn’t have anything planned for a post today until I clicked onto Dave Navarro’s Wealth Blog – Million Dollar Leverage.

Dave has written an absolutely fabulous post about “The Wrong Way To Think about Your Goals (And How To Fix It)”

Here’s a tidbit, but do head on over and digest the full article. Better yet spend some time surfing his site. It is one of my favorites.

Excerpt From Article

If you want to really boost the level of motivation and satisfaction you get out of taking massive action to make your goals happen, think from your goals, not about your goals. Imagine that the goal you’re after is inevitable, that you’re going to have it eventually no matter what. In fact, imagine that you have it right now. Identify with it. Act from it.

Here are some examples:

• If you’re telling yourself you’ll save money “one day” when you have more, start saving now – even if it’s $1 a week. Instead of saying you’ll be a saver someday, do it now, and you’ll have ten times the motivation to take actions that will let you put more money away every week.
• Conversely, if you want to pay off debt faster, don’t wait until you have more money. Pay $1 more per payment this month. See yourself as being a debt destroyer now, and you’ll take more action to accelerate the pace.
• If you’re a blogger, don’t tell yourself you’ll write more when you have a larger audience. Imagine you have that larger audience now and act the way you would if you had 1,000 people a day reading your site. You likely soon will.
• If you want to lose weight, don’t tell yourself that you need to lose 30 pounds. Ram it into your head that deep inside, you are the kind of person who is supposed to be 30 pounds lighter. Identify with that, and you’ll boost your motivation now to do the things that will help you lose weight.
• If you are building a business and are just starting out, imagine yourself as an authority in the field, and immerse your thinking in the mindset that you’d have if you were already there. Take action now like you’d take it then.

This isn’t positive thinking or some law of attraction nonsense. This is about making a shift in psychology where you view yourself as already having the result, and so you act according to it. It’s the same technique Olympic athletes use when they visualize winning. Once they make that picture in their minds of winning the event, and they make it vivid enough, everything they do supports making that happen. They don’t say “I want to win …” and just hope it goes well. They say,“I am a winner,” and their body and mind work together to match their results with their perception.

End of Excerpt – Now Head On Over To: “The Wrong Way To Think about Your Goals (And How To Fix It)” You’ll be glad you took the time to read it all.