I attended the Timpanogos storytelling meeting for the month of January. We had a very good presentation on how to achieve goals. Stephanie always gives a good presentation. Tonight, he stated, that there are five steps as she is found great success in achieving our goals.

1. Create an image in your mind that moves you to action.

• Imagine what it feels like use all the senses imagine that experience of success. Stephanie had the goal to play the guitar so she created an image with the guitar that she can put on her phone or someone she can access frequently to remind her.
• You can also print it and put it on your fridge or mere.

• The visual image has more power than words.
• Warning, be careful not to create too many goals to achieve at the same time. You’ll want to choose a goal that creates passion in your heart. If the goal doesn’t create passion within you, then put that goal away to be achieved later. You need to choose a goal that excites you and continues to excite you.
• Information a goal like a seed you plant it to grow when you put it back in the seed bag to nurture later.
• You may need to be flexible on your goal. An exciting goal will be seen as you nurture that goal and like a seed, it begins to swell in growth. It feels good.
• Let your goal like a seed and the starts to swell it feels good.

2. Piggybacking:

• A lot of times you can have better success on a goal when you can find an individual that  has a similar goal or shared goal that you could work with as a partner. You can be accountable to each other. You want to be a positive support and encourage each other.
• An alternative is to piggyback on a certain time. For example, the Stephanie she had a child had to do certain homework at a certain time of day. In that time while the child did the homework she practiced guitar. Another storyteller told of her experience that every time she came in from the house for guitar was by the door and she would price with a certain amount of time at least once a day.
• You could just devote 15 minutes a day for your goal.

3. We weed it:

• What is the consequence of growing plants? As the plants grow often weeds will grow beside the plant. Weeds often grow quickly be small on one day and seemed to grow large suddenly the next day. The weeds represent negative thoughts.
• As an object lesson, she told us of what she has done it in her household as an experiment. She tried this for her household. She cooked rice and put it into two different containers rice into different containers. One container was labeled native-language. The rice represents our words or self-talk. It might be different types of name-calling. Calling someone stupid, or other complaints among siblings within a family. You direct all those comments toward the sealed jar that’s labeled negatively. And the second jar you label is positive. For family situation, this might be a compliment to a family member one encouragement of how good they do something all the positive comments are directed to the positive jar. You try to achieve goals this example might be the self-language that you give to yourself. You talk about yourself being stupid incapable or other such insults but you direct those words to the native jar. Then you direct your positive thoughts your successes and accomplishments of accounting part of a goal to war the positive jar. The observation was been made multiple times that the rice that is in the positive jar seems to be preserved in a better condition than the rice in the negative jar. The negative jars of rice deteriorated faster. This object lesson is an excellent example of the power of words in a positive way or
• The observation has been made multiple people who have tried this experiment, that the rice that is in the positive jar seems to be preserved in a better condition than the rice in the negative jar. The negative jars rice deteriorates faster. This object lesson is an excellent example of the power of words in a positive way or negative.
• Some people will put negative words into Journal but then they will attach to each negative thought a positive consequence. For example, I didn’t practice the full 15 minutes of the guitar but I did do seven minutes of the guitar. This would point out that there was some success achieved and not to beat up yourself up about it another example might be that you try to achieve something it didn’t work but at least you tried and not but is included on the negative thought. Give yourself credit for each time you have success partial or full success.

4: Wait for it, wait for it, wow:

• Stephanie gave another example where we can work on goals a bit at a time. Like cutting little away slices off a paper. It doesn’t seem significant the bit by bit until we see the end result.
• As an object lesson to start cutting away the little notches of a snowflake. A Nick here and make their each working toward a goal there and you wait for it and finally wow that snowflake is completely created for your goal has been achieved and you wow because you did your success.
• As you grow things will move to support you in your goals. One person made a comparison of this to the documentary called the secret. Where you get positive energy related to your goals.

5: Celebrate it.

• When you achieve your goal, share the joy with others family and friends to let them know what you’ve achieved. You have planted your tree you nurtured your tree you prevented weeds from overtaking the tree and now the tree is bearing fruit take a bite of that delicious fruit savored the juices and enjoy the fruit that you have helped create. Call friends and tell them of the success.
• Some filmmakers will create a list of smaller tasks that can work to what the bigger tasks. Others will just have the image of the overall goal and just do things it feels good at the moment to get the old toward the goal and you followed the promptings of your heart.
• God says that after each day of creation quote it is good”.
• Well in popularity do not mean that you will always succeed. There can always be someone better at what you do. Each of us can continue to do better in no way.
• Document your successes or your goals as if they have already happened past tense not future. In this mindset will let it be a reality.
• Your brain can only believe when you tell it.
• You can produce more together than alone.

Do you have something to add to the topic such as what has worked for you in achieving goals? Please feel free to share in the comment section of this blog.