Doors are going to open. You just have to believe that they will. As a professional speaker, I know a lot of well known speakers. It's because I'm some big shot who is so great and prestigious? No! it's because I took the time to build relationships with them over the years. Now, if I ever want to do something in an unfamiliar field, then I will simply list the speakers or other people I know who might open a door for me in that field and then get in touch with them. Don't think about it, just do it. Take a seat and list the people who could help you achieve your goal. Who has already done it? Who has already blazed the trail? Who has already unlocked the door? Learn from those people, and don't ever get caught reinventing the wheel.
Develop Your Plan
You have gotten specific. You have a purpose. You have listed other people who can help you. Now it is time to make your plan. Here comes another question to ask yourself: Which steps should I take to reach my goals? Will any plan get you there? No, in fact, most people plan the incorrect way. They decide what it is that they would like to achieve, and then they look up the mountain and say, "Oh boy. Look at all of these steps I have to take. What do I do now?" Then they get confused, perhaps even paralyzed, and talk themselves out of trying.
There's a way to take the fear out of that first step utilizing a technique called Future Perfect Planning, which they teach at Harvard Business School. Even though Future Perfect Planning is starting to be used more in business today, the idea is still far from mainstream. That's a shame because it works so much better than traditional planning.
Future Perfect Planning tells you to shift your thinking to the future perfect tense, which is the verb tense utilized to describe an action that is going to be completed in the future. You do this by deciding on a fixed date at some point in the future, and then begin working back from that point in your mind to find how you arrived there. Studies suggests that this model of planning is very effective. Whenever you take a goal and place it in the past tense as if it's already happened, you describe it more accurately and concretely than when you look ahead to the same goal. It also helps get rid of some of the fear of the unknown.
Once you practice Future Perfect Planning, you'll be amazed. Here's how it works: If your goal is to climb to the top of Mount Fuji, you should first place yourself as the end result as if you've already achieved it. Visualize yourself at the top of the mountain, and then look down and say:
"What was the step right before I got to the top?"
"What was the step before that?"
"And what was the step right before that?"
You go backwards back down that mountain, so you can see it from the end right back to the beginning. When you get back down to the bottom in your mind, just turn around and start working your plan.
Develop Your Plan
You have gotten specific. You have a purpose. You have listed other people who can help you. Now it is time to make your plan. Here comes another question to ask yourself: Which steps should I take to reach my goals? Will any plan get you there? No, in fact, most people plan the incorrect way. They decide what it is that they would like to achieve, and then they look up the mountain and say, "Oh boy. Look at all of these steps I have to take. What do I do now?" Then they get confused, perhaps even paralyzed, and talk themselves out of trying.
There's a way to take the fear out of that first step utilizing a technique called Future Perfect Planning, which they teach at Harvard Business School. Even though Future Perfect Planning is starting to be used more in business today, the idea is still far from mainstream. That's a shame because it works so much better than traditional planning.
Future Perfect Planning tells you to shift your thinking to the future perfect tense, which is the verb tense utilized to describe an action that is going to be completed in the future. You do this by deciding on a fixed date at some point in the future, and then begin working back from that point in your mind to find how you arrived there. Studies suggests that this model of planning is very effective. Whenever you take a goal and place it in the past tense as if it's already happened, you describe it more accurately and concretely than when you look ahead to the same goal. It also helps get rid of some of the fear of the unknown.
Once you practice Future Perfect Planning, you'll be amazed. Here's how it works: If your goal is to climb to the top of Mount Fuji, you should first place yourself as the end result as if you've already achieved it. Visualize yourself at the top of the mountain, and then look down and say:
"What was the step right before I got to the top?"
"What was the step before that?"
"And what was the step right before that?"
You go backwards back down that mountain, so you can see it from the end right back to the beginning. When you get back down to the bottom in your mind, just turn around and start working your plan.
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