GPS. You are probably
most familiar with GPS as in Global Positioning
System. The wonderful and innovative system
that helps you get from where you are to where
you want to be. That’s what got me thinking.
If GPS can give you directions to travel to
your chosen destination why can’t we use
GPS to achieve the things we want? Hence, GPS
for success was born.
You are likely thinking
“Success in three simple steps,”
ha! That just seems too good to be true. This
is one time when that’s not the case.
If you do these three simple steps I guarantee
you will get what you want. All you have to
do is a little thinking, writing and take some
action.
The first step to
getting what you want is knowing what you want.
That is the G in GPS. Goals. If you don’t
know where you want to go, you will end up somewhere
else. There are three things you must do in
the goal setting phase. You must write your
goals down. You must state them as a positive
and state them in the present tense. One way
to do this is to write I AM… and write
what you want as if you already have it. Something
like, “I AM a world famous self help author
and motivational speaker that regularly appears
on Oprah.” It’s clear, it’s
positiveand it’s in the present tense.
Now it’s your turn. Grab a pen and a piece
of paper and write your goals.
Step two is plan.
Make a plan. This is where most people lose
their momentum. So often, we get lost in the
what to do next phase. “How do I make
my goals happen?” This is where you make
a plan. Not only do you make a plan but you
break it down into daily bite size pieces. Tiny
little things you can do each and every day
to end up at your goal over time. Here is a
quick example. When I was in the mortgage business
making a million a year that didn’t happen
by accident. I knew about half of the loans
that come in the door will end up funding in
any one month. Therefore, I needed to bring
in twice the number of loans than what I wanted
to close. So, I would take my yearly goal and
divide it by 12. These are how many loans I
needed to close on average each month. Each
month, I’d take that number and divide
it by the number of business days in the month.
Then I would multiply by 2 which would tell
me how many loans I needed to bring in every
day. That is making a plan. If I thought about
how I was going to bring in a hundred loans
in a month I would have been overwhelmed. Instead,
I sat down came up with a plan and diced it
up into daily bite size steps. You already know
your goal, now go make a plan!
The last step is
surmounting fear. So many, so often let fear
get in the way of getting what they want. Most
of the time we are afraid of things that aren’t
even real. Sure fear feels real, but many times
it’s not. Here’s the thing there
are two types of fears. Real fears and fake
fears. That’s it. Real fears are ones
that could cause you physical harm or death.
Fake fears only exist in your head. Fake fears
are things like fear of failure, success, rejection,
etc. There is no such thing as failure. You
may not have gotten the results that you wanted
so you learned what worked or didn’t work
and make adjustments and try again. Same goes
for rejection. If someone doesn’t want
you, or what you have to offer, you aren’t
going to die or have physical harm by asking.
If they say no, then move onto the next. Are
you going to let a fake fear, something that
doesn’t exist, get in the way of getting
what you want? The choice is yours. Whose stronger,
you or a fake fear?
Those are the three
simple steps to success. Just follow GPS to
end up where you want to be.
About
the Author:
Sharmen
Lane is an Author,
professional
speaker, radio
host, and self
improvement expert. She
has trained, managed, and coached thousands
of individuals on what it takes to get what
they want. Sharmen
offers you step-by-step solutions
to everyday problems that complicate our lives.
Sharmen wrote the book titled “The
7 Secrets to Create Your Fate”, which
is a personal growth, self development book
written to give everyone who reads it the motivation,
inspiration and determination to go after what
they want with passion. For more self
help resources and seminar
speaker topics, visit www.sharspeaks.com.
