lululemon athletica taught me everything you could ever want to know about goal setting and personal success. Here are just 7 tips to help you achieve your dreams.

1. 7 Effective Ways To Support Your Goals Today
http://www.wiggmanscoaching.com/7- ways- to- support- your- goals/ April 1, 2013
When choosing to pursue your goals there can be an
overwhelming amount of advice and techniques to deal
with. Today’s post is going to focus on 7 easy ways to
boost your goal setting effectiveness.
1. Stop seeking approval from people.
You don’t need anyone’s permission to fulfill your dream,
not your parents, friends or boss. Trust yourself and give
yourself permission to succeed. Having support from
people whose opinion you value is great as long as you are not allowing them to
decide what is best for you. Only you know that.
If you really desire to turn your goal into reality, constantly seeking the approval of
other people will waste your time and kill your dream. What will happen to your
goals if you don’t get the approval of those whose permission you so desperately
need? Nothing unless you make something happen!
2. Don’t wait for the perfect time.
Waiting for a time when everything is perfect before you start to action your goals
will cause you to lose your enthusiasm and abandon your pursuit. You will actually
quit before you ever started. The conditions in your life will never be as perfect as
you desire so just start taking action.
You may never have all the money, time, or knowledge you want to begin working
on your goals but you will have all the time, money and knowledge you desire after
you start working on your goals.
You must take risks, learn and improve as you go along and then watch as
everything begins to fall in place. If you have to wait for the perfect time to begin
working on your goals you will be waiting a long time!
3. Create time for the goal.
Many people have goals which remain unfulfilled because they are too busy doing
everything but working on the goal! You must be ready to invest your time and
energy to ensure that you succeed.
Making excuses about lacking the time to work on goals that are important to you

2. Making excuses about lacking the time to work on goals that are important to you
is procrastination, plain and simple. Procrastination will kill your dream before it
has a chance to see the light of day. Always make time to work on what you love
and consider important. If you feel this is impossible start tomorrow by taking just
10 minutes to work towards your goal!
Read what you need to learn, go for a walk to start losing weight or listen to an
audio tape. Hey why not educate yourself while you walk with audio. See how
easy it is to work your goals into your night.
4. Decide once and for all!
The process of goal accomplishment, like most things in life begins with a
decision. You decide what you want to achieve, then you plan how and then you
go get what you want.
When you find a goal that is important, you will be compelled to take action. If
you are experiencing the feeling of indecision then the goal you set may not be
what you really want to do. Make up your mind and stop second-guessing
yourself. When you find a passionate goal nothing can stop you from taking action
and making progress.
5. Take the initiative.
You are the one in charge of turning your dreams to reality. You decided on the
goal, now just take the initiative and get involved in the process of working on
your goals. Start asking people for help and sharing it with people you trust.
Remember just because you have been sharing your ideas with others does not
necessarily mean that you are no longer responsible for turning them to reality.
Don’t sit around waiting for others to make suggestions and guide your idea to
reality. You have to do the work to succeed at this and nobody really cares about
your dream like you do.
6. Invest in your dream.
Money doesn’t buy you happiness but it can buy you knowledge. Research and
ask around as to who the experts are in your industry and consider investing in
coaching from them. A great coach can save you months of time trying to figure
something out that they could have just shown you.
If you have an idea that needs money like a business or invention don’t be
deceived into thinking that people will invest or finance your idea just because you
believe it is brilliant. If you are lucky, someone may invest in it, but you will most
likely have to invest your time, energy and finances first.

3. Don’t let money hold you back from starting though. Ask the people you know
who they may know that can help you learn what is needed. People are inherently
generous and you may find someone willing to lend you a hand or at the very least
point you in the right direction. If you tell the right people who knows the money
may show up.
7. Do one thing at a time.
You are going to have multiple goals that all require your attention but trying to
work on more than one at a time will lead to no goals being worked on. Commit
yourself to focusing your energies on the current goal at hand. If you are at the
gym be 100% at the gym and not texting or making notes about work.
Be as strict with yourself at your personal goals as you would be at your career.
Would you while in the middle of your presentation bust out 25 push ups followed
by some burpees? Probably not because you want to succeed at your career. So
why would you do it to your goal of being physically in shape?
To get started on achieving your goals, you need to plan for them and make them
a priority. If you keep crowding and cluttering your life with what does not matter,
you many never, ever accomplish your goals.
Remember that you can’t work on each goal each day and you can be
comfortable with that knowing tomorrow you have a chance to work on the next
one.
Take Action Request:
I want you reflect on your life and see where you may be living it to get the
approval of someone. Who is it and what do you feel you are sacrificing to get
their approval? Bookmark this post so you can tackle the other 6 another day.
Your Life Your Choice Your Design
Darrin Wiggins
Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don’t feel
motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.
Persistence will ultimately provide its own motivation. If you simply
keep taking action, you’ll eventually get results, and results can be
very motivating.” – Zig Ziglar