It’s 2007! How To Achieve The Success You Want In 2007

Happy New Year!

Here’s an important New Year’s Message…

Happy New Year!
Hi, it’s Shawn Casey and I am excited to wish you a happy New Year.

This is gonna be your year, 2007, and you’ll gonna just take away all the stops, take off the brakes and just blow it out. It’s gonna be absolutely the most kick butt year you’ve ever had and so, let me be the first to welcome you to your bright new future. If you heard yesterday’s message, you know you should have been thinking, “the future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades”. Well folks, here’s the future; welcome to it, put those sunglasses on right now because I’m telling you, this is gonna be great. It’s gonna be so awesome and if you keep that in mind, you know what, you’re gonna make it come true. Listen, a wise man once said – wish I knew who, I’d tell you if I did- but basically that the best way to control your future is to create it.

Now what does that mean? That means that you’re in charge of your destiny, you’re in charge of your future. If you go out and you take control and you create your future, then it’s gonna become what you want it to be. You see, to create your future, you need a target, because see, we hit what we aim at. The human brain- the way it works- you give it a target, it goes and it hits that target, and we’re gonna talk a lot about that in these sessions. But what’s important to realize is that if you don’t aim at anything, oops!, then you better … Did you ever see those missiles in the movies when the gyro things gets knocked out and like it’s just spiraling all over crazy, out of control?

Well, that’s the way you are in your life if you don’t have a target that you’re aiming at. You gotta pick a target. Now, what we call targets for planning purposes, for what we’re doing are goals and we need goals in our lives: personal goal, business goals, physical goals for weight loss or fitness; we need a series of goals, we need a target so we can aim at those targets and hit them.

Now let’s talk about New Year’s Resolutions. Many of you may have had New Year’s Resolutions this year, probably have made them in the past; these New Year’s Resolutions basically just stink, they’re horrible, they’re stupid because you’ve got, “I’m gonna lose weight”, “I wanna be nice to people”. I mean, they’re things that you really should do, but they’re all vague generalities, the way that we approach New Year’s Resolutions, and that’s bad. It’s horrible because it’s a waste of time. In fact it’s worse than a waste of time, It’s a waste of time and you end up feeling bad because someone’s gonna ask you a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month from now, they’re gonna ask you, you might ask yourself, “well, did I keep my New Year’s Resolutions?” And when you say no, you go “men, I failed.”

But see, you didn’t fail really because you were…you failed to begin with, okay ‘cos New Year’s Resolution – they’re like built-in failure all right? Basically, no one ever actually keeps their New Year’s Resolution if they’re that vague. See, what we want and must have in order to succeed are specific, defined, targets. We need very specific goals. You see you can’t say, “I want to lose weight”. See that’s just not gonna do it, but you can say, “…that within thirty days, I’ll have lost five pounds or ten pounds or be a certain weight. Within sixty days, I’ll be at this specific target weight, or I’ll have done so much exercise.”
You see, you have to have something that’s very specific because then, the brain can get around and then go, “okay, we’re losing ten pounds in thirty days. Okay I know what my job is now; I know what I’m making as a target. “
You see if you don’t do that, then you can’t know what to aim at. Now the second part of this is that, if we get specific, we can measure the results of what we’re aiming at. You can measure at the end of thirty days, “did you lose eight pounds, zero pounds, twelve pounds or unfortunately, did you gain weight?” But see, if you’re not aiming at anything specific, you can’t possibly ever, not in a million years, hit it. It’s not gonna happen.
And then you’re gonna be amazed when you start to set specific goals, how easily you start to hit them. Now many of you, in fact, are unconsciously setting goals that you are hitting, they’re not even the goals that you’d like to hit. But because you’re not telling your brain what to do, it’s making decisions for you. And it’s making decisions based upon input from other people, from how you grew up, from what our parents and society taught us, teachers in school taught us, okay? I mean all that is going on in there. So we need specific goals and state it in a way basically that they are measurable, and we can track the results. And then, what we’ve got to do as we’re moving through life in this next year and beyond, is we have to go back and give ourselves a checkup. We’ve gotta measure how our progress went.
Did we achieve the goal? Did we miss? We’ll talk about action plans along the way. Let’s say our goal is by the end of the year we’d have lost thirty pounds; well, we’re gonna do that in stages not all in one day, so we want to measure on our way to success.
That’s really important because success to any goal that we’re gonna try to hit is not a straight line. It’s actually kind of a series of sweeps and swoops and curves and different things that we do. Okay, you know sometimes you looks like you’re worn around drunk on your way to success.
But see, how do you get there? It’s kind of like the space ship gets to the moon. You know when NASA spends a space rocket out there up to the moon, it doesn’t go in a straight line. In fact, it gets off course a lot but they still get to the moon. How come?
Because number one, they’ve got a target. They know where they’re going and when. And number two, they keep measuring their progress- the course, the path they’re on and when they get off course, what do they do? They make a course correction, they get back on course. And they’re constantly checking and correcting that course and so what happens, they hit what they aim at. So you need to do that as well. Now unfortunately what most people do, because New Year’s Resolutions is all we grow up knowing how to make, is people make these annularly reviews.
It’s New Year; I wonder what happened this year. Okay, that’s pretty good. All right, here’s what I’m gonna do next year, okay I’m all done. And it’s like light, trite if you do New Year’s Eve in a party, it’s usually light, *prite and trite. Right, but you’ll be drinking. Your faculties are not what they should be. This isn’t the way to plan your life folks; we can do better than this. So one of the things that I do and I do with all my people that I work with, is we measure our progress every week, fifty two times a year.
We had a tether on vacation and that’s okay. That’s part of our plan too. We have that time to spend on our own, with our families, whatever. But what’s really important is that every week, I’m looking at what happened in the past week. Good, bad, ugly, whatever it might be, I’m gonna look at that last week and say, “what happened?”

Did this move me towards the goals? Am I on target? Am I on course? Am I doing the things that are gonna get me to the goals that I set? Did I spend a lot of time last week doing things that did not move me towards my goal and why did I do that? And what should I be doing differently? And what should I stop doing that was wasting all my time? Is it being productive to help me reach my goals?
And by doing that every single week, I’m constantly correcting my course 52 times a year. Now, if you do this like I did, let me tell you something, you’ll be amazed how successful you’re gonna be. And don’t just try to do it every month or two months because then, you’ll get very far off course. Then you gotta work real hard to get way back on course.

Little corrections are much easier than big corrections to get you on course. So, today’s lesson, you want to takeout on this is that “the future’s bright, we’re gonna hit what we aim at. We’re gonna aim at a bright future, but we need to be more specific than the future’s bright when it comes to setting targets, setting goals, and making plans.”

We need to make very specific plans; they need to be aimed at goals that are measurable, track able, very specific. They could be things like “I want to have a monthly income of $3000 a month by June 1st” or “I want to have $10000 extra in the bank by April 1st.” Whatever number it is you’re comfortable with, we’ll talk about different styles and more goal setting techniques coming up but for the moment, work on creating a specific list of things that you want to have. Then the other part of what I’d like you to do today, if you’ve got sometime, New Year’s day is this; I want you to also start listing the dreams: the big stuff you’d like, okay, the big stuff.
I mean whether it’s a nice big new house, a great vacation to an exotic island, a brand new car, new furniture, every thing you’d really love to have. Don’t worry about money or anything else right now ‘cos first, we gotta figure out what it is we wanna have, the big dream, the big thing. And if we figure it out, then we could figure out how we could get it. Because you know, it’s not that you can’t afford it; it’s that you can’t afford it yet.

Big difference, big…big difference. A lot of stuff I have now, the time I bought them that I could not afford it yet. Now I can, now I have it. So, let’s work on the big dreams, the big ideas as well as setting some very specific goals today and then come back tomorrow; have another message, check back on the blog, and you’re gonna find another message. It’s gonna tell you more about how to make the plans wrapped around the specific goals. They’re gonna help you achieve super…super success.
The future is bright; keep those sun glasses on baby. Wear those shades. This is Shawn Casey, Happy New Year!