This document outlines a 7-step process for accomplishing goals: 1) Define your vision, 2) Find your "definite purpose", 3) Ask yourself "why?", 4) Set effective goals, 5) Write your goals down daily, 6) Prioritize, 7) Get to work and persist. Common obstacles like distractions, procrastination, and old habits are discussed. Daily routines, goal-setting exercises, and online resources are provided to help readers follow the steps. The overall message is that setting and working towards clear, written goals can help people achieve their visions.

1. Unlocking the Power of Goals
7 Steps to Accomplishing Anything

3. Does this look familiar?

4. Four Questions to Ask Yourself
• Do you have goals? 74% Vision
• Are they written down? 2% Goals
• Are they posted where you
can see them every day?
.1%
Stickiness
• Do you review them every
.05%
day?

5. Defining Success

7. “The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is just that little ‘extra’.”

8. Tonight we will talk about:
• 7 Steps for Life-Changing Goals
• Common Obstacles to Personal Success
• Resources for getting stuff done

9. Four Questions to Ask Yourself
• Do you have goals? 74%
• Are they written down? 2%
• Are they posted where you
can see them every day? .1%
• Do you review them every day? .05%

10. Step #1
Define Your Vision

11. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
-Proverbs 29:18

12. Vision
• Howard Hill
– Called the greatest archer
of all time.
– Won 146 consecutive
matches, never beaten.
– Could hit a bulls-eye, split
his own arrow, then split
that arrow.
– Stunt man in Robin Hood

14. Vision Exercise

15. People who aren’t willing to take the first
step, will never take the second step.

17. Vision

18. Step #2
Find your “Definite Purpose”

20. Definite Purpose
• Looking at your vision statement, pick out
your 5 most important points.
– Which points do you feel most passionate about?
– Which would you regret the most if you never
accomplished?

21. Definite Purpose Exercise

22. Vision
Definite Definite Definite
Purpose #1 Purpose #2 Purpose #3

23. Step #3
Ask Yourself “Why?”

24. What?
How?
Why?
H

25. Wrights vs. Langley

26. Step #4
Set Effective Goals

28. Goal Setting Exercise

29. Vision
Definite Definite Definite
Purpose Purpose Purpose
“This “This “By July” “This “This “This
Year” Week” Goal Week” Month” Year”
Goals Goals Goals Goals Goals

30. We plan backwards to move forward…

31. Vision
Definite Definite Definite
Purpose Purpose Purpose
Short- Short- Short- Short- Short- Short-
term term term term term term
Goals Goals Goals Goals Goals Goals

32. Step #5
Write Your Goals Daily

33. Let’s take a trip…

34. Daily Action Plan Exercise

35. Step #6
Prioritize

36. “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and
nothing worse will happen to you the rest of
the day.” - Mark Twain

37. Eat the Frog
• Write your goals and “To-Do” list for the day.
• Find that one task you are dreading.
• Do it first!
• With that one out of the way, you will already
feel accomplished and gain momentum for
the rest of the day.
• After all, if you had to eat a frog,
you wouldn’t want to look at it
all day long!

38. Step #7
Get to Work!

41. Daily Routine
• Write down your “definite purpose.”
• Write down a daily action item for each.
• Write down your list of tasks that need to get
done.
• Locate your frog.
• Review at night.

42. Review your goals every day!
• Level 1: Stop and read them each morning.
• Level 2: Read them out loud every morning.
• All-Star: Re-write them every morning.

44. Obstacles to Personal Success

45. Avoid the Distractions

46. Avoid the Distractions
• Learn to recognize your distractions.
• Find ways to remove them or work around
them.
• Put them to use.
– Set them as a reward for completing your other
goals and tasks.
– For example: I will not check Facebook until I
have….

47. Procrastination

48. Overcoming Procrastination
• When tackling big tasks, start small.
– Rather than say, “I need to clean the whole
house”, say “I’m going to clean just this room”, or
“I’m going to clean for only 15 minutes.”
– Once you get started, most people will just go
ahead and finish.
– Fear of the time commitment is enough to make
most people never start at all.
– This applies to long-term goals as well.

49. Breaking Old Habits

50. Breaking Old Habits
• Learn to recognize:
– Behavioral Habits: Facebook, TV Shows, Video
Games
– Mental Habits: Grudges, Envy, Anger, Self-Doubt

51. Self-Doubt
This is the #1 impediment to personal success.
You can set all the goals in the world and have
an incredible experience doing it only to turn
around and paralyze yourself with self-
criticism and doubt.
If you can dream it and are willing to work at it,
you can achieve it!

52. “Success is never owned, it is rented;
and the rent is due every day”

53. Resources that Get Results

54. Mindbloom

55. Gympact

56. Pinterest

57. Remember the Milk

58. StumbleUpon

59. TED

60. Daily Routine

61. “Many people stand at the harbor of life waiting
for their ship to come in, knowing in the heart
that it never really set sail in the first place.”

62. “Setting goals is not so much about what you
accomplish, but who you become by working
towards them.”

63. 7 Steps
• Define Your Vision
• Find your “definite purpose.”
• Ask yourself “Why?”
• Set Effective Goals
• Write your goals down daily
• Prioritize
• Get to work! Persist!

64. The Eighth Step

65. “You can have everything you want in life if
you help enough other people get what
they want.”