Accelerated Goal Achievement: An Authentic Approach to Set and Achieve Goals Faster

By Virend Singh and Verusha Singh

We all have dreams and aspirations for a better life, but for most people they remain so – just dreams and aspirations – until they die. It doesn’t have to be like that. You are essentially a “goal-achieving mechanism” capable of achieving just about any outcome you set for yourself. Accelerated Goal Achievement: An Authentic Approach to Set and Achieve Goals Faster will help you take your dreams and turn them into concrete action plans, full of bite-sized action steps that you can confidently execute to successful completion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Verusha Singh
• Release date: Jan 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781922113153

Virend Singh

Virend Singh was born and raised in South Africa. He started his career in the computer industry as a trainee programmer and steadily climbed the ranks to eventually head up the computer division of a Building Society in South Africa. In 1989, Virend migrated to Australia to start a new life with his wife and two young children. Since then he has worked for three major corporations in various information technology roles until eventually striking out on his own, first as a contract Information Technology Project Manager and then as an independent business person. A business professional with an MBA and a graduate of the ‘school of hard knocks’, Virend finally learned that highly successful people think and act different than others. His greatest revelation was that Prosperity is the direct result of ‘Growing’ and ‘Contributing’. Having learned first-hand what it takes to achieve notable success, his plans for the future is to work with his daughter Verusha and help people improve the quality of their personal and professional lives.

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Chapter 1

The Heart of the Matter

The heart of the matter is: Most people don’t achieve their goals in life because they don’t understand the simple process of setting and achieving goals. Mostly, successful people have defined goals and detailed plans for achieving those goals. They can tell you where they are going and how they intend to get there.

Perhaps the one thing that sets the high achievers apart from the rest is mental mastery, where you proactively control your mental attitudes, and not vise versa. The most direct path to mental mastery is developing an understanding of the subconscious mind, which is the true SECRET to turning your dreams into reality. The greatest champions literally hack (or trick) the subconscious mind to deliver their desired outcome.

You can, too!

Let’s take a deeper look at the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is a living-computer that operates according to the specific instructions that it is given. In his best-selling book, Psycho-cybernetics, Dr Maxwell Maltz refers to it as a goal-seeking mechanism. He says:

"The new science of ‘Cybernetics’ has furnished us with convincing proof that the so-called ‘subconscious mind’ is not a ‘mind’ at all, but a mechanism – a goal-striving ‘servo-mechanism’ consisting of the brain and nervous system, which is used by, and directed by mind. Like any other servo-mechanism, it must have a clear goal, objective, or ‘problem’ to work upon. The goals that our own Creative Mechanism seeks to achieve are MENTAL IMAGES, or mental pictures, which we create by use of IMAGINATION."

All things are created mentally first, then they are created physically. Life is images of the mind, expressed in physical form in your outer world. So, without images in your mind (or internal world), there is no equivalent expression in your outer world. In other words, if you cannot see your goal completed in all its glory in your mind, then there is no way you will experience it in your life.

There’s a proven way to create and accelerate success in your life. It’s through effective goal setting and the implementation of a plan to achieve them. This book will teach you the process of setting and achieving goals so that you can turn your dreams into reality.

In order to explain the various concepts described in setting and achieving goals, and give you a practical example to follow, we have shared the exact steps we took to plan, execute and create this ‘Goal book’.

Let’s get started.

Chapter 2

Understand the Basics

2.1 What is a Goal?

A goal is the clear vision in your mind of a target you aim to hit by a specified date. It is your vision of a desired outcome. There is no hard and fast rule about the size of a goal – it may be large, medium or small, depending on the desired outcome, the amount of effort involved and the time required to achieve it.

2.2 What is Goal Setting?

Goal Setting is the process of defining and working towards achieving goals. It is a powerful skill which, once learnt, is the path to success.

If you study successful people you will find that they share a very common quality - the ability to create a vision and to steadfastly hold on to that vision until it becomes a reality. They identify and accomplish all the necessary steps to ensure a successful outcome within the required time frame. That is the essence of goal setting.

2.3 Why Set Goals?

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

~ Albert Einstein

You set goals to achieve the things you want in life. Goals enable you to face the future. They bring direction into your life and enable you to grow and get what you want — to realise your dreams and highest aspirations.

If you don’t have a target, how can you hit it? Defining what you truly want means that you can begin to guide your life like a ship toward the harbour light because you now have a goal that is exactly, precisely and specifically identified. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you identify where you need to concentrate your efforts.

Once you have mastered goal setting, it will become common practice and will prove invaluable as you work towards every accomplishment. You will pursue your goals with confidence and shape your destiny. No longer will there be uncertainty - you will be in absolute control.

2.4 What is Goal Achievement?

Goal achievement is the step-by-step realisation of your specific goal – the actual process.

A clearly defined goal is fundamental for long term success. While it is possible to achieve some level of success without clearly defined goals, you will achieve much more and a lot faster, if you are disciplined about the process of goal achievement.

2.5 Why don’t people achieve their goals?

There are many reasons why people don’t achieve their goals. Following are some of the common ones.

•No compelling reason – they are ‘comfortable’ with their current situation.

•No written goals – the subconscious mind does not have a definite, clear target to