Happy New Year and the 1:80 Advantage

Hey, what has the New Year to do with the one to 80 advantage? Advantage over what?
 
Okay! This has something to do with New Year’s resolutions. It has also something to do with how your mind works.

The new year just started and very likely you’ve made some New Year’s resolutions. The new year seems to you like a great opportunity to make a new start and do better this year than last.
 
Now here is it where you can improve your chances to be successful by a factor of 80. Sounds pretty unbelievable, right?
 
How can you make your chances to succeed 80 times greater? Naturally you have some doubts. And yet there is research and practical experience which shows there is a workable system to do it.

 

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Want to find out more? Then read on.
 
What is this system? What can make it 80 times more likely for you to achieve your goals for the new year? There are basically 2 steps:
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1. Write down your goals. This has a couple of advantages. One it forces you to be clearer about what you want to achieve. Writing it down makes it more concrete. Secondly, you can post that piece of paper with your goals at a convenient place to remind you often. Both research and practice show that this will make it 10 times more likely for you to achieve your goals.
   
2. Read your goals out aloud at least once every single day – until they  become reality! I’m sure reading them a couple of times won’t hurt either. Reading them aloud will not just remind you of your goals, it will help your subconscious mind to give your goals an increasingly high-priority. The research shows that this will make it 8 times more likely to achieve your goals over just having your goals written down.
   

 
So here is the math of success: 10 times 8 and voila here is 80! When you write down your goals and read them at least once every day out loud your chances for success improve 80 times. That is 80 times over just thinking about some goals for the New Year and not writing them down or reading them out regularly.
 
What do you think? Is such an advantage worth a little daily effort???
 
Here are 2 more tricks to make your goal setting work even more effective. The key here is that it is the subconscious part of your mind which will do most of the work for you. Therefore, you have to make your goals easy and convincing for your subconscious:
 
Make your goal a powerful statement – “Affirmation”

• First, here are some rules which make your subconscious understand what you want.
  
• Your subconscious cares only about YOU. Therefore make your goal an affirmation statement about you (I, myself, me)
• Use the present tense. The subconscious knows only the now, no past or future.
• Make it a positive statement. The subconscious ignores negatives, e.g. in “don’t smoke” it hears only “smoke”.
• Short and emotional phrases stick in your subconscious much easier.

Example: I love an exciting well-paying job (it’s “me”, in the present, positive and emotional).
 
Picture your goal vividly – “Vision Board”
Pictures go directly to your subconscious and stick there. Your goals automatically get support. A fun and easy way to do this is with a “Vision Board”. Find photos and artwork from magazines, the web or newspapers which make you feel good and represent your goals in some exciting way. Take these pictures and clue or tape them to a bulletin board. Hang the board at a place which gives you some privacy but also where you can see it easily and frequently. 
A workshop participant in Germany told me she did this for several years each New Year and each time succeeded achieving at least 80% of her goals.
 
OK, now get going to start your New Year out with a powerful initiative. That’s how you get control.
 
To your SUCCESS!   Fred George Sauer