My goals

[Kim Book]

I was going through the podcast today and listening to the last two or three podcasts and it mentioned to post our goals usually anything that's is in writing is usually accomplished so I wanted to post my goals to everyone and be held accountable. My initial goal is to mail out over 1000 mailers for this quarter. So that's over 333 mailers a month. I want them to be hand written and addressed so this is going to require me to allocate time daily to do this. Here it goes!

[Rick H.]

Kim Book - Putting your goals in writing is a great start. Good for you.

I also believe accountability is useful, too. However, posting your intent to write X letters may very well just become one of the over 800,000 posts now on BP. May I offer a few suggestions:

Understand the different between goals and objective. They are not the same. Your goals ought to be numerical and your objectives specific to an action. I'll bet your objective is to get the phone to ring with qualified, defined prospects and your real goal is to buy one property by a date certain.

Write down on paper your goal(s) and objectives where you will see it/them everyday. Consider putting a picture an example property on that paper so that you visualize it.

I think it's also very helpful to understand the difference between strategy and tactics. Strategy is the bigger plan as to how you plan to achieve a certain objective and an ultimate goal; tactics are the methods and techniques that you'll employ after you've started. For example, your strategy is to market directly to property owners but your tactics are the tools and skills that you'll employ when talking to these people when they (hopefully) call you on the phone.

Clarity is essential. I encourage you and anyone reading this to make an ongoing, lifelong study of goal setting and visualization. Besides Napoleon Hill's classic, Think and Grow Rich, you may find many more resources at sites like Nightingale Conant.

To be accountable, consider posting your actions here on BP.

My (enigmatic) final advice to you: plan your work, work your plan, but don't plan the results.