Making your outcomes compelling?

 

Well-formed outcomes are a step on the way to success for individual and business success. By doing this process you have to focus on what you want and not what you don’t want to happen. The process itself activate both your conscious and unconscious minds to work on achieving the goal.

You can enrich your outcome and make it more achievable by spending time imagining achieving it and experiencing what it will be like when you have achieved your goal. This requires you when setting your goal, to start with the final step and access the emotions or feelings as well as images, dialogue of what it will be like once you have achieved this. Doing this on a regular basis as you move towards your goal, with make it irresistible and easier to stay motivated towards your success.

So, take a moment now to think about a goal you are wanting to achieve. Think about it in the detail and experience it as though you have already achieved the goal. Notice what you see, hear and feel. As you spend this time thinking about the goal, can you juice it up, amplify the feeling the picture and words so that it is even more vivid and real to you. Make it realistic and add in any details that you need.

 

The unconscious mind doesn’t make a distinction between what’s real and what isn’t. When you act as if you already have the goal, it is like a mental rehearsal for both your conscious and unconscious minds.

 

The Well-formed outcome model has been developed based on what is it that successful people who achieve their goals do? The well formed outcome model has the elements of SMART goals, that you may have been taught to use for setting individual and business goals, however the well formed outcome has a number of other distinctions. The following guidelines will assist you in developing your own goals using a well-formed outcome and achieve greater likelihood of achieving success.

 

	Making the statement of the goal sensory specific. This means using language that is sensory based,
	• What will you see, hear and feel when you achieve this goal.
	Knowing what you want and stating it positively. This means using language that is about moving towards what you want and not based on negative language of what you don’t want to happen. If it appears negative when you write it down, Ask yourself;
	• What do I want instead?
	Time lined. Goals need to have an end date.
	• When do you want to achieve this goal by?
	Taking responsibility to achieve the goal yourself. Generally goals require you to be able to actively achieve the goal and take the steps towards achieving the goal.
	• What is in your control?
	Context is also important, when, where and how to want to achieve this goal. When you add context the goal becomes more specific and clear.
	Resources: Example, skills, knowledge, time, support from others, money, frame of mind etc...
	• What do you need to assist you to achieve the outcome?
	Ecological check; Need to check how the goal will impact on other areas of my life. This is often an overlooked but very essential part of setting a well formed outcome.
	• What impact will this goal have on other areas of my life?
	• What are the consequences?
	• What will I gain? What will I lose?
	Is the goal compelling?
	• Does it motivate you to want to achieve this goal?
	• How much is it pulling on you?
	• How much do you want it on a scale from 1- 10?
	Identify steps and stages. Write down the steps to assist you to move towards achieving your goal.
	• Is this step small enough so that you feel it is do-able?
	Evidence Produced. Lastly how will you know that your outcome has been realized. This is the Key performance indicator for your outcome. At this point you can write your final statement of your goal as if you have achieved it?
	Now, you can have fun moving towards achieving your goals.

 

 

 

Copyright 2008 Diane Smith Consulting