Goal Achieving Steroids

 It is early in 2014 you should be just getting started on making your 2014 goals and Dreams come true, or at least I hope you are. Make sure that you don't sabotage yourself by throwing away your power to achieve them.

 Our society has stripped most people of the most powerful success tool ever available to everyone by creating a get it now easy credit culture. We can buy most anything we want by making "easy" monthly payments. Beyond being bad for your financial health, it is completely destructive for your ability to set and achieve goals and dreams.

 Last night anyone watching "Pawn Stars" was shown how this success strategy works. Chumley has taken on a new healthy lifestyle and has lost a great deal of weight, going from 320 to 241. Nothing has been mentioned as he has been making this change, but last night after reaching this goal, he said why he was doing it. Last year the store bought a personal one person hovercraft that he wanted to ride, but it has a 250 pound weight limit. He lost the weight so he could ride it and did so on last night's show. The point is he had a burning desire to ride this vehicle and it drove him to reach his goal. It makes no difference if ANYONE else thinks your Dream has any value, it only matters that you do.

 There is a wonderful story of the power that can come from delayed gratification. Dexter Yager, one of the icons of the Multilevel Marketing industry who has every material thing you can think of, several multi-million dollar homes, collections of cars, jets, what ever you can imagine councils others who are chasing their own dreams. I have heard several people who had counseled with Dexter that part of their evening included going to a marina to go sit in a speed boat Dex wanted. This boat was about 50,000.00, a number that Dex likely carried on him. One of those mentees on the third trip to the boat said to Dex, "Why don't you just buy this boat?" and Dex looked incredulous saying "I can't afford to do that!!" Knowing that Dex could easily buy the marina, he asked what are you talking about. Then Dex gave a piece of wisdom that if you take to heart will completely transform your ability to reach Goals and Dreams. Dexter said, "Do you know how hard it is for me to find something I want? I have to milk all the want out of it before I buy it."

 That is very profound. What if we always made ourselves "earn" those things we really want instead of just buying them on impulse? What if we used them as a carrot for us to reward ourselves when we performed activity goals, or accomplished a task?

 If you want to put steroids into your goal setting muscles delayed gratification is your answer.