Easy Trick to Achieve All Your Goals
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Today, we have something different. A post that won’t only help you in making your blog a grand success - but will help you be successful in your life too. But you have to conduct a short experiment first… ready?
The Experiment
Are you up for a personal experiment? Dona_Tt worry; ita_Ts a very easy experiment.
All you have to do is take a look around you and count all the things in blue you can see. Could be the jeans you are wearing, a pen, maybe the colour of your chair, the water cooler… count as many things as you can. Done? Now try to remember them while we take a slight detour…
The Detour
In 1953, a survey was conducted with the graduating class of Yale. The question in the survey?
a_?Do you write down your goals?a_?
The response showed that only 4% people wrote down their goals.
In 1973, 20 years after the initial survey, the researchers track down the surviving members of the class of a_T53 to see how successful they were. And what they found astounded them. 4% people who wrote down their goals were worth more than the other 96% put together!
The research showed that writing down goals work like magic. But why does it work?
For the answer, leta_Ts get back to our little experiment…
Back to the Experiment
Remember all the blue things you counted around you in your room? Are you ready to narrate them one by one?
Ok - now, without turning around, can you start naming the “brown” things you saw around your room 2 minutes ago?
If you are like most people and don’t have photographic memory, you won’t be able to name more than 2-3 brown things. But you’ll be able to name 8-10 blue things.
How come? Because before you turned around, you had a goal of counting blue things. And your mind was focused on counting blue things - not brown things. It filtered out all the brown things.
Writing down goals is nothing but a filtering device for your brain. You will focus more on the things you’ve written down as your goals. And you will jump on them when they present themselves as opportunities.
Action Summary:
- Write down your goals a_” monthly as well as long term goals a_” and youa_Tll achieve them.
- Read your goals list every day to help your brain focus better.
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Posted 26 May 2007 #
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Posted 26 May 2007 #
Great information.
People are reminded occasionally about the power of the subconcious mind, they will now be noticing blue items for a while.
Write goals down and help program your subconcious.
Posted 29 May 2007 #
That’s a great study that was done. Very cool to add a little “experiment while you read” to it as well.
Posted 01 Jun 2007 #
I’m going to start writing my blog goals for each month. Awesome post.
Posted 02 Jun 2007 #
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Posted 15 Dec 2007 #
Hello!
Well, to tell the truth the Yale survey story may be an urban myth, as some tell it as a Harvard survey and others Yale…some of the details differ…REGARDLESS it’s a nice inspiring story.
As for the blue-brown thing…James, you should really be paying Anthony Robbins royalties for using his exact example from Personal Power. I like that you seem interested in goals but try to work on them yourself and develop your own strategies…or use some of the tried and true ones and alter them to your own purpose!
BUT, if you use someone elses ideas verbatim..please give them credit!
All the best,
Mentor
Posted 23 Apr 2008 #