Planning your life’s results,

your complete guide to

clarity and direction
in 2011!
DR L. MICHAEL HALL

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In this article, Dr L Michael Hall reveals his 11 top secrets to planning for your
clarity, direction and success in 2011. As a bonus to our readers, Dr hall has also
provided a guide to creating well-formed goals that motivate and guide us to our
desired outcomes. We hope that you enjoy the article as much as we did.
On January first I sat down with a sheet of paper and wrote out a list of my
dreams, my goals, my resolutions, my aims, my intentions, and my purposes for
2011. On that day also I received emails from half a dozen people who sent me
their list-the things they wrote down that they were committed to make happen
in the new year.
It's natural that people do these things as a new year begins. It's even more
natural for people committed to the unleashing of their potentials to do this.
This article is written as a guide to creating your success in 2011. The following
are the 11 key points that remain unknown to most people.

1) WHAT RESULTS DO YOU WANT IN 2011?

What results do you want in your health and fitness? In your business and
career? In your skills and competencies? In your finances and investments?
In your relationships? In your hobbies and recreations? In your contributions and
legacy?
As you consider the results that you want to achieve in this new-year, do you
experience these results as lofty, noble, challenging, and energizing?
Quality control them in terms of these four attributes. How lofty are the results
that you want? Are they lofty enough to create an inner excitement?
To enable you to stretch forward and transcend your current life? How noble are
the results you're going after? Are they noble enough to get your ego out of the
way? Is your goal compelling? "The greater danger for most of us lies not in
setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and
achieving our mark." (Michelangelo).

2) WHAT RESULTS ARE YOU GETTING NOW?

What performance indicators are you using now to evaluate and measure the
results you are currently getting? What have you been doing that has resulted in
the current conditions of your life?
The fact is you are getting results now! You are getting results in your health and
fitness, your body weight and strength. But what kind of results are you getting?
Look in the mirror and you'll see some of them! Ask someone who will be
honestly candid and you'll discover others. What relationship results are you now
getting? Communication results? Love and affection results? Are you financially
independent or are you still working for money? Are you a slave to monthly bills?
Will this be the year that you begin to create a foundation of wealth so that you
can stop serving money?

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3) HAVE YOU ASSUMED COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR
RESULTS?
Who is responsible for your health? Your financial wellbeing? Your sense of love
and affection? Who's responsible for finding your passion and living
passionately?
If the answer that immediately comes to your lips is not, "I am!" Or if it does not
immediately come with a sense of celebration and excitement, "I am!", then will
this be the year that you assume complete response-ability for your inner
powers? Will this be the year that you'll stop passing the buck or playing the
blame game? Will you step up to be a fully response-able person?

4) HOW CLEAR AND PRECISE ARE YOUR GOALS FOR THE NEW-
YEAR?
Are they measurable? How will you measure them? How will you know that you
have achieved the results that you want and that you can now "check them off?"
Vague and ambiguous goals without a time-line or a measurable scale
masquerade as goals but are not well-formed goals. They are more wishes-
things you want and hope for, but for which you don't have a well-formed
outcome.
Is this the year you'll stop fluffing around in dreamland and come down to reality
by making your goals precise and specific?

5) DO YOU HAVE A CLEAR AND SPECIFIC STRATEGY FOR HOW

YOU WILL ACHIEVE THE RESULTS THAT YOU WANT?
How will you achieve your goals? What will you do? When will you start?
How often will you implement the strategy? Do you have your action plan written
out so that you can use it as a checklist of activities that will bring you the
desired results? Is your goal actionable? Can you take action on it?
Those who are high performers have a strategy. They have a well-desired plan
that they can follow and implement. They also have it written out.
Trying to keep the strategy in your mind seriously reduces its effectiveness. The
neuro-muscular activity of actually writing it down puts muscle into the goal and
enables it to get into your muscles as muscle-memory.
Mark Twain said, "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small
manageable tasks and then starting on the first one."

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6) HAVE YOU IDENTIFIED SABOTAGES THAT COULD WRECK THE
SUCCESS OF YOUR DESIRED RESULTS?
Are you unstoppable? Could anything stop you from fully and completely achieve
your goals? What? Do you know the things might seduce you away from the
results you want? What's your plan for dealing with those sabotages?
Top performers know that it's unrealistic to assume that merely setting a goal
will make it happen. There's lots of things that can recruit you away from
implementing your goal. Do you know the things that can get your way?
What structures will you put in place so that you will not be taken away from
your highest objectives?

7) WHAT ARE THE KEY SUCCESS FACTORS FOR YOU TO ACHIEVE

PEAK RESULTS?
What are the critical pieces in your plan for achieving the highest results?
Do you know them? What will you have to do to find them? What are the most
important steps?
Getting the results you want requires certain actions on your part. Some are
absolutely critical and essential, others are good and supportive. Do you know
the difference? What are the implementation steps that you cannot skip on?
Have you prioritised the necessary and sufficient steps from those that are extra
and add to the execution of your strategy?

8) HOW INTENSE IS YOUR FOCUS ON YOUR DESIRED RESULTS?

If you were to gauge the intensity of your ability to concentrate on the goal, how
high is your intensity? Is it high enough? What will you need to do to increase
that intensity? Can your focus be broken or interrupted? What would sabotage
your focus?
Focus is a matter of intention and purpose and it grows from the meaningfulness
of the objective. It also is a matter of prioritising so that you know first things.
"Once I am set on a goal, it becomes difficult to deflect me." (Albert Einstein).

9) WHAT FEEDBACK DO YOU WANT OR NEED, THAT WILL

SUPPORT YOU GETTING THE RESULTS YOU WANT?
What feedback on your actions would enhance your competency and shape your
take skills to the next level? Who will give you that feedback? How often will
you seek that feedback? How open are you to that feedback? How quick will
you act on that feedback?
You need feedback, all peak performers do. Feedback is an incredibly important
secret ingredient for accelerating your learning and shaping your competencies.
But it takes a lot of ego-strength and a strong sense of self to be able to look at
your behaviors straight on without defensiveness.

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10) WHAT BENCHMARKS WILL YOU USE FOR MEASURING WHEN
YOU GET YOUR DESIRED RESULTS AND KNOWING WHEN TO
CHECK IT OFF?
How will you measure your results? What measurements will you use? How will
you know to check off the goal as "Achieved!"?
This is the whole point of getting a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and making
sure that the KPI is specific, precise, and measurable.

11) WHO WILL YOU NEED ON YOUR TEAM TO ACTUALISE YOUR

DESIRED RESULTS?
Who will support you? Who will hold you accountable? Who will you work with
and through? Who will be a collaborative partner with you? Whose help do you
need to achieve your goals?
Top performers don't go it alone. They are not "lone rangers," but help and are
helped by others. They collaborate with a win/win attitude.
Criteria for creating a Well-Formed Outcome

1) Stated and represented Positively:

State what you want, not as what you do not want. Represent what you will be
doing and thinking. Create a movie in your mind of life beyond or after the
challenge or problem.

2) Sensory-based or empirical:
Stated in sensory based terms in the hear and now so that your internal movie
will be close and immediate. Benchmark the specifics in see-fee-hear actions
and behaviors.

3) Contextualised:
Describe the contexts of the outcome, when, where, with whom, how often, etc.

4) Actions steps and stages:

Represent the outcome in terms of processes, the specific steps and stages, and
behaviors, which will move you to achieving your goal. Use verbs rather than
nouns and nominalizations.

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5) Self initiated and maintained:
Describe the processes and behaviors that within your own control, that you can
initiate and maintain.

6) Resources specified:
Describe the resources you will need to achieve your outcome, how will you do
this?

7) Make it compelling:
Describe the outcome in language that you find compelling and motivating.
Use the client's actual words and language.

8) Ecologically balanced:
Describe your outcome in a way that you recognize as balanced and ecological
for all the contexts and relationships of your life.

9) Forecasted in a time frame:

Locate the specific actions of the goal on your time-line and its final
achievement.

10) Evidence Procedure:

Identify an evidence procedure that will let you know when you have achieved
your outcome.
Dr L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. is the co founder of the International Society of Neuro-
Semantics.
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