Day 4: Turning Your Dreams and Desires Into Achievable Goals

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Continuing with our series from the new Harper Morrow book NLP: The Essential Guide also available instantly for Kindle.

Review your original list of Don’t Have & Want and your new list of Don’t Have & Want. Compare these two lists and merge them according to your current priorities. You may want to arrange them in their new order.

Of course, as new items come into your awareness, feel free to add these to your list.

Now, pick one of your top-priority goals, and take it all the way through the Well-Formed Outcome Model using the worksheet below.

Well Formed Outcome Worksheet

What specifically do you want?
Describe your desired outcome or state in a positive sensory-based way that’s an appropriate chunk-size and addresses WHAT ELSE having or achieving your outcome will do for you (Meta-Outcomes).

How will you know when you’ve achieved what you want?
Determine if the “evidence”you’re focused on is appropriate and timely (soon and regular enough).

Under what circumstances, where, when and with whom, do you want to have this result?
Reflect on the context(s) in which you want to have this outcome and evaluate the ecology so you can consider how achieving this result may affect other areas, aspects, or people in your life.

What stops you from having your desired outcome already?
Identify and explore any feelings, thoughts, or circumstances that seem to inhibit movement toward your outcome.

What resources will you need to help you create what you want?
Determine what resources you ALREADY have that will help you (knowledge, money, connections, etc.). Consider additional resources you’ll need to move forward.

How are you going to get there?
Identify manageable steps to help achieve your result, consider multiple options to get where you want to go, and determine the FIRST step you’ll take.

Reprinted with permission from the new Harper Morrow book NLP: The Essential Guide also available instantly for Kindle. In it you’ll find a lot of additional suggestions and more ways you can use this and the other tools we’ve been sending you.

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