100 Lifetime Goals

One of the things I love most about Beachbody is they encourage you to be proactive about improving yourself- mind, body and soul.
I used to think of "Personal development" or "Self Help" as the section of the book store or library where you could spot losers. (How embarrassing! I cannot believe I was so critical and close minded!)  I apologize!

Thankfully, my views of the world have changed and I advocate Personal Development as much as possible! It's the PROACTIVE choice to become the best version of yourself. It's taking an honest look at yourself and identifying the areas where you could use a little guidance (whether it's leadership, time management, goal setting, listening, relationship building... it could be anything and everything).

One of the first books I read as a coach was: The Success Principles(TM) - 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Jack Canfield opened my eyes AND I love that he has so many different strategies for helping you set some goals... identify what you want in your life... and then actually put things in place to achieve it.
Admittedly, this book sat on my shelf for months. It's pretty large which can be intimidating... but hey- you don't have to read it all in one sitting.
I promise once you start, you will be a highlighting- circling- taking notes- inspired machine!

I created a GOAL BINDER. Basically, I clipped images from magazines and put them in those page protectors. I created a flip book for my DREAM life- everything from the type of house I wanted... the vacations I would take... the business goals I would achieve... financial goals... relationship goals... how I could impact my community...
Every night before bed, I would look through my DREAM binder before falling asleep and visualize my life as though I achieved it.
SADLY, during our cross-country move from Cali to Pittsburgh, the movers LOST it. Devastating and irreplaceable loss... but recently I came across some pictures I had of it...
And it's almost eerie... many of the things I wished and hoped for (in my wildest dreams) have become a reality!   

If there is one thing I have learned about myself... it's that I can get a bit... lazy haha I need BIG, blood pumping, exciting goals to shoot for! I need to wake up with an intense passion and desire to take MAJOR action

Our brains are WIRED to be goal-seeking machines. When you give yourself a goal, your subconscious gets to work (day and night) on how to achieve it. 

I want to share something with you in hopes that you will be inspired to create your own goal list...

Some goals can be achieved in a weekend (example: I want to go kayaking) while others may take years.  It's good to create a list of several goals that you are actively working toward so you don't get discouraged when one of your goals doesn't happen quickly. 
PLUS as you achieve smaller goals/successes, you get excited! There is no greater joy than accomplishing a goal and checking it off your list- it inspires you to keep reaching and working! 

Create a list of 100 Life Goals

I'm in the process of crafting my LIFE LIST. The 100 goals I want to achieve in my life- and the cool thing is.. I know this list will grow and evolve over time.
The key to making a good list is...

-- Be specific. Include as many details as possible (ex: when they will happen, where, you can include model #s, exact amounts of $$$, etc...)

-- Be REAL! Don't think about what you think you should want (I'm guilty of doing this). Take some time to sit down and think about what YOU actually want (not what others tell you to strive for). I recommend doing a brain dump. Get out some paper and just start writing. For the first 20 min, you're prob writing what you think you should want... but after awhile... your true self comes out!

-- Make it Visible You could create a dream board, put your goals on notecards, put together a dream binder, write a blog post! ... whatever you decide...make it something you can look at often to visualize your goals coming true. The goal is to keep them on your mind.

-- Celebrate Every Success  As your achieve goals (big or small), celebrate! Soak it in and really take a moment to enjoy every success!

-- Don't be afraid to dream BIG! Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. -David Joseph Schwartz

Jack Canfield says there are 7 areas you should set goals for:

1. Financial & Wealth Goals
2. Career Goals
3. Health & Appearance Goals
4. Relationship Goals
5. Personal Development Goals
6. Community & Charity Goals
7. Free Time Goals

To give you some inspo, here are some of my goals!

Kati's 100 Life Goals

TRAVEL

• Switzerland (Aug 29, 2015!!) 
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Egypt
• London
• Greece
• France
• Alaska
• Italy
• Denmark
• Canada
• Poland
• Bali
• Tahiti 
• Africa
• Hawaii 
• China
• Bora Bora 
• Scotland
• Ireland
• Peru
• Japan
• Norway
• Dubai 
• Yellowstone National Park 
• Niagara Falls
• At least 1 international trip per year

Experiences

• See the Great Wall of China
• Go Kayaking 
• Climb on a Glacier in Alaska 
• Couples Fitness Photo Shoot
• Fitness Photo Shoot 
• Boudoir Photo Shoot 
• Meet Oprah
• Meet US President
• See the Pope in person
• Attend Tony Robbins Event 
• Attend Tony Robbins Retreat in Figi  
• Live to be 100 (like Betty White- she's the coolest) 
• Go to the Rain Forest
• Take a cooking class in a foreign country
• Float in the Dead Sea 
• See the Northern Lights 

Family

• Dream Wedding 2016
• Date my spouse - keep the magic!
• Work on my communication skills
• Have a baby, start our family
• Create a loving, nurturing environment 
• Be the house that all of the kids want to come to & play =) 

Accomplishments:

• Create a legacy of financial freedom for generations to come
• Million Dollar Earner
• Earn a Million Dollars/year
• Start an Animal Rescue Foundation 
• Donate 10% of my income to charitable causes that I believe in
• Publish a book
• 3 million blog views by 2016 
• Own 3 rental properties by 2017 (one down!) 
• Help 5 personally sponsored coaches reach Millionaire Circle by 2017 (one down!) 
• Help 5 PS coaches earn 6 figures by 2016
• Help 100 women have a physical (and emotional) transformation in 2015! 
• Build my website (Marie Forleo meets Tone It Up girls. Fitness + Business!) 
• Top 20 Elite in 2016
• Personal Development/Legacy...
  When Oprah asked a guest what she wanted her legacy to be, this has always stuck with me...she said she wanted people to say "THE ONLY HURT SHE EVER CAUSED WAS WHEN SHE LEFT US."

Health Goals

• Heal my body- Hashimotos in remission 
• Ideal body weight 118 lbs
• Share my Gluten Free recipes, lifestyle, help others get started
• Maintain a healthy balance (don't over exert myself in workouts, don't give up either) 
• Maintain "Whole30"/paleo eating style 90% of the time 
• Workout 6 days/week

Dream Home
My fellow introverts may relate and understand this- my environment is so important to me. Having a safe space, a beautiful home and an inspiring space is suchhhhh an important part of my life. I work from home, workout here and spend 99% of my time in the house! haha
I LOVE LOVE LOVE our home now and I wake up everyday with gratitude... but in the spirit of dreaming big and putting my wish list out there... here goes... 

• Mediterranean Style 
• 5500 sq ft
• Waterfront, water views
• Pool, hot tub
• 0.5 acre - 1 acre
• Resort like yard- lots of trees, plants and sitting areas
• Fenced (for the pups of course!) 
• Outdoor kitchen, fireplace and dining area
• Large Master bedroom with sitting area & balcony
• Large, spa like master bath
• Large, celeb-like walk in closets haha Complete with chandelier 
• Spacious Home Gym
• 2 Offices (My office has waterviews)
• Beautiful staircase (wrought iron railing)
• Tall Ceilings
• 8' doorways 
• Large kitchen with gas cooktop! 
• Large oversized island (a great place for people to gather!) 
• Large Laundry room
• Game room 
• Covered 2nd story balcony
• woodwork and custom molding throughout 
• Woodbeams in Living room and kitchen
• Lots of windows
• Open layout
• Plenty of outlets!  (It's annoying when houses dont have enough outlets lol)
• Large Driveway
• Fountain in front yard
• Sunset views from the backyard 
• Quiet street & neighborhood
• AMAZING neighbors 
• A beautiful, amazing, fun place for our family to grow! =) 

This has been such a FUN project- I loved sitting down with Jay to talk about our future and what is in store (not only for us... but also the lives we can touch).
My favorite part about this business is... by reaching further and living the life of MY dreams.. it gives others the courage to go after their dreams. That is a beautiful thing! 

Visualize and Affirm Your Desired Outcomes: Visualizing A Step-by-Step Guide

You have within you an awesome power that most of us have never been taught to use. Elite athletes use it. The super rich use it. And peak performers in all fields are now starting to use it. That power is called visualization. The daily practice of visualizing your dreams as already complete can rapidly accelerate your achievement of those dreams. Visualization of your goals and desires accomplishes four very important things.

1. It activates your creative subconscious which will start generating creative ideas to achieve your goal.

2. It programs your brain to more readily perceive and recognize the resources you will need to achieve your dreams.

3. It activates the law of attraction, thereby drawing into your life the people, resources, and circumstances you will need to achieve your goals.

4. It builds your internal motivation to take the necessary actions to achieve your dreams.

Visualization is really quite simple. You sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and imagine — in as vivid detail as you can — what you would be looking at if the dream you have were already realized. Imagine being inside of yourself, looking out through your eyes at the ideal result.

Mental Rehearsal
Athletes call this visualization process “mental rehearsal,” and they have been using it since the 1960s when we learned about it from the Russians. All you have to do is set aside a few minutes a day. The best times are when you first wake up, after meditation or prayer, and right before you go to bed. These are the times you are most relaxed. Go through the following three steps:

1. Imagine sitting in a movie theater, the lights dim, and then the movie starts. It is a movie of you doing perfectly whatever it is that you want to do better. See as much detail as you can create, including your clothing, the _expression on your face, small body movements, the environment and any other people that might be around. Add in any sounds you would be hearing — traffic, music, other people talking, cheering. And finally, recreate in your body any feelings you think you would be experiencing as you engage in this activity.

2. Get out of your chair, walk up to the screen, open a door in the screen and enter into the movie. Now experience the whole thing again from inside of yourself, looking out through your eyes. This is called an “embodied image” rather than a “distant image.” It will deepen the impact of the experience. Again, see everything in vivid detail, hear the sounds you would hear, and feel the feelings you would feel.

3. Finally, walk back out of the screen that is still showing the picture of you performing perfectly, return to your seat in the theater, reach out and grab the screen and shrink it down to the size of a cracker. Then, bring this miniature screen up to your mouth, chew it up and swallow it. Imagine that each tiny piece — just like a hologram — contains the full picture of you performing well. Imagine all these little screens traveling down into your stomach and out through the bloodstream into every cell of your body. Then imagine that every cell of your body is lit up with a movie of you performing perfectly. It’s like one of those appliance store windows where 50 televisions are all tuned to the same channel.

When you have finished this process — it should take less than five minutes — you can open your eyes and go about your business. If you make this part of your daily routine, you will be amazed at how much improvement you will see in your life.

Create Goal Pictures

Another powerful technique is to create a photograph or picture of yourself with your goal, as if it were already completed. If one of your goals is to own a new car, take your camera down to your local auto dealer and have a picture taken of yourself sitting behind the wheel of your dream car. If your goal is to visit Paris, find a picture or poster of the Eiffel Tower and cut out a picture of yourself and place it into the picture. With today’s technology, you could probably make an even more convincing image using your computer.

Create a Visual Picture and an Affirmation for Each Goal

We recommend that you find or create a picture of every aspect of your dream life. Create a picture or a visual representation for every goal you have — financial, career, recreation, new skills and abilities, things you want to purchase, and so on. When we were writing the very first Chicken Soup for the Soul® book, we took a copy of the New York Times best seller list, scanned it into our computer, and using the same font as the newspaper, typed Chicken Soup for the Soul into the number one position in the “Paperback Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous” category. We printed several copies and hung them up around the office. Less than two years later, our book was the number one book in that category and stayed there for over a year!

Index Cards

We practice a similar discipline every day. We each have a list of about 30-40 goals we are currently working on. We write each goal on a 3x5 index card and keep those cards near our bed and take them with us when we travel. Each morning and each night we go through the stack of cards, one at a time, read the card, close our eyes, see the completion of that goal in its perfect desired state for about 15 seconds, open our eyes and repeat the process with the next card.

Use Affirmations to Support Your Visualization

An affirmation is a statement that evokes not only a picture, but the experience of already having what you want. Here’s an example of an affirmation:

I am happily vacationing 2 months out of the year in a tropical paradise,
and working just four days a week owning my own business.

Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.

Expect Results

Through writing down your goals, using the power of visualization and repeating your affirmations, you can achieve amazing results. Visualization and affirmations allow you to change your beliefs, assumptions, and opinions about the most important person in your life — YOU! They allow you to harness the 18 billion brain cells in your brain and get them all working in a singular and purposeful direction.

Your subconscious will become engaged in a process that transforms you forever. The process is invisible and doesn’t take a long time. It just happens over time, as long as you put in the time to visualize and affirm, surround yourself with positive people, read uplifting books and listen to audio programs that flood your mind with positive, life-affirming messages.

Repeat your affirmations every morning and night for a month and they will become an automatic part of your thinking — they will become woven into the very fabric of your being.

© 2006 Jack Canfield

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what's your 5 year plan? “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”

Last night I met an old friend for dinner and she did what your friends should do for you....she pushed me, inspired me, reaffirmed my beliefs and made me accountable to my goals and dreams.  It was nice to talk to another person who has BIG dreams for herself and can think beyond her current situation....KNOWING that she is DESTINED for greatness.WE are destined for GREATNESS!

You don't just fall into success though- you have to work to achieve it.  You have to write down your goals, share them- then start taking the small steps everyday that will get you there.

I love this segment from Jack Canfield:

Be Willing to Dream BIG Dreams

"As soon as you commit to a big dream and really go after it, your subconscious creative mind will come up with big ideas to make it happen. You’ll start attracting the people, resources, and opportunities you need into your life to make your dream come true. Big dreams not only inspire you, they compel others to want to play big, too

Service to Others
Something else you’ll discover is that when your dreams include service to others — accomplishing something that contributes to others — it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

Turn Your Dreams into Goals and Objectives
Once you are clear about what you want, you must turn each item into a measurable objective. By measurable, I mean measurable in space and time — how much and by when. For instance, if you were to tell me that you wanted more money, I might pull out a dollar and give it to you, but you would probably protest, saying “No, I meant a lot more money — like $20,000!” Well, how am I supposed to know unless you tell me? Similarly, your boss, your friends, your spouse, your brain — God, the Universe — can’t figure out what you want unless you tell them specifically what it is. What do you want — exactly — and when do you want it by?

Write Your Goals Down!!!

Write your goals down IN DETAIL! and read your list of goals every day. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want.


For an even more powerful approach, close your eyes and focus on each goal and ask yourself, “What is one thing I could do today to move toward the achievement of this goal?” Write down your answers and take those actions.

I recommend writing down a minimum of 3 goals in each of the following 7 areas:

1. Financial Goals
2. Career/Business Goals
3. Free Time/Family Time
4. Health/Appearance Goals
5. Relationship Goals
6. Personal Growth
7. Making a Difference

To help your reticular activating system begin finding YOUR wants in unexpected places, take time now to decide what you want and start writing!

Remember, don’t hold back!"  

Don’t wait until you are looking death in the face to realize that you are not just a by-stander but You must be a pro-active participant in life. Don't sell yourself short. You have a lot to offer. You have special gifts unique to you that you can offer to the world.

Think about those people in your life that just seem to have it so "easy"  They always seem carefree and vibrant- people always seem willing to help them and are happy to see them succeed. What makes this person different from you?

Attitude! And realizing what your dream in life is and going after it. Wouldn't you be MUCH happier if you spent your days working on your DREAMS and PASSION? 

So why doesn't everyone go after their dreams or set goals for themselves? Fear of failure! We don’t want to fall short and we don’t want anyone to know we didn’t make it. We don’t want to FAIL.

But think about when you were learning how to walk early in life. You prob fell...A LOT. ALL of the time! But did that stop you? Did you say to yourself "well since I didn't master it on my first time...I'' just give up because I'll never get this!"  NO you kept at it!

So what changes? What happens in life that we think just because we making mistakes that we should give up?! A mistake is simply a learning process. Ok that didn't work...now I'll try this...

“Even though you may not know how to achieve a lofty goal, set it anyway. You will be surprised at how inspired you’ll be and you’ll likely take action you wouldn’t normally have taken.”

Use the power of your sub-conscience to unlock your inner genius/bombshell!

Act As If -Jack Canfield

One of the most powerful secrets of success is something that you knew as a small child: Act as if.

As a child, you may have pretended that you were a firefighter, a teacher, or a veterinarian. As an adult, you can tap into your creativity by acting like the person you want to become.

Acting as if you are already where you want to be sends powerful commands to your subconscious mind to find creative ways to achieve your goals. You’ll start noticinganything that will help you succeed. Acting as if sends strong messages to the universe that this end goal is something you really want.

How Would You Act?

If you had already achieved your dream, who would you have as friends? What type of clothes would you be wearing? How would you act? How would you treat others? Would you tithe a portion of your income to your church or favorite charities? Would you have more self-confidence? A better attitude? Would you take more time to spend with your loved ones? Take these actions now.

When I decided that I wanted to be an international consultant, I immediately went and applied for a passport, bought an international clock that told me what time it was anywhere in the world, printed business cards with the words “International Self-Esteem and Peak Performance Consultant,” and decided I would like to first go to Australia. I bought a poster of the Sydney Opera House and placed it on my refrigerator.

Within one month, I received an invitation to speak in Sydney and Brisbane. Since then, I have spoken and conducted trainings in more than 20 countries and continue to expand my business around the globe.

Create the Right Inner Experience

Most people think that if they have a lot of money, they could do the things they want to do, and then they would be much happier. In fact, the reverse is true. The outer experience of acting as if creates the inner experience – the millionaire mind-set – that will take you to the actual manifestation of that experience.

Successful people exude self-confidence, ask for what they want, and say what they don’t want. They think anything is possible, take risks and celebrate their successes. They save a portion of their income and share a portion with others. You can do all of these things now, before you ever become rich and successful. By doing so, you will start drawing to you the people and things that will help you achieve your goals.

You may not be able to fill your closets with expensive Italian suits and designer clothing right now. But you could invest in one or two really great outfits, so that when you do need them, they are there. When you dress like you have already made it, you will look the part, and successful people will naturally be attracted to you and invite you to participate with them.

The Come As You’ll Be Party

In many of my seminars, we do an exercise called the “Come as You’ll Be Party”. Everyone socializes with other participants as if they were at a cocktail party. However, they must act as if they have already achieved all of their financial goals and have everything they want in life.

After about five minutes, I stop the exercise and ask participants to share how they are feeling. People report feeling excited, passionate, positive, supportive, generous, self-confident, happy and content.

I then ask them to look at the fact that their inner feelings – both emotional and physiological – were different, even though in reality their outer circumstances had not changed. They had begun to feel like millionaires simply by acting as if they were.

Be, Then Do

When acting as if, the proper order is to first be who you want to be when you’ve achieved your goals.Create an inner state of happiness, confidence and abundance.

Then do the actions that go along with being that new person. Because these actions are inspired from your inner state of success, they’ll ultimately lead you to achieving your goals and having all the things you ultimately desire.