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Master Your Game: Reaching Greater Success

Written by: Jacque Small

Article Overview: I hope you had as great a summer as I did. I have been busy finalizing five years of research for this next series of articles. But no need to feel sorry for me, this research was done during leisurely strolls on the golf course. The next four articles are focused on reaching greater success in our lives. I would like to share a personal experience and use my golf game as an analogy for the principles. We will explore: • Establishing your target - what do you really want to achieve? • Your technical game - what do you need to do to get to the target? • Your mental game - how important is who you are on the results you generate? • A consistent swing - what habits will assist you to achieve success?

Master Your Game: Reaching Greater Success

I hope you had as great a summer as I did. I have been busy finalizing five years of research for this next series of articles. But no need to feel sorry for me, this research was done during leisurely strolls on the golf course.

The next four articles are focused on reaching greater success in our lives. I would like to share a personal experience and use my golf game as an analogy for the principles. We will explore:

• Establishing your target - what do you really want to achieve?
• Your technical game - what do you need to do to get to the target?
• Your mental game - how important is who you are on the results you generate?
• A consistent swing - what habits will assist you to achieve success?


Establishing Your Target

If you are going to spend your time playing the game of life, wouldn't be nice to know the objective of the game?

To set a target, you need to search deep into yourself and discover three things:
• what you want
• your vision for the future, and
• specific goals that you set for yourself

Clarity around these will help you set appropriate targets.


What You Want

Imagine life as a grocery store with many aisles and thousands of products to purchase. If you have limited money, what is it that you would most like to buy? Do you make your purchases haphazardly or do you carefully think about how you will spend your money?

My experience from presenting Reaching Greater Success is that most people have become so busy with life that they have not stopped to think about what they really want. They dash into that grocery store, taking the first thing off the shelf that meets their immediate needs. A better approach is to think about what you really want, what is important, and to set a target.


Vision

Part of setting targets is visualizing an end result. What will success look like? How will it feel and what will you be saying when you are there? A vision is your dream for the way things will be at some specific time in the future, say 20 years from now. It contains what things you want to have, what you will be doing and who you would like to become.

Creating a vision is a powerful tool to achieving your wants. A vision helps stimulate your subconscious to recognize opportunities that will assist you to hit your targets. Being consciously aware of your vision will, in turn, assist you to make decisions.


Goals

Set short term and long term goals only after you have a clear vision. Goals are the specific, measurable, relevant and attainable things that you would like to achieve within a specific period.

Goals allow us to stretch ourselves and take actions that support us to move towards the targets. Without a goal, there is nothing concrete to aim for. No flag to guide us, no course to follow.


My Journey

When I changed careers, I made it a full time job to decide what I wanted and in what direction I would aim. In trying to understand me, I came across this piece of information: women with golf handicaps of 12 or less, earn incomes of six figures or more. That interested me and it must have been at the back of my mind as I was discovering my values, my wants. My other core personal values: I love sports and competition, I want to be adept at what I do, and want to continue learning. From this discovery, I set this personal target: to be an excellent golfer.

With my finance background, I could have chosen many routes for my career. However, in creating my vision I found that my real passion was in helping enterprising business leaders build businesses that are not only profitable but a great place to work. This was a driving force for me when I chose coaching as a career path. My vision took shape: to develop a program where people can learn both the skills of golf and leadership at the same time.

To reach my target of becoming an excellent golfer, my goal is to reach a handicap of 12 (average score of 88) by October 31, 2006. When I set that goal in 2000, my handicap was 26 and my average score for a round was about 110. Reaching my goal certainly seems like a stretch, but to this day I continue to try. More about my golf game later.

In the meantime, think about what you want and your target. Whether setting a personal or a career target, the process is the same: outline your wants, envision the results, set measurable goals.

The next issue will give you some strategies for achieving your goals so that you can consistently move towards your target.

Yours in taking aim,
Jacque Small

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