My goal that I had set for nearly two years has finally manifested itself!

I work in a sale & marketing company who partners with various associations to create the Industry Buyer’s Guides for over 100 different industries. My particular responsibility is to sell the top global banner positions on the Buyer’s Guides Website to relevant vendors in each industry.

The day that I walked in for my first day at that company, I noticed the coveted $50,000 dollar wall. It is a wall that was lined with the pictures of the top 12 sales people in the company who sold over $50k in a single month.

That very day I made up my mind that I would be on that wall, whatever it took. Obviously to achieve this, I would have to become an above average salesperson.

So, how did I do it?

There is no one thing; however I can share with you a number of the practices that went into making this goal a reality.

·         Ongoing Visualization Both Morning & Nights

Although I must admit that it wasn’t necessarily an everyday occurrence, I cannot tell you how many mornings I consistently sat in a quiet place, went into a deep (often not) meditation and began to visualize the achievement of the goal. I pictured the exact sale that took me over the 50k, the great feeling within me, the positive reactions of my peers; and even imagined getting my picture taken to go up on the wall.

          I played this movie again and again until it was real to me. I created these movies in my mind, countless times in contemplation and as I lay in bed at night before falling asleep.

·         Continual Imagining

Beyond the visualization process in  formal meditation sessions, I also continually pictured my picture upon that wall every time I passed it numerous times throughout the day, and accompanying this imagining were the same joyful feelings…

·         Cultivating the Feelings of Having Already Achieved It

(Through Prayer, Visualization, and Inner Cultivation)

·         Ongoing Forward Motion Through Making Sales Calls

This means that every morning I got into to work and got in front of the right customers, and stayed consistent in making sales calls, and Asking for the sale.

·         Training My Mind to Remain Persistent and Optimistic Even When Results Were Not Showing and Horizons Looked Dismal

There were numerous times that were extremely challenging where I would barely make any sales during specific weeks. There were times where I wanted to quit, where I wanted to throw in the towel and move on. But I am glad to say that I stuck with this goal.

·         Prayer

Not only did I fervently ask God for this to be answered in the words of my tongue, I also fervently Thanked God In Advance for answering me. This thanks and gratefulness ahead of time, created a very real and joyful feeling within me, as if I had already achieved the goal.

To quote Stuart Wilde “Prayer has to be a feeling to work. You have to feel that the thing you are asking for is feasible and that it already exists in your soul as a reality.”

·         “The Three Insulators “

o   Having Faith in God

o   Having Faith in Myself

o   Having Faith in Others

 I set this goal to achieve in 2008. So from February until December I worked diligently to ensure, but was unsuccessful. In 2009, I set the same goal, and I am grateful to say that all of these forces have come together to make this goal a reality.

“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”

-Old Chinese Proverb

I have been aiming to take one or more wealth building actions with the intention of creating and ongoing and consistent habit of small efforts which will ultimately result in a huge ongoing payoff for the rest of my life.

Although I have been taking small actions for the last few days (i.e. calling a realtor, writing an email to some wholesalers, and working to monetize this website), it just seems that I could be doing more to speed up this process. This could just be the fact that my ego is never satisfied.

Could it be, that even if I have been taking small actions, I should BE CELEBRATING for taking any action at all?

What if I just celebrate for taking any action at all?

When it comes to the law of attraction, and feeling good about the process, I am sure that guilt only serves to delay the flow of receiving good things. For that reason, I choose to let it go and congratulate myself for any forward motion.

Today we had our mastermind meeting where we all went over our goals for 2009. In less than an hour, 4 or 5 of the items we had set forth had already gotten put into motion right there at the table with someone offering a great idea, asking a great question, or offering to connect the goal setter with the right person.

I cannot emphasize how powerful this ongoing process of masterminding is. In fact, if you don’t have one, I recommend that you form one immediately.

Don’t know people committed to success?

ATTRACT THEM….get out to wealth networking events and shake some hands, meet some people, find out what they need, ask some questions, and STAY IN CONTACT.

Also, see my article on Attracting Vision Supporters!

One of the greatest things I have brought into my life for keeping me on task, is a motivated friend who has some goals of his own. We each wrote out our intentions, and plans for reaching these intentions; and for the last two weeks we have broken them down into actions for each other, and created an Accountability Program. There are a number of calls throughout the week to ensure that we are on task and on schedule.

This is the second week, and I am glad that we are pursuing this path. I committed and lived up to 4 workouts and 3 Spanish lessons last week, and have made the same commitments for this week. I’m doing awesome, and its great to know that I have me word as a person of integrity on the line, in addition to the $200 bucks I’ll have to donate, if I don’t complete what I agreed to.