The Power of Focus - Developing Unusual Clarity

Hello again! Strategy number three from the Power of Focus is Developing Unusual Clarity. No discussion about the power of focus is complete without the discussion of clarity. 

Clarity is absolutly essential and critical to all success motivation and goal setting endeavors. To have an measure of success in your life and any measureable positive change, you have to envision your results and develop a clear picture of what you want.

Clarity is critical and it starts with spending time thinking for a change. Literally. Developing unusual clarity requires you the schedule time to think and create exciting pictures of your future. Scheduling time to think may sound a bit unusual but it will transform your power to succeed. 

Jim Rohn said:
"Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons"

How powerful! Consider doing the "rocking chair test" and review your life backwards by projecting your life forward to a ripe old age of say 80 years old. Use your imagination. In looking back on your life what regrets do you not want? What legacy do you want to leave. How would like to have lived your life from having the ability to back from the age of 80 years? 

What is that you are desirous of achieving and without its accomplishment might perhaps lend itself to a bit of regret for you? What disciplines are you willing to practice now in order to avoid regret later on in life? I can assure that choose to disclipine yourself now will weigh in ounces compared to the regret weight of regret felt for not having followed dreams and taken chance opportunities to experience a rich and rewarding life experience.

How about reserving some time on one day per week to just think. Think about your life, your opportunities and all that you want to accomplish. Just remove the excess noice and clutter from your mind and shut out all other messages about who others may say you are and beging to just think about who YOU think you are and what you want to do, become and have.

From there you need to create and exciting picture of your future. This is goal setting 101. You have to have a picture of where you going and it must be exciting enough to ignite success motivation form within you and it should be challenging enough to keep you from slipping back into a lifestyle of mediocrity and average results. Developing unusual clarity requires the discipline of goal setting.

Goal setting for unusual clarity is thinking from the big picture and identifying the specific steps to achieving those goals. A goal is the ongoing pursuit of a worthy objective until accomplished.

Goal setting is the best way to measure progress and create unusual clarity. Instead of random generalities you create meaninful specifics in your life. You remove the drift and randomness factors from your life and accelerate your success!
Here is a Top 10 Goal Setting checklist from The Power of Focus that will help you create unusual clarity in your life:

1. Your most important goals must be yours.
2. Your goals must be meaningful.
3. Your must be specific and measurable.
4. Your goals must be flexible.
5. Your goals must be challenging and exciting.
6. Your goals must be in alignment with your core values.
7. Your goals must be well balanced.
8. Your goals must be realistic.
9. Your goals must include contribution.
10. Your goals need to be supported.

Goal setting creates the success habit of continuously visualizing, thinking, reflecting, and review your life's progress through a set of clearly defines objectives that create positive excitement and hope for a better future. Afterall, you have to see it before you can achieve it.
By doing this regularly you will have exceptially clarity...guaranteed!