Great article in today’s Globe & Mail called — Want a Better Life?  Follow a Flight Plan.  It provides tips from success coach, Brian Tracy, who has a new book out, Flight Plan, which “says you can reach the most important destinations in your life if you follow a deliberate flight plan.”  Rebecca and I have for years used a technique called “Standing in the Future” which is very much what Brian describes in a slightly different way.  Here are some of his tips:

Write a list of 10 goals you would like to achieve in the next year, with a deadline for each.  Use the “magic wand” technique and assume you have no limitations of any kind.  Wirte them in the present tense, as if your goal has already been achieved, since your subconscious mind will register such commands better.  Write them in a positive fashion rather than negative, emphasizing what you will achieve, not what you will stop doing.  Finally, write them personally, beginning each with the word I.  Example:  I earn $XXX ecah year.

Then ask yourself, what one goal on your list would have the greatest positive impact on your life in you were to accomplish it in 24 hours?  This now becomes your major ‘definite purpose’, your primary goal, and your most important destination for the next leg of your journey.