The following info is part 4 of 8 transcribed from an interview of James Malichak on NPR radio show In the Air.
James: It's as easy as if you have to do 2-3 errands. Number one you have to pick up your dry cleaning. Number two you have to get your car washed. Number three you have to go to the grocery store. If you write those two or three little things down on a sheet of paper and look at it tomorrow when you wake up it reminds you that you have to do these three things, and it directs you to go and do those two or three things. If you didn't write those two or three things down you may have forgotten to pick up your dry cleaning or forgotten to go to the grocery store. This is no different for succeeding in life. If you don't write it down you're not consistently reminding yourself and programming your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and get them completed? It keeps reminding your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and you have to figure out how to accomplish them. You are exactly right, I always say you write them down and hang them on your bathroom mirror so that you have to see them every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to sleep.
John: That looks like a formula for developing commitment.
James: For sure.
John: People have to commit to doing something if they're going to change and improve. Because that is what you're actually advocating.
James: Here is another big key that a lot of people don't teach you once they teach you setting goals. Don't just write what you want to accomplish, you also have to write down the potential reward you'll get when you accomplish your goal and then you form a picture, and you think about that picture. If you want to make more money, what's your reason why? I want to pay for my child's college education, that's why I want to make more money. Then I want you to imagine your child graduating from college. For some families, it could be the first child in the family to graduate from college.
What you're doing is what I call a red hot "Why" for yourself. You've got a purpose now. When you develop that purpose within you it ignites your passion, and that is necessary for when you come across hurdles along the way toward your goal. When you ignite that passion inside you and I really believe that automatically catapults you into what I call the power, the final result. If you have that passion and you're centering on the purpose, which the mental picture, the benefit, the payoff is of why you're doing this, you'll try to get it done.
See Part 5 of 8 to go through the rest of this conversation.
James: It's as easy as if you have to do 2-3 errands. Number one you have to pick up your dry cleaning. Number two you have to get your car washed. Number three you have to go to the grocery store. If you write those two or three little things down on a sheet of paper and look at it tomorrow when you wake up it reminds you that you have to do these three things, and it directs you to go and do those two or three things. If you didn't write those two or three things down you may have forgotten to pick up your dry cleaning or forgotten to go to the grocery store. This is no different for succeeding in life. If you don't write it down you're not consistently reminding yourself and programming your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and get them completed? It keeps reminding your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and you have to figure out how to accomplish them. You are exactly right, I always say you write them down and hang them on your bathroom mirror so that you have to see them every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to sleep.
John: That looks like a formula for developing commitment.
James: For sure.
John: People have to commit to doing something if they're going to change and improve. Because that is what you're actually advocating.
James: Here is another big key that a lot of people don't teach you once they teach you setting goals. Don't just write what you want to accomplish, you also have to write down the potential reward you'll get when you accomplish your goal and then you form a picture, and you think about that picture. If you want to make more money, what's your reason why? I want to pay for my child's college education, that's why I want to make more money. Then I want you to imagine your child graduating from college. For some families, it could be the first child in the family to graduate from college.
What you're doing is what I call a red hot "Why" for yourself. You've got a purpose now. When you develop that purpose within you it ignites your passion, and that is necessary for when you come across hurdles along the way toward your goal. When you ignite that passion inside you and I really believe that automatically catapults you into what I call the power, the final result. If you have that passion and you're centering on the purpose, which the mental picture, the benefit, the payoff is of why you're doing this, you'll try to get it done.
See Part 5 of 8 to go through the rest of this conversation.
About the Author:
James Malinchak, Showcased on ABC's Hit TV Program Secret Millionaire, is known as by a lot of experts as the World's #1 Big Money Speaker Coach and Trainer. For Free of charge Video Trainings on how to get paid to speak and the ways to turn into a motivational speaker, pay a visit to www.BigMoneySpeaker.com.
