How are you framing your result process? In other words, what are you focusing on as you are preparing, processing and creating your trade plan? Is it something like… “Where is this going and will the plan work out?” Or, perhaps it’s worse… “I just can’t seem to get this right; why do I always lose?” This type of thinking begins to spiral downward to the point of becoming out-of-control and it definitely can destroy your results by causing you to take your focus off what matters most. When the results do come they quite often are exactly what you were afraid of – more losses caused by something that you didn’t do that you should have done, or something that you did that you shouldn’t have done.

It’s so easy to get caught in problem oriented thinking; you can become consumed by what you don’t want. The goal-achiever becomes immersed in the issue(s) rather than focused on what you truly want; i.e., to keep your commitments to achieving your goal. In those instances, most know what to do, but they become caught in a self-imposed straight jacket made of their own thinking. Preoccupation with what you don’t want keeps your energy, your resources and your emotional attention on the undesirable condition. In other words, your energy flows where your attention goes; and more times than not you end up with what you don’t want.

It’s important to know what you really want and make it a focus of your actions.   Achievers understand the power of knowing what they want and envisioning that specifically and clearly. It is a matter of having a compelling set of goals that stem from a compelling reason for those goals. There is a pattern to this thinking, which is focused on the goals. Additionally, achievers are often unaware of this process. It is an outgrowth of the hunger, the intensity and the passion with which they desire what they want. This type of focus acts like a turbo charger catapulting them into the desired results. This is “results oriented” thinking. Your eyes should always be on the prize.

Being results oriented means envisioning what you really want as if you stepped in the future and got it. In the words of Steven Covey, this “towards thinking” is “beginning with the end in mind.” Moving toward your goals creates focus by increasing the energy around the desired condition. If you program yourself to think about being calm or getting things right, you are dramatically increasing the chances that this is how you will be. Achievers have mastered self-programming. It doesn’t mean that they are not challenged or that things aren’t difficult; but, they use these situations as opportunities to ramp up their focus on the important things in their lives. They have modeled themselves on excellence.   Results oriented thinking is about identifying what galvanizes your focus and your passion.