Among the many things that are important to achieving your goals, here are 4 particularly powerful keys to the success kingdom. They are major components to getting the results you want. Let’s list them briefly:

1. Visualization

Goals are extremely important as you begin, and goals are designed to help you objectify and prioritize your steps to become consistently successful. However, the precursor to setting those goals is to “see” your destination specifically and clearly. This vision is an outgrowth of the “why” you are doing it in the first place… your purpose. It ties the what-matters-most in your life to the what-matters-most in your aims to get there. This is where your passion is put in the service of propelling you toward that destination.

2. Belief

The next key is to have your beliefs in alignment with your vision. You’ve got to believe in your ability to learn, to be curious, to maintain a course of action and to generally believe in yourself. Now, this doesn’t mean that there are no challenges. On the contrary, you’ll want to uncover any limiting beliefs lurking just below the surface and neutralize and extricate them. In the same vein, nurture your positive beliefs by being self-aware and monitoring your thoughts in order to dispel any negative “out-of-alignment” thinking and turn that thinking around. Of course, you’ll want to have confidence (belief) in the plan that you construct as well.

3. A Strategy or Plan for Actualizing the Vision

A strategy is a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major aim. When you do anything (good or bad) you are using a strategy. Many fall into bad patterns and habits that stem from negative programing in their past. They are caught in strategies that don’t work; and they use them over and over expecting a different result. It’s crucial to develop your strategy for making that vision a reality. This goes for your personal thoughts, emotions and behaviors as much as it does for your goal setting, planning and execution of the plan. You’ll want to create a strategy for how you will prepare and engage a mindset with an attitude that has altitude; meaning that you employ mental/emotional tools to ensure that you remain on target, on task and on purpose in your follow-through.

4. Managing your state

An internal state is a condition of thinking and emotions. It is a mindset that encompasses beliefs, internal pictures, biases emotions and memories. For instance, consider the emotion anxiety. It stems from thoughts that are anxiety producing. Internal states are what govern your days and your results. It is critical to “manage” your internal states using mental and emotional tools to engender patience and relaxation.

There you have it. Your goals are serious business and you’ll want to give yourself every edge. Your best is the only thing that will create the conditions for consistent positive results. Let’s face it, results is the name of the game.