Anthony Robbins on Goals

Is your goal
a NICE-TO-HAVE...
a SHOULD..
or a MUST

(here's something I found on Youtube you may want to ponder briefly)


#14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUZH_2__wBA
#17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Bo1frSn5A&feature=related

WE ARE our MUSTS NOW

What is MORE (frightening) is we ARE our MUSTS NOW

IF what Tony Robbins is saying is TRUE... that we ALWAYS GET our must's and only dream about our should's THEN perhaps a far more URGENT task for us right now is to KNOW our CURRENT MUSTS to explain WHY we are NOT embracing our DREAM CONTRACT.

So to what EXTENT is knowing your EXISTING MUSTS important?

CONFLICTS in your SUCCESS CYCLE

BUT LETS SAY you HAVE your MUSTS.

You have your GOAL MUSTS... AND you KNOW your CURRENT musts

NOW WHAT do you do to RESOLVE the CONFLICTS?

What happens if you DON'T RESOLVE 'conflict' in your musts?

What IMPACT will this have on your 'Potential' in your SUCCESS CYCLE?

• I want to make millions of dollars it is a must but (I am certain) I don't have the time
• I want to be highly sought after IT Contractor it is a must but (I am certain) I don't want anyone to judge me
• I want to be paid more it is a must but (I am certain) I don't know how to give more value
• I want to change my beliefs it is a must but (I am certain) I can't do any more than I have... that I have exhausted all there is for me to do... AND believe that change is difficult and takes an impossible length of time

SO to what EXTENT is LOCATING and RESOLVING conflicting musts IMPORTANT?
How will that help me find the ability I am missing?
How will I see my 'potential'?
How will I leap into 'action'? or not?
What sort of 'results' can I predict? or not?
What sort of 'belief' will be increased, reduced, removed, added?
And how will that feed back into the cycle at the top?

WHAT TAKES AWAY from your PAY?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Some contractors are happy with what they are getting paid...

but are NOT happy with what 'IS TAKEN AWAY'......

Here are some polls ODESK have taken

# Too many distractions?
What is the biggest distraction from your daily work?
What daily task do you wish you could outsource?

# Vague Requirements
In requirements docs, what is most often missing that you really need?
What is the biggest signal of quality in a job opening?

# Not taken seriously enough
Do you have your own website for selling your services?

# Wanting MORE
What is the hardest thing about freelancing?

# No Time
What do you do if you need a quick break?
What is your usual work schedule?

# Not getting out to sticky beak enough?
Which featured oCity or oTown would you most like to visit?
What social networking website do you participate in most frequently?
What website on programming do you use most often?
How do you prefer to communicate?
What publisher/author of books on programming do you prefer?
What drink do you prefer when you are working?
Whose Work Diary would you most like to see?

WHAT takes AWAY from your pay
that makes "what you are getting paid" feel 'frustratingly' LESS!!!!

WHAT IS IN CONFLICT?

Getting PAID - is it GROWING like it should?

We all like to get paid

yet when ask what 'getting paid' MEANS

they become a little less certain (some would say little less cock sure).


If your IT Business is like a flower garden... Will it smell attractive?



The conversation starts clearly enough. $60 dollars per hour one will say.. $70 dollars per hour or I don't get out of bed will say another.. or $40 dollars per hour might be an impossible dream for a third... As I say contractors are clear and rarely struggle at this point.. its when you move the conversation to the level below that where the going gets more like clay-sticking-to-the-boots... because the next level is not that easy to define.

for example

how much do you value being able to express your ideas and have them heard and implimented because they are good and not get dismissed, because you are just a contractor, because you are not part of their 'culture', because you are paid to just come in, do the hackwork and leave.

In other words how much more valuable do we feel when we are listened to, trusted, taken seriously, accepted as an important part of the solution rather than just an infectious expense, to be cut away the sooner the better?

Don't get me wrong. Some contractors are quite happy with this arrangement and there is nothing wrong it.

Yet I have spoken to contractors who say they cannot imagine their life being valued at just $70 dollars an hour and proceed to stack an amazing list of items on top of that to show they clearly mean it when they say their life is worth way more than a dollar price tag that probably explains why they are getting way beyond $70.

So to what extent do you think knowing what to get paid is important?

In other words what must you have growing in your garden to feel you are getting paid?

WHAT CONFLICT has hidden itself here?

COST PROCRASTINATION - on getting PAID

Are you earning LESS than you are WORTH?

by how much?

$5 dollars? $10 dollars and hour? or MORE?

EXERCISE

Assume you are being paid $10 under your worth. How much does each hour you procrastinate on changing that cost you?

Is it just $10 dollars an hour? or is it more?
What I'd like you to do is assume its january 1st 2008 and you have been procrastinating for over 2 years now. What I ask you to do is plug that $10 into an investment calculator that back in januarry 2006 BEGAN COMPOUNDING your $10 dollar deposit at an interest rate of 5% a day every day for past 720 days. What would be in that account now? Is it fair to say that that is the cost of your procrastination?

No its not fair to say that. In fact it cost way more. That $10 dollars was really $80 dollars... because you worked 8 hours not just 1. So instead of $10 dollars plug in $80 dollars and run the calculation again. "Hmmm" I hear you say "Yes I see your point but still not much to get too excited about". That is true but is it fair to say that the cost of your procrastination was just $80 compounded since that day?

No its not fair to say that, In fact it cost you way more than that.
That was just for 1 day. The next day you would have missed out compounding an additional $80 dollars. The day after that another $80 dollars on top of that.

Notice how the cost of that one $10 procrastination cost you a lot more than just $10 dollars.

Now that was just one procrastination. Looking back over the past few days, few weeks, months how many little $1 dollar? $7 dollar? $5 dollar things have you 'put off'?

How much is procrastination really costing you on your 'getting paid' plan?

How much less are you earning than you are really worth?



COULD THIS just be MORE HIDDEN CONFLICT?