It’s that time again to set our goals and update our vision boards for 2011. Many of us take time this time of the year to put together 2011 New Years Resolutions And Goals.

As New Years fast approaches I’m sure everyone has given thought to their New Years Resolutions. What do you want to be, do and have in 2011? I believe that New Years Resolutions don’t work unless you set True Goals – goals that have everything you need to be able to achieve them.  I wanted to share a quick outline on how to make a True Goal with the hope that your New Years Resolutions this year will result in making 2011 the best year of your life.

Here goes – A True Goal needs three things:

Vision, Mission, and Strategy

Vision Provides a Picture – answering What?
Mission Provides Purpose – answering Why?
Strategy Provides a Plan – answering How?

A true goal requires that you identify what you want, feel a deep sense of why you want it and then develop a plan as to how you will achieve it.

To develop your strategy – there are four simple questions to ask. They are:

Who has done it?
How did they do it?
What are the obstacles?
What are the solutions?

When you set a goal with vision, mission and strategy – you dramatically   increase your odds of achieving it.

Here is to making 2011 the best year Ever!

Happy New Year,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Today I want to share a powerful newsletter I received from Dave Blanchard. Dave is an incredible man and he is the CEO of the OG Mandino group.

The Rules Have Changed! Do you know the new rules?
The rules have changed. Can you feel it? Can you see it in the faces of your friends and family members? Can you hear it in their growing pleas for help?

We didn’t get to vote, the rules just changed and far too many were unprepared and are growing increasingly desperate by the day.

For the past two decades much of society has been engaged in the frenetic pursuit of riches. Like chickens with our heads cut off we have run around borrowing and spending while fantasizing about a time ‘when’ we will be free from stress, debt and pain. Many have spent endless and valuable hours vividly living in their minds what it will be like ‘then.’ Our illusions of wealth have been supported by easy credit, funded by increases in real estate values and fueled by a deep desire for ease.

We have been instructed to raise our hands to the universe and proclaim our worthiness with the promise that the universe is ‘stupid’ and will deliver whatever we ask. We have been persuaded, for a fee, to believe there is a fantasy fairy that will magically manifest our wishes in tangible reality if we but visualize our dreams with enough intention. What has been the result? Pundits have reaped millions while herding people into this rabbit hole. Followers have become increasingly broke, broken and angry.

Strangely the blame has not been placed on the efficacy of the message but instead it has been turned inward. Life did not turn out the way we imagined so we blame ourselves for this failure. Cries echo through our homes and communities, “What is wrong with me? Why does it work for everyone else but not me? I can almost touch it. I can almost taste it. Why can’t I have it? Maybe God does not love me?” The idea of magical wealth tickled our ears, but in the end it broke our hearts, destroyed families and friendships and left far too many discouraged and swamped in despair.

Do you know the new rules? Is it time to step back from the firestorms of life and learn them?

In 1988-90, Ramona and I lost millions in the California real estate crash. Strapped with nearly a million dollars in debt and with less than a thousand dollars to our name, we reached deep to find the strength to start over. We loaded everything we owned in two Ryder trucks, packed our seven children in a van and drove away from our shattered dreams. Oddly, Ramona was singing camp songs with the kids. I was in one of the trucks crying.

In the darkest of dark nights I vividly remember lamenting, “I long to cry to the God of my youth, but the God of my youth will not hear my cry. I must change my God or change my cry.” For us the rules had abruptly changed and we did not know the new rules.

We were able to move to a safe place and begin the ten-year process of learning the new rules while cleaning up the mess and rebuilding our lives and our estate. The lessons learned during those ten years were priceless. Don’t want to ever go through it again – but retrospectively we are grateful for the experience.

Today there is no geographic safe place. The current economic challenges are both real and pandemic. So what do we do now? We will want to stand where we are and courageously fight a good fight. To do so, we will want to learn the new rules, rise above the firestorms and see opportunities more clearly even if they are limited. We will want to be okay in spite of the challenges and be an Intentional Creator, creating the most we can with what we have. What we cannot do is spend one more second in confusion and darkness, fantasy or imagined catastrophe. There is not one moment to waste.

Rule #1: It is not about me.

It has always been about others. Og calls this the greatest secret of success in all ventures. However, for two decadent decades we have been instructed to make it all about us.

Following these instructions we have focused on satisfying ‘our’ desires, ‘our’ pleasures, ‘our’ needs. We have grown to believe that the delivery of riches is based solely on ‘our’ personal worthiness for wealth. Sadly, the dark journey down this rabbit hole did not result in peace of mind and promised enlightenment, especially when tested by the very real firestorms of life that are currently raging around us. In fact the results were often just the opposite. We were left empty and often made decisions that also left us very alone and lonely.

Our character has been forged in the furnace of adversity. We know what pain feels like. We can choose to wallow in self-pity and pain or we can choose to use these life experiences as a rich resource to better connect and serve others. When we learn how to do the latter, there is finally purpose in our suffering, joy in the journey and much healing in our souls.

We will want to discover how our life experiences have prepared us perfectly for this moment in time. We will want to master the Seven Principles of Intrinsic Validation and learn how to step into someone’s world, take down walls of resistance, create safe places and unleash huge reserves of cooperation and productivity. We will want to experience the very real joy that comes from being the beneficiary of this huge reserve as it is released. We will want to experience the joy that comes from being a partner with a Power greater than ourselves in bringing joy to others. We will want to be there ready to walk through the doors that open as we joyfully serve.

We will want to master Quality #1 of becoming an Intentional Creator – Connecting with People.

Rule #2: Use your mind constructively.

Creation occurs in two very different yet essential and complimentary stages. The first stage is mental creation. The second is physical creation. Both are required. One does not occur without the other IF we want our dreams to be realized in tangible reality.

Most who seek more in their life share two very powerful thought processes in common that will drive vivid mental creation. These thoughts can be a great gift or a deadly curse depending on how they are employed.

These two thought processes are much like a giant fire hose. Focus these powerful thoughts on destructive mental activities and they will blow apart our lives. The result will be repeated failure, misery and sleepless nights. Focus these thoughts on constructive mental activities and we will receive inspired ideas, impressions and solutions to problems. These vivid insights will literally light up parts of our brain that are normally dormant. This ignites passion, a willingness to suffer for something we love and see so clearly.

Sadly, 98% of those who have these two thought processes use them destructively. We will want to learn the five constructive ways of using these thought processes. We will also want to learn the techniques and practices for avoiding the three destructive uses. Gift or curse? Our choice.

It is time to master Quality #2: Goals and Expectations.

Rule #3: Live in the now in purpose driven creation.

It is here in the now that the second stage of creation occurs, physical creation. And yes, creation requires effort. However, we get to choose. One, we can work on in despair with every action being hard, boring, mundane and repetitious; or two, we can experience passion that will drive focus, discipline, effort and action.

Success is a choice. If we choose success, effort is not an option. It is a requirement. This is a tough rule for many. For them, work is a four-letter word. We agree. It is time to learn how to be in passion driven action!

Here’s a bonus. When we learn how to fully use our natural gifts, we are endowed with even more ability. When we learn how to be in passion driven action, people will be put on our path that we can serve and who can serve us.

Physical creation can be arduous or joyful. It is our choice.

It is time to master Quality #3: Completing Tasks..

Rule #4: Surrender.

Over 98% of those seeking abundance naturally avoid order and structure. Many want to fire their boss, yet are unwilling to apply for the job. We often live in resistance, resentment and even rebellion to rules, policies, procedures, people in positions of authority, anything perceived as controlling.

There is a “strait and narrow” way. A “strait” is a circuitous route through dangerous waters that are often filled with unseen obstacles. We can insist on being right and stubbornly cling to our way of doing things, but when should we do so, we will waste a lot of valuable time repairing unnecessary damage to our life-boat.

Success has rules. The very word “rules” can raise the hair on the back of our neck. Imagine discovering that obedience to these rules is in fact an invitation to freedom, the very freedom we seek.

It is time to master Quality #4: Discipline and Structure.

Rule #5: Find joy in the journey.

How can we feel gratitude yet want more out of life? How do we maximize our abilities without concern for recognition or remuneration? How can we embrace sorrow knowing that joy is waiting around the corner and will be even sweeter because of the sorrow? How can we better manage our time and convert being busy to being productive? How do we survive hard times? How can we find meaning and purpose in all that we do? How can we embrace obstacles that seem to get in our way and slow down our progress?

Learn this rule and find joy in every moment of life. Discover how this will unleash huge reserves of energy that will speed up the creation process. Without this we are relegated to a life of overwhelm and frustration. We easily become victims, takers, energy sucks. Quite a contrast from joy that supports productivity!

It is time to master Quality #5: Finding joy in the journey.

Rule #6: Heal your self-esteem.

What impact do unmet expectations have on our self-esteem? What about painful situations that have damaged the fragile underpinnings of trust? How about inconsistencies between how we show up in public life and how we show up in our private or secret lives?

How would it feel to let go of overcompensating behaviors such as the need to impress or pretend? How would it feel to show up free of the need to let others know how much we are suffering or the sacrifices we are making or how hard life is? How would it feel to let go of shame and instead use these painful life experiences to serve others and heal their soul and ours? Feeling any fear? How crippling can fear be? Ready to let it go and be at peace in any setting?

What have our sabotaging thought processes wanted us to believe about ourselves? If I said half the things to you that your thoughts say to you about you, could we be friends?

Imagine learning the six ways to heal self-esteem and let go of all of the sabotaging noise. Imagine what it would be like to feel whole and complete, real, genuine and authentic, comfortable in our own skin and fully available to serve others?

It is time to master Quality #6: Healing Self-Esteem

Summary:

We are the owners of a very rare gift. Unlike every other creature on this planet, we can step back from our unhealthy habits of thinking, reflect on our thoughts and choose to change. We can choose to be on our best behavior. We can see the needs of others and serve. We no longer seek to receive abundance. We no longer seek to win abundance. We discover that abundance is a sacred process in which we actively participate and eventually become.

Bottom line: We can choose to learn these rules, rise above our sabotaging thoughts, embrace our natural gifts and choose to be the good person we are in spite of the firestorms of life and in every circumstance.

Smile. As it turned out for me and will for you, too, the new rules are really not new at all. They are timeless. The newness for each of us will be in the personal discovery, surrender and application. We haven’t been looking here, or more honestly stated, wanting to look here. This is the cry that I needed to change. These are the rules I learned in the dark nights, nights that would try any soul. These are the real secrets for creating wealth.

We invite you to take an Intentional Creation Assessment. Measure your thought processes. Discover which thoughts are resisting and which thoughts will support you in mastering these Qualities and following these rules. This is your life. Choose to live it well.

Go to: www.intentionalcreation.com for a free 20 minute consultation. I know it can benefit you.

Continued success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

10 Rules to achieve your goals.. What decisions have you made already today?

• Did you know that each decision you make affects what you become?
• Are those decisions moving you closer or further from what you want to achieve?
• Did you know that the direction of your life can change as soon as you decide what goals you want to pursue?
  

  An Excerpt from
  Goals…The 10 Rules for Achieving Success
  by Gary Ryan Blair

  Success is the intentional, pre-meditated use of choice and decision. Unless you choose-with certainty-what it is you want, you accept table scraps by default!

  The world is plump with opportunity. With boldness and conviction, stick a fork into the goals you want by being decisive.

  You are born with great capabilities, but you will not achieve your potential until you call upon yourself to fulfill it. You will rise to the occasion when it presents itself; yet, to assure self-fulfillment, you must provide occasions to rise to. Clearly defined goals allow you to travel toward another horizon that represents the end of one experience and the transition to a new and better existence. The objective is to choose the right goals, and then to create the necessary causes-the effects will follow!

  The difference between what one person and another achieves depends more on goal choices than on abilities.

  The profound differences between successful people and others are the goals they choose to pursue. Individuals with similar talents, intelligence, and abilities will achieve different results because they select and pursue different goals.

  Each decision affects what you become. We form our decisions and our decisions form us.

  There is no escaping this; the smallest choices are important because-over time-their cumulative effect is enormous.

  Never overlook the obvious: The nature and direction of your life change the instant you decide what goals you want to pursue.

  Once you make a decision you start down a path to a new destination. At the moment the decision is made, your decision to pursue a goal alters what you are becoming. A single choice can alter your life, your destiny, your legacy.

  Think about it-your goal decisions represent and express your individuality. You seal your fate with the choices you make.

  You define yourself by your decisions.

  Your dialog with success is ultimately a solo one. Decisions and goals made must be your own if you are to call your life a success.

  Always establish the best goals you can. Goals are the seeds of success-you become only what you plant. The quality of your harvest is a direct reflection of the quality of your seeds…your decisions!

  Indecision is the big eraser of opportunity and potential. Risks and costs accompany every decision; however, the price of decision is far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. When it comes to decisiveness, squatters have no rights.

  Everyone has an official wish list of things they think are “reasonable.” What about the unofficial wish list? The one that common sense tells you to ignore? The list that exists deep in your mind, the list that keeps you up at night, the that makes your toes wiggle when you think of it? Why not choose that list for a change?

  How long have you dreamed of being, having, and doing what you really want? Think big, as when it comes to your goals, the size of your ambition does matter.

  A decision to lose weight and keep it off must be remade every time you feel hungry.

  A decision is never made only once.

  This is an outstanding book I suggest for everyone.

Perhaps my findings are not the only solution, but with all my heart I believe the fires of greatness in our heart can be kept aglow only after we develop a sense of urgency and importance for what we are doing. I mean a sense of urgency to the extent that we feel it is a matter of life and death; and it is a matter of life and death, for in growing we are alive and in quitting we are dying in a sense.

If you don’t believe this, talk to anyone who has lost the sense of urgency of getting things done and has been drifting in complacency, mediocrity and failure. If you are without a sense of urgency in your work, you know what I mean.

A sense of urgency is that feeling that lets you know yesterday is gone forever, tomorrow never comes. TODAY is in your hands. It lets you know that shirking today’s task will add to wasted yesterdays and postponing today’s work will add to tomorrow’s burden.

The sense of urgency causes you to accomplish what today sets before you. Thank God for the sense of urgency that can change a dull, shabby existence into a sparkling life. Right now, ask God to give you a sense of urgency. Believe that He did, and then act accordingly.

To Your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

Being faithful to your goals and dreams is a great article by Ed Hirsch. Ed explains how to create the right life.

Being faithful to your goals and Dreams sometimes means sacrificing comfort and convenience (at least for the short term).  To live the life you most aspire to, you need to do specific things, in a specific way, in order for them to turn out.
Think back and remember things that happened in your past, to those periods of time when you wasted time and money, and then had to somehow figure out a way to rework your misguided ways, overcoming to make things RIGHT.

What specific things need be done NOW in your life?

Do you know…are you willing to find out?

What if you’re wrong (again)?

You need mentors.

Not only for your business career, also for your Life’s balance to ensure that what you earn, you keep.  What you keep must be re-worked, re-invested (throw some compound interest & geometric progression in there too) for continued and sustaining growth and prosperity.

Are YOU WILLING to move toward the balance that life affords, as is nature itself?

What is your perception of balance in your own individual life?  Know anyone who has it?

What are the specific excuses you come up with in your mind to avoid the disciplines in business, family, health, God, contribution, etc…(whatever it is you hold dear and most significant/important to the essence of who you ARE)?

There is a RIGHT way to live that balanced life I suggest.

However, it usually cannot all be learned from one (1) individual (mentor).  Mostly, it requires a concerted effort to SPECIFICALLY identify the parameters of balance.  Earning and having a lot of Money is ONLY ONE part of balance.

Your specific thoughts, intentions, words, movements, actions, plans, goals, Dreams…day in, day out…if done RIGHT, will move you where?

What do YOU think?

Being obedient in Faith, disciplining your life in the way you KNOW you are being led (in whatever way you truly believe in your heart to be true), has GOT to be the greatest challenge and reward.

To your Success,

Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

You and Your Goals

Have you thought much about goals? Perhaps your current goal is to graduate with a Master’s Degree and then go after that promotion at work. Maybe it is to drop 10 pounds before bikini season is over and do it the healthy way. Or, maybe your goal is more loosely defined, but nevertheless important… like committing to live a more environmentally conscious lifestyle.

Our goals say a lot about us, expressing who we are and what we stand for. Empowering goals take us into life where we want to be. They bring us purpose, passion and a sense of accomplishment.

Often, we confuse empowering goals with expectations. A goal is a mission that you set for yourself, and needs to be based on your personal values and beliefs. Sometimes, the expectations others have for us about how we should live, who we should be and what we should look like become enmeshed with what we intend for ourselves.

When we try to live up to everyone else’s expectations, we lose sight of ourselves. We get disconnected. Are the current goals that you have for yourself based on who YOU are, and what YOU want? If not, you may want to reexamine what it is that you feel is most important in your life, and then compare that to how you are actually living.

Sometimes, we set the bar for our goals too high. This is because our own self-expectations are simply unattainable. We all have those “shoulds” and “have-to’s” that we struggle to meet each day. Maybe you think you ought to look a certain way… be a certain size… have a certain lifestyle. Basic goal setting teaches us that an empowering goal is one that is attainable… within reach. Remember that and you will start to see a difference in your life.

To Your Success,
Herb Hunter, 734-285-6792, hunter645@aol.com

If you are like me, you already have or you’re in the process of setting goals for 2010. I hope you’re thinking big! You can either Shoot at the moon and hit the stars or shoot at the fence and hit the ground. I say Shoot At The Moon..For example how’s this one for a great goal:

2010 will be my best year EVER!

Well Why not? Don’t take no for an answer just go out and work your plan. You need to stay consistent, and take action. It really only take a few steps:
1. You
2. Your system.
3. Your attitude
4. Your Why
5. Your Plan of action

In Other Words..Just Do It.. Now Is Your Time..

To Your Success in 2010,
Herb Hunter

If you are considering a career in network marketing, view my website at http://herb.mynusystem.com We want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started “Today!!”  Contact me by email at hunter645@aol.com or call 734-285-6792.

It’s time for all of us to set our goals and update our vision boards for 2010. Many of us take time this time of the year to put together New Years Resolutions And Goals. This is information that a good friend of mind Ty Bennett shared on what true goals really are.

As New Years fast approaches I’m sure everyone has given thought to their New Years Resolutions. What do you want to be, do and have in 2010? I believe that New Years Resolutions don’t work unless you set
True Goals – goals that have everything you need to be able to achieve them.  I wanted to share a quick outline on how to make a True Goal with the hope that your New Years Resolutions this year will result in making 2010 the best year of your life.

Here goes -
A True Goal needs three things:

Vision, Mission, and Strategy

Vision Provides a Picture – answering What?
Mission Provides Purpose – answering Why?
Strategy Provides a Plan – answering How?

A true goal requires that you identify what you want, feel a deep sense of  why you want it and then develop a plan as to how you will achieve it.

To develop your strategy – there are four simple questions to ask. They are:

Who has done it?
How did they do it?
What are the obstacles?
What are the solutions?

When you set a goal with vision, mission and strategy – you dramatically  increase your odds of achieving it.

Here is to making 2010 the best year Ever!
Ty Bennett

If you are considering a career in network marketing, view my website at http://herb.mynusystem.com We want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started “Today!!”  Contact me by email at hunter645@aol.com or call 734-285-6792.

How would you like to discover 12 goal setting mistakes you can avoid. It is not only important to set goals its equally important to know WHY you set a particular goal. You also want to have a clear written time frame  for hitting your goals. I always ask my team to reach for the stars in goal setting. If you set your goal to hit the stars and only end up hitting the moon that’s okay. If you set your goal to low you will never accomplish the big things in life.

Define your definite reasons for wanting to hit a specific goal.  You will also want to set measurements for achieving your goals. You need to understand the benefits of hitting a goal you set for yourself. What will it really mean to you if you achieve that goal. You must also be aware of what it means to you by not achieving your goal.

You want to be aware that things will get in the way of you hitting your goals. That’s just life. You will need to focus on getting around the things that get in the way of reaching your goals. Don’t try to reach all your goals alone. Most goals require you work with other people.

Set milestones on your path to success in hitting your goals and reward yourself when you hit these milestones. Be sure to share your goals with everyone. If you keep your goal to yourself you don’t have anyone else to cheer you on to victory. Let everyone you know understand your goals so they can spur you on to victory. Learn to visualize what your goals look like, sound like, and feel like.  If you can visualize your success you can achieve it.

Here is a really good video on 12 goal setting mistakes by David Riklan. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

To be long-term successful, you MUST have a marketing system for your opportunity. I love mine because it offers total training in the skills of working with people, so that you get better and better‚ and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them.

If you are considering a career in network marketing, view my website at http://herb.mynusystem.com We want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started “Today!!”  Contact me by email at hunter645@aol.com or call 734-285-6792.

To your Success.. Herb Hunter.. Coach, Builder, Mentor, and Just a Great Guy..