Bull's-eye Targeting

“What if you knew you couldn’t fail? What would you attempt to do then?”

-Dr. Robert Schuller

Why must we know the answer to this great question? For 2 reasons, first, because “you can’t hit, what you can’t see.” The expression is true in darts, in baseball, and definitely in a street fight, but it is also true for us. It’s unfortunate but we have all said, “Things just aren’t going my way.” Without a target, we will spend a lot of time saying that because we won’t know which way is ours. The instant we have a bull’s-eye to hit, our subconscious mind does whatever it takes to get us there. This is because our mind is built like a missile system, if we don’t give it a target, it will hit anything that moves. But if we give it a bull’s-eye to hit, it will avoid anything in its path to get us there. Most of us end up with many things we don’t want because our minds are still stuck hitting anything that moves.

The other reason we need to know the answer to Dr. Schuller’s question is because nothing else on this earth will drive us more to succeed than our own personal dream. Once we know what it is and we establish the steps to get there, we start feeling like every day is our day. We wake up on fire. Which is why when a study was done on the 47 wealthiest people in the world each one of them had a goal that they said to themselves night and day. And, not surprisingly, all of them hit their target. There are a number of steps to greatness, but the first is having a bull’s-eye.

This is step one of Bull’s-eye Targeting. If you want to be great, you must do this step. I cannot emphasize that enough.

Grab a pen and paper, and start writing down what you want to be remembered for doing. What is your long-term dream? If someone offered you $1,000 to do a job, but offered you $1,000,000 to do a little extra, which would you want to do more? The difference between good and great is small. Do that little bit extra and suddenly all the rewards start pouring in. That is the difference between a Michael Jordan and the high school basketball star that never makes it. So, as you are writing your dream make it something remarkable. The bigger it is, the more motivated you’ll be to achieve it.

The second step is to write with vivid detail. To do that, ask yourself these questions. How would you look when you accomplished it? How would you feel? What would people be saying about you on SportsCenter? Where would you be living? Where would you be training? Who would you know? How would you act?

Once you have all of this down, do the final and most important step. Place it next to your bed. Then read it, once as you wake up and once right before you go to sleep. While you’re reading it, picture yourself already living your dream. This is crucial because this is the step that trains your subconscious mind to find the path to your dream and to avoid those obstacles that will keep you from it. Every great person in history has taken this step, take it, and you’ll never look back.