I want to determine what it is that I really want, and that I know in my heart that those goals are truly what I want to achieve, not because I want to impress others.

How To Find Your True Goals

If you are interested in knowing how I discovered what I really want to achieve, here is what I did:

• I took time away from any distractions (phones, computer, television and other people).
• I took an old-fashioned notepad and a pen.
• I wrote down, “What do I want to achieve this year (Goals from the heart)”.
• I wrote down things that came to mind that I want to achieve.
• I asked the question, “Why?” for every goal I wrote down, and wrote the reasons why I wanted to achieve the goals I had written down. This helped me determine if the goal was one that I really wanted to achieve (a goal true to my heart) or if it was just for the purpose of impressing or pleasing other people.

Why My Experiment of Intention?

I once heard the story of a professional champion Formula-1 racer who explained the difference between racers who succeed and those who crash and burn (literally).

Sometimes in the heat of a race, a driver enters a corner at a very fast speed (almost too fast to take the corner). The car starts heading towards the end of the corner very fast, but the driver has two choices:
He can focus on the fact that he is going to crash and look in the direction he is currently heading, or he can avoid thinking about crashing and focus on the direction where he wants to go.

The former driver usually ends up crashing pretty hard, while the latter driver often has his car come to within millimetres of crashing, and just at the very last moment the tyres gain traction and he ends up going in the direction that he wants to go in.

The Aim Of My Intention Experiment

To see if by actively focusing on where I want to go (after determining it first) and by not thinking about setbacks and seeming obstacles that I am facing now, if I can gain traction and indeed start heading towards my goals within my set time limits.

Will it work?

I don’t know, but I am going to do it. (Not try, but do).

By making my goals public I feel I have more of an obligation to meet them. If I’m ever slacking off I can think, “Hey, I promised my readers that I would reach these goals, now get back to work”.

The Goals I Want To Achieve

After some brainstorming and completing the exercise of determining my goals (the process is outlined above), I came up with the following goals:

• Helping People

  
  
  One thing that I really enjoy doing and want to do on a very large scale is help people. Anything is possible and most people can accomplish almost everything if they just set their minds to it.

  However, most people are also lacking that drive from within to want to get better and create a better life for that. I want to be the spark that ignites their drive or the mentor that guides them along the way.

  I don’t want to help people for recognition or for money or for fame. Maybe it is because I hate waste, so people not living up to their full potential is a waste and I want to change that. Things like helping people to become more confident, to be more positive, to believe in themselves and their own ideas, to help them get in shape and to help them gain financial freedom.

  One of the ways that I am going to do this is through this blog (Upgrade Reality), that I will grow and use to achieve my goal of helping people (Which is a life-long goal).






• $5000 Per Month Income

  
  
  When I was little I decided that I am going to be a millionaire. Right now, that is not my main goal. I want to achieve an income online of $5000 per month by the end of 2010. (The millions will come soon enough).

  The reasons for this are that $5000 per month is enough for me to live very comfortably, to travel, to not have any worries about bills and to be able to focus on the things that I am passionate about (and as a result give more value to people).

  I think it is very possible to achieve but it will take hard work and lots of effort (which I am more than willing to do). I’ve already started working on various affiliate sites again and am starting to see an increase in profits already.






• 2000 Readers By End of June

  
  
  The goal of having 2000 readers to Upgrade Reality by the end of June is a goal that is a stepping stone to other goals. I believe it is possible to achieve (with a big guest-posting campaign).

  I feel that having 2000 readers is a big enough audience to warrant me starting the creation of my very first premium product that I have been planning for months already. I know it is going to take me around 2 months of solid work to complete, which is why I want to have enough people who I can share it with once it is completed.

  As a little pre-appetizer, I can tell that you the product is going to be a very detailed and comprehensive guide that will help many people overcome personal obstacles that prevent them from reaching the life that they deserve to be living.

  It is not going to be a cheap product, but it will of course be affordable and definitely worth many times its price! Something for you all to look forward to.

Parting Words

While in some ways it may seem that I have set rather high goals, I truly do believe that they are possible.

As you read this article, you saw that I only have 3 big goals that I want to achieve this year. This keeps it simple and does not spread my attention and focus too thin.

I have now consciously determined the goals that I really want to achieve for myself (from the heart) and I am going to actively focus on them and work towards them.

How You Can Help

As always, I encourage you to get in touch with me. Feel free to follow my progress. I will be open and honest about where I am and how far or close I am from reaching my goals.

It is also very welcome if you share Upgrade Reality with a friend. If every reader shares this blog with just one friend, that’s an extra 1500 readers!

Every now and then I will ask my followers on Twitter for post ideas, suggestions or topics. Do you have an idea related to self improvement that you want me to write about? Just mention it here in a comment or send me an email and the chances are very big that I will write about it!