What Did You Say You Want? Click Below to Listen to This Episode [app_audio src="http://traffic.libsyn.com/goalgettingpodcast/S1-EP2_-_What_Did_You_Say_You_Wanted_-_Final.mp3"] This is a replay of Season 1 - Episode 2.  Many of the early episodes have been pushed off of iTunes and other platforms because of the amount of episodes I have published. If you have listened to some of my latest episodes, you will have heard that I am working on some Life Event issues and am working on a new platform for the show. As I work through this Life Event, I will be back into full swing with Goal Getting Podcast. Thank you for your patience. I hope you enjoy this replay. In order to accomplish a goal, your mind must first know what you want. The brain is a very literal tool. It wants to, and will, give you exactly what you want. It will give you exactly what you BELIEVE you want. There is a quote attributed to Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich and Outwitting The Devil, What The Mind Can Conceive, it Can Achieve.  However, the actual quote is   In order for the mind to believe it has to know, specifically, what you want.  To make that clear, Napoleon Hill stated in Think  And Grow Rich, that you should create not just written goals, but Clearly Defined, Written Goals. In Episode 0, we learned about the 3 Critical Concepts of Successful Goal Setting We talked about the FIRST Concept – that I call – The What - What do you want? As we discussed then, it is important to know What We Want To Achieve. Napoleon Hill – for his book - Think & Grow Rich – Interviewed the most Highly Successful People of his time , people such as (Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, etc.). Napoleon Hill wanted to know what they did differently from everyone else that propelled them to Success and great wealth. What did they do that allowed them to achieve what they achieved? From his studies and interviews he found 13 Principles, The ONE COMMON THREAD with all of these successful people was they had – CLEARLY DEFINED, WRITTEN GOALS. Each one wrote their goals down, but they were also were clearly defined. Not just, I want to be rich! I Want to make a lot of money! I Want to be famous! They were clearly defined! Each one knew very clearly where they wanted to go! Speaker and Author - Mark Victor Hansen says that time has proven 2 of the laws/principles to be most important: 1) The Master Mind principle/process and 2) "Know very clearly where you want to go." If you’ve read any books about the current leaders of industry and highly successful people, you will hear the same thing …. They all had CLEARLY DEFINED, WRITTEN GOALS! They all knew clearly where they wanted to go! Scientific Study Proves It - Written Goals Works! In 2007, Dr. Gail Matthews at The Dominican University in Northern California performed a Scientific Study – Why? – she and several other behavior researchers had heard about a Harvard or Yale study from the 50’s or 60’s that stated a certain percentage of Harvard )or Yale alumni had been more successful than others because they had written their goals down. In their research, they found that the study never really happened. The statistics were non-existent – bunk that had been perpetuated by speakers since that time. But it never happened. So they set out to find out “Would you be more likely to achieve your goals if you wrote them down?