Happy New Year!! New beginnings and new dreams. Have you made your new year’s resolutions yet? Hopefully I caught you in the middle of deciding on what new challenges to set your mind on accomplishing.

For us blue collar folk, goal setting does not come too natural at all does it? Usually the closest thing to goal setting we experience takes place at the bottom of beer #7 and all we hope for is to not pass out before midnite. After that, whatever happens – happens! That type of goal setting has led you down that all too familiar path, all too many times where the alarm on your cell phone goes off at 6am for work and your head feels like it’s about to implode which is the least of your worries. Yup! You did it again! Your right arm is pinned underneath some…. one… who  by laying sideways, has managed to block out the morning sun which had been fighting it’s way through the tattered blinds only to be met by this gargantuan object. “Good kitty” you whisper oh so quietly so not to disturb the slumbering beast and you move towards the feline which had positioned itself strategically between you and … “Oh God! That’s not a cat… that’s her neck!”

Do I need to continue? I didn’t think so…

Onto this goal setting thing. It’s time to start setting higher goals than hoping to make it to midnight and NOT go home with a pumpkin. It’s time to start looking at your life and deciding where you can, want or need to make significant changes.

I call these desired changes my vision goals. Vision goals are big things that seem unattainable. Remember when you were a kid, you had all these wild dream and wishes… these are the exact things I am talking about.

Break them down into these 3 categories:

1. Places you want to go – Where is that one place in the world which you have always wanted to visit? Where is it that you and your spouse have always talked about retiring?
2. People you want to meet – Have you ever wanted to meet your hero? An all-star athlete? A rock star? An inspirational leader?
3. Things you want to accomplish or acquire – What have you always wanted to accomplish?  Write a book? Act in a Hollywood major motion picture? Compete in the Olympics? What have always wanted to acquire? That beautiful BMW? That dream home on the beach overlooking the ocean?

Take some time and ask yourself these three questions and really enjoy it. Pretend you’re 5 years old again and that you KNOW that anything is possible. Make sure you write down the images you see.  This is so fun if you allow it to be.

BLUE COLLAR BEGONE BACKTALK

Or, if you want, we can get back to the other story… we could start talking about that strange sour-milk-esque smell that seemed to consume the room that morning which was so strong that you had cremate your favorite diesel jeans and bathe in tomato juice!

That’s what I thought!

To Your Success
-Scott Weller

Follow me on Facebook
www.facebook.com/scottsweller

Follow me on Twitter
www.twitter.com/scott_weller

Watch for tips on breaking down your vision goals into a daily BLUE COLLAR BEGONE game plan for success.