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One of the most powerful strategies I have ever come across and used for goal achievement I learned from Tony Robbins in his Personal Power II program. He calls it his Rocking Chair Test. How it works is you set a goal and then you imagine that you are 90 years old and you are sitting in your rocking chair looking back at your life.

What you are looking at specifically is how you feel about your life:

1st- If you have accomplished the goal you have set.

2nd- If you have not accomplished the goal you have set.

In order for this to really work you need to get really deeply involved into this process.  In other words, don’t just say “I’m happy I’ve accomplished my goal”, or “I’m sad that I didn’t get that”. The more emotional you really get, the more you put into this the more effective it will be! 

When you ask yourself how you feel looking back at your life when you have not accomplished your goal think about what it has cost you! What has it cost you finacially? What has it cost you in time? What has it cost you in self esteem? In health? In your abilities to accomplish other goals? What has it cost you in the perceptions others have of you? What has it cost your children (if you have them?) What has it cost in terms of travel? In education? In your spiritual reality?

Then…….

When you ask yourself how you feel looking back at your life knowing you have accomplished your goal imagine all the things you have gained because you have accomplished this goal. What did you gain in the way of time? What did you gain financially? What did you gain in the way of self confidence? What did you gain in your enjoyment over the span of your life? If you have kids what did they gain?

Tony Robbins is famous for teaching Pain vs: Pleasure.  It is no surprise that the purpose of this exercise it to intentionally link as much pain to not achieving your goal and as much pleasure to achieving it as possible! This is a simple process, but the fact is IT WORKS!!!!