There are six essential steps in successful goal achievement.

Desire – It is important that you set a goal that you intensely desire. Desire is the great motivator - it is an essential starting point for any goal.

Belief - You must absolutely believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you have the ability to achieve the goal that you set for yourself. For this purpose, you have to make your goals believable; you have to make your goals realistic. If your conscious mind cannot accept the goal, there is no way that your subconscious mind will accept it and go to work to bring it into reality.

Writing - Writing your goals down is the way you program the goal into the subconscious - you must write the goal in complete detail. Write it in vivid, clear, precise detail, exactly as you wish to have it - so your subconscious has a very, very clear representation of what you want to accomplish. The writing out of your goal is the most important single step that you take because, until a goal is committed to paper, it is not a goal, it is simply a wish. You can accomplish far more by writing your goals out clearly on paper than you can by carrying them around in your head for years and years.

Rewrite your goals every morning.

Expectation - The more you can develop an absolute conviction in your ability to achieve your goal, the more rapidly you move toward its achievement. You need to expect the goal to be achieved, with an absolute knowing, a knowing like you have when you can ride a bicycle and you get on to ride, you don’t even consider the possibility of not being able to ride it.

Visualization - Get a clear picture that you can hold in your mind of your goal as though it were already in existence right now. And every single day, every single time that you get a chance, play that picture of the goal on the screen of your mind. Play it over and over and over again, so that every time you have a spare moment, you are flashing that picture on your mind.      # 8750