{"id":12367,"date":"2020-03-12T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12367"},"modified":"2020-03-12T01:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T07:06:31","slug":"the-power-of-the-goal-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-power-of-the-goal-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Of The Goal Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tonight I spoke to a group of Young Women between age 11 and 17 about “The Power of the Goal Poster”. The Power of the Goal Poster is actually the title of a chapter from my book “What AWESOME Looks Like: How To Excel In Business & Life<\/a>” that’s available for purchase on Amazon.com. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is a copy of the actual chapter from my book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anything you can vividly imagine, ardently desire,\nsincerely believe, powerfully pray for and enthusiastically act upon will\ninevitably come to pass. \u2014Frank Edward Barrett<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still remember sitting down to make my first Goal Poster.\nYes, a Goal Poster. It began with a bulletin board, a pair of scissors, and a\nglue stick. I took pictures from magazines and pasted them on a poster board. I\nwill admit that as I sat there cutting things out I flashed back to my elementary\nschool days, but I refused to let my feelings of being childish stop me from\ncompleting the task of creating a visual picture board of things I wanted to\naccomplish in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The daunting part of this exercise wasn\u2019t the cutting and\npasting, it was visually admitting the things I was secretly hoping to achieve.\nThe thought of admitting these goals \u201cout loud,\u201d so to speak, was terrifying,\neven if no one else were ever to see it. But I was going to force myself to\nanswer the question, \u201cWhat would I do if I knew I couldn\u2019t fail?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I included goals related to career, finances, spirituality,\nservice, family, and leisure. I decided I wouldn\u2019t limit my goals to the\ncircumstances I was surrounded with at that time; after all, I was raised to\nbelieve that the direction we are moving in life is more important than where\nwe happen to be standing at that moment. I included pictures of things like\nwinning the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, having my photo\non the cover of a business magazine, meeting the CEO of Microsoft, the type of\ncar and home I hoped to someday afford, and so on. Of course, I had no earthly\nidea of how I was going to make these things come about, but that didn\u2019t\nmatter. This exercise wasn\u2019t about the \u201chow,\u201d it was about the \u201cwhat,\u201d and\nanything was fair game to add to my poster. I completed it and hung it on the\nwall of my home office just above my desk so that I could see it whenever I sat\nat my computer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The years passed, and the Goal Poster became such a familiar\npresence that I hardly even noticed it was there. In fact, I don\u2019t remember\nfocusing my attention on it again for the next ten years of my life.\nConsciously, I may not have been focused on it, but subconsciously there was no\ndoubt that the Goal Poster was having an impact on me. How do I know that?\nBecause years later as I was moving my office, I went to pull down my Goal\nPoster and realized that everything that was on that poster\u2014literally\neverything\u2014had been accomplished in my life. Every goal that I had set for\nmyself had come to pass. I was stunned. That\u2019s when it hit me\u2014I needed another\nGoal Poster, and this time it needed to include even bigger and better goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sat down to create my second Goal Poster and this time I\nwasn\u2019t going to hold anything back\u2014this time, I was going to shoot for the\n\u201camazing\u201d and the \u201cwow\u201d of what I might accomplish. I included pictures\nrepresenting me selling my company for a lot of money, starting a charity to\nempower others, becoming an angel investor, visiting the Seven Wonders of the\nWorld, and so on. I even added a picture of the Ghana Africa Temple that my\nfather had given me when he and my mother left to go do service there. As they\nwere leaving, he suggested I should have him perform my marriage in the Ghana\nTemple. To help paint the picture of just how lofty that goal was, I wasn\u2019t\neven dating anyone at the time. But I had faith in the power of the poster, and\nI wasn\u2019t going to waste its magic by dreaming small. This time I was going for\nthe gusto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am happy to report that within a year of adding the Ghana\nTemple to my poster, I was out there getting married. So, to all the\nunbelievers out there, I say \u2026 what now?!?! The Goal Poster is clearly magic!\nBut wait, there\u2019s more! Next, I sold my company for $377 million and launched\nthe IPOP Foundation, a charity focused on empowering entrepreneurs. Oh, and I\ncan\u2019t forget to mention that within a few years of making that poster, I\u2019d\nalready been to visit four of the Seven Wonders of the World. There were no\ndoubts left in my mind that the simple act of creating a Goal Poster works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe so strongly in the power of the Goal Poster that\nevery time I publicly speak or teach at universities, I challenge my audience\nto create their own. I ask them to send me a digital image of their poster so\nthat I can track them down later and see if they accomplished the goals they placed\non their poster. To date, I have received countless images of people\u2019s Goal\nPosters from all around the world. Many have shared updates letting me know the\nways they too have experienced the magic of the Goal Poster in their own lives.\nTheir stories have proven to me that the magic of the Goal Poster isn\u2019t limited\nto me\u2014it is available to everyone, everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continue to make Goal Posters to this day. In fact,\nwriting this book was on my poster, so if you\u2019re reading this, it means another\nlife goal has been accomplished. Yes, experience has proven to me that the only\nthing limiting me from what I achieve is the fact that I haven\u2019t cut out a\npicture and glued it to my Goal Poster yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I challenge you to make your own Goal Poster. Start by asking yourself the question, \u201cWhat would I do if I knew I couldn\u2019t fail?\u201d Just try it. My life is evidence of its power, and really, what do you have to lose? And if its magic turns out to be real, just think of what you could gain \u2026 then go and glue it on your Goal Poster!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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