The following article details goal achievement theories, techniques, philosophies and strategies that are some of the most powerful I have ever had the priveledge of learning: How to achieve the seemingly unachievable.

Throughout my childhood I had a reputation for being a bit of a dreamer; wanting and believing I could have things that most people saw as impossible. Needless to say that over the years a good few people have had a good laugh or two at my expense. This sort of negative influence is very destructive and if I wasn’t so irritatingly stubborn about the things I want, I probably would have listened to it and given up. But I didn’t…

What I believe I have now is a workable system that can be duplicated by anybody to make ANY dream more achievable and ultimately within realistic reach of regular people like you and me.

I’ve already used it to realize a couple of dreams.

Now I’ll share it with you and show you how you can use it too.

Here’s how it works…

The Only Three Things You Need To Achieve ANY Goal

To achieve virtually any goal – certainly any goal I can think of – all you need is the right amount of each of three commodities: Status, Resources and Opportunity.

You need enough status, the right resources in adequate quantities and then, last but perhaps most important, you need the opportunity to realize the dream.

Resources come in the form of money and man power. If you can pay for it, and it exists, you can have it. There are a growing number of billionaires and millionaires who are personally buying tickets into space, something that even the most vivid dreamer would have called impossible a few years ago.

Status is just that. For certain goals you may need a certain status to be able to make it happen. For example, there are a couple of entries on the list, such as number X “Appear on Have I Got News For You”, which aren’t going to just happen. I couldn’t walk out of my door right now and go do that. There’s a chance that money, in large enough quantities (but not quantites I possess), could make it happen. But the only really workable way to make this happen will require status. I will need to become somebody who would have a reasonable chance of being asked to appear on the show. At current, this is virtually impossible. But as you’ll see further down, this goal is at the top of a “goal ladder” – a series of goals in which each proverbial rung requires the completion of the rung below it in order to have a reasonable chance of success.

Goal Achievement Ladders

Synergistic Goal Achievement Strategies

Follow the diagram from the top.

The ultimate goal is to be on the TV show “Have I Got News For You”.

From watching that show, we know that the panelists are always either comedians and entertainers or politicians and occasionally guest hosts.

So it’s obvious that a regular joe like me, unknown and unheard of, won’t get a phone call to appear on the show. So I need to create that public profile.

All the intermediate goals are designed to do just that – arm me with the status, resources and opportunity that I need to achieve the jackpot goal.

If I was to complicate the diagram further, any or all of those intermediate goals may be the jackpot goal of its very own ladder. For example to appear in a film – and we’re not talking about a Hollywood blockbuster because it’s just not necessary – I may need to in fact make a film. That would give me the opportunity to be in it.

Every goal I achieve in some way or another provides me with greater status, resources and opportunity to achieve further goals than I had before.

Then you need the opportunity. Opportunity is not alway applicable. With many goals, if you have the resources, you immediately have the opportunity. But goals like “Appear in a Bond movie” (List entry 34), require opportunity. Becuase I don’t have the power to make it happen any time I want to. I need certain people to agree to it along the way.

Evaluating Goals for Difficulty

The easiest goals to achieve are those which only require resources, where status is unnecessary and opportunity is ever present.

The most difficult goals to achieve, and the ones I have the greatest probability of failing on, are those which require substantial resources, status and for an opportunity to arise that isn’t ordinarily present. And then, the more infrequent this opportunity occurs, the more difficult the goal will be to achieve. For example, I figure they’ll only make, at most, another three Bond movies before I hit 30. So I have only 3 chances to make it happen. If I’m going to fail at anything on the list, I think this will be the one.

Why Some People Think I’m Deluded

Most people don’t think in the way I’ve just described. So a goal like being on Have I Got News For You, for me, a guy who started out at 12 doing card tricks in his bedroom and is totally unknown, does, I’ll admit, sound completely impossible. But as I hope I’ve adequately explained, it isn’t. Provided that I plan and strategize correctly and place the goal at the top of a ladder with the right intermediate goals, I have every chance of achieving it. Don’t get me wrong and think that I think it’s definitely going to happen. It may well not happen. But it could. It is definitely not impossible.

I guess the acid test will be seeing if, by six years from now, I have achieved it. Watch this space.