James Malinchak Interviewed on NPR on In the Air in Nevada Community College Part 4 of 8
This info is part 4 of 8 transcribed from an interview of James Malichak on NPR radio show In the Air.
James: It's as easy as if you have to run 2-3 errands. Number one you have to pick up your dry cleaning. Number two you have to get your car washed. Number three you have to go to the grocery store. If you write those two or three little things down on a sheet of paper and look at it tomorrow when you wake up it reminds you that you have to do these three things, and it directs you to go and do those two or three things. If you didn't write those two or three things down you may have forgotten to pick up your dry cleaning or forgotten to go to the grocery store. This is no different for succeeding in life. If you don't write it down you're not consistently reminding yourself and programming your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and get them completed? It keeps reminding your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and you have to figure out how to accomplish them. You are exactly right, I always say you write them down and hang them on your bathroom mirror so that you have to see them every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to sleep.
John: That looks like a formula for developing commitment.
James: Certainly.
John: People have to commit to doing something if they're going to change and improve. Because that is what you're actually advocating.
James: Here's another big key element that a lot of people don't teach you when they teach you goal setting. Don't just write what you want to accomplish, you also have to write down the potential reward you'll get when you accomplish your goal and then you form a picture, and you think about that picture. If you want to make more money, well why? I want to pay for my child's college education, that's why I want to make more money. Then I want you to imagine your child graduating from college. Maybe it's the first child in your family that graduated from college.
You've got a purpose now. What you're doing is what I call a red hot "Why" for yourself. When you create that purpose inside you it ignites your passion, and that's important for when you come across roadblocks along the way toward your goal. Once you ignite that passion within you and I really believe that instantly catapults you into what I call the power, which is the final result. If you've got that passion and you're centering on the purpose, which the vision, the benefit, the payoff is of why you're doing this, you'll find a way to accomplish it.
See Part 5 of 8 to go through the remainder of this interview.
James: It's as easy as if you have to run 2-3 errands. Number one you have to pick up your dry cleaning. Number two you have to get your car washed. Number three you have to go to the grocery store. If you write those two or three little things down on a sheet of paper and look at it tomorrow when you wake up it reminds you that you have to do these three things, and it directs you to go and do those two or three things. If you didn't write those two or three things down you may have forgotten to pick up your dry cleaning or forgotten to go to the grocery store. This is no different for succeeding in life. If you don't write it down you're not consistently reminding yourself and programming your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and get them completed? It keeps reminding your subconscious mind that you've got to do these things and you have to figure out how to accomplish them. You are exactly right, I always say you write them down and hang them on your bathroom mirror so that you have to see them every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to sleep.
John: That looks like a formula for developing commitment.
James: Certainly.
John: People have to commit to doing something if they're going to change and improve. Because that is what you're actually advocating.
James: Here's another big key element that a lot of people don't teach you when they teach you goal setting. Don't just write what you want to accomplish, you also have to write down the potential reward you'll get when you accomplish your goal and then you form a picture, and you think about that picture. If you want to make more money, well why? I want to pay for my child's college education, that's why I want to make more money. Then I want you to imagine your child graduating from college. Maybe it's the first child in your family that graduated from college.
You've got a purpose now. What you're doing is what I call a red hot "Why" for yourself. When you create that purpose inside you it ignites your passion, and that's important for when you come across roadblocks along the way toward your goal. Once you ignite that passion within you and I really believe that instantly catapults you into what I call the power, which is the final result. If you've got that passion and you're centering on the purpose, which the vision, the benefit, the payoff is of why you're doing this, you'll find a way to accomplish it.
See Part 5 of 8 to go through the remainder of this interview.