Use
MTO Goals to Improve Your Results
I talk
a lot about goal setting and goal getting, and
one of the best tools I’ve learned recently is
called MTO - minimum, target, and
outrageous.
A few
weeks back at his Advanced Breakthrough to
Success Seminar, Jack Canfield taught us this
powerful tool to get you into ACTION, and
a light bulb went off in my head. It’s so
simple, and yet very, very effective. It will
change your results immediately!
Let’s
say I have a goal to get to my ideal weight
(which is true, and you’ll hear more about that
in the upcoming weeks). One of the actions that
I know will help me achieve and maintain that
goal is exercise. Here’s where MTO comes
in.
M – Minimum activity.
If you were ready to go to bed and had not yet
reached your goal, what is the minimum
level of activity you are willing to commit to,
no matter what? For the ideal weight goal, mine
is 5 minutes. So I’m willing to absolutely
commit to a minimum of 5 minutes of exercise
daily – simple right? Anybody can get in motion
for 5 minutes.
Now 5
minutes may not seem like much, and it’s really
not in the grand scheme of things. But it’s
HUGE in terms of goal getting. Why? Because it
allows me to have a success for the day, instead
of feeling like a failure.
Instead
of going a day without exercising, I continue to
do the actions, though small they may be, but
momentum gets started with just one little
push. Often, I start exercising for the 5
minutes and end up doing a little bit more,
sometimes a lot more. But had the goal been 20
minutes, and I was tired, I probably wouldn’t
have done anything. See the power in this?
T – Target activity.
This is the target, or ideal level of activity
to achieve your goal. For instance, my daily
target level is 20 minutes of cardio, or 30
minutes of basketball.
O – Outrageous activity.
This is the level of activity that would simply
be outrageous and get me to my goal
lightning-quick. My outrageous amount is an
hour a day.
Now
let’s look at my weekly MTO goals…
M – 2
days a week, T – 4 days a week, O
– 6 days a week
I have
to tell you that I am so much more inspired to
do my exercises now, because I set achievable
goals and gave myself permission to succeed on 3
different levels a day, and 3 different levels
each week, instead of the all-or-nothing
approach without flexibility, setting myself up
for failure on a daily basis.
Tell me
if this rings a bell…In the past, I would work
out like crazy for a week or two, looking for
results (those of you in our coaching programs
know that doesn’t work). When I was unhappy
with the results, I’d stop working out because I
didn’t want to keep feeling like a failure.
And
then several months later, when I got to the
point where I was sick of being overweight
again, I’d go like gangbusters for two more
weeks. It was a constant, vicious cycle I had
created, and it wasn’t helping me at all.
With
this new concept, I’m on the right path because
it’s so much easier to stay inspired to
ACT everyday. And the more I succeed,
the more I want to continue to succeed, so it’s
a positive cycle this time.
Small
successes lead to medium successes which lead to
your dreams.
Too
often, people set a goal and when they don’t
achieve it, they punish themselves. They get
mad, irritated, frustrated, and upset, and then
they end up scrapping the goal altogether,
telling themselves that they just can’t do it.
But
adopting the MTO concept changes all of
that. Because success is easier to accomplish,
you’ll feel good, you’ll be happier, and you’ll
have a much better chance to get what you want.
Take
this concept, apply it to all of your goals, and
watch your results soar. In Mary Kay for
instance, you can set daily and weekly MTO’s
around phone calls, handing your business card
out, etc – any ACTIVITY. (Make sure it’s
an activity and not a result that
you don’t control (like holding skin care
classes, getting a name & number, selling,
etc.)
Enjoy
the Journey! ;-)
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It
was really windy, so everyone's hair was flying
everywhere (except mine of course), but we still
managed to have a good time.
