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What is IDEAL?
While generally known as "the most natural process for our development and achieving ambitious goals, IDEAL is also a model for planning success and a lifestyle for self-development and living more meaningfully—at any age.
Who uses IDEAL?
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Goal-oriented people
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Business owners
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Trainers / Consultants / Coaches
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Managers & Team leaders
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Sales & Marketing pros
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Self-improvement zealots
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Health & fitness enthusiasts
How can IDEAL be used?
IDEAL guides the planning and effort toward whatever you want to improve, achieve, or become—whether in your life or business.
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Increase sales
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Improve physical fitness
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Lead a team or client to success
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Master a skill or expertise
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Launch and grow a business
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Maximize productivity
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Write and publish a book
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Earn a degree or professional rank
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Increase health and well-being
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Advance personal development
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Improve professional and personal relationships
Where do I start?
Before applying IDEAL, there are two important pre-planning steps to complete that will support your success:
KNOW YOUR CHARGE
Understand your subject. Many struggle to achieve their goals due to a lack of deep subject knowledge. Gaining clarity helps you determine the right goal for what you want to accomplish.
KNOW YOUR START POINT
Ensure you can meet your goal’s demands. Use the ADAPT model, a self-assessment checklist. This will help you identify the assets and gaps that could impact your success.
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INTEND
Know what you will achieve
Think about what "success" means to you. Without a clear finish line, your goal is vague and your efforts might lose focus. To keep things on track, make sure your goal is actionable. That means it should have two key parts:
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A clear success point: It needs to be specific, measurable, or verifiable.
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A vision: You should have a strong idea of how and when you'll reach that goal.
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DIRECT
Have a plan, know each step
Like a movie director, Direct is all about making decisions about how you'll achieve success. At this step, you choose your strategy, the key to your success. If you need a hand, try CLEAR. Without a well-defined strategy, even the best efforts can lose focus.
Here's how to kick things off:
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Choose your strategy: (Remember, CLEAR is there if you need guidance.)
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Outline your process: Identify the main actions and the supportive steps that will drive your success.
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Get prepared: Assess your needs and put together a Prep Checklist.
When you combine these core steps, you create a solid bridge from where you are now to where you want to be.
ENGAGE
Support your efforts
The Engage step tackles your Prep Checklist and RAS (requirements, agents, and safeguards) to ensure you’re ready to be productive. This is where you define exactly how you'll get results. Here’s what you do:
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Set your performance standards and schedule: Decide how you’ll measure success and plan your time.
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Mark your progress: Establish clear milestones to keep you on track.
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Pick your resources: Choose the tools and support you need.
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Put safeguards in place: Create measures that protect your progress and promote success.
Every detail here—from your motivation to your focus—plays a role in driving your productivity.
ASSESS
Know where you stand
The Assess step is all about making sure you know what's working and what isn't. It gives you a clear way to verify your progress and validate your plan—so you're never left guessing. Without a solid assessment framework, decisions can become a shot in the dark, putting your success at risk.
Here's what to do:
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Identify key questions: Pinpoint the critical issues that need answers.
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Set clear criteria: Define how you'll measure progress and results.
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Plan your data collection: Decide on the best way to gather and manage performance information.
By uncovering valuable insights from your efforts, you can fine-tune your approach and drive even greater success. Keep an eye out for those SWEET insights along the way!
LEARN
Be able to improve
The Learn step keeps IDEAL evolving, helping you build on what works and make smarter decisions. It takes what you uncover in Assess and turns it into better goals, plans, and strategies—so every effort becomes more effective. While Assess looks at results, Learn focuses on using those insights to keep improving.
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Set up ways to collect and organize what you learn.
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Find reliable sources to stay informed.
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Use tools to spot trends and patterns.
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Define clear rules for when to make changes.
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Build a system to track and manage improvements.
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Schedule regular check-ins to refine the process.
Learn turns experience—good or bad—into growth. Without it, mistakes repeat, and opportunities slip away.
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The key to your potential is IDEAL
IDEAL is the ultimate, inherently intuitive framework for success! IDEAL isn't just a model; it's a dynamic and interconnected process that gives order to our innate characteristics for remarkable achievements. Every day, we embody the traits of IDEAL – acting with intention, making decisions, engaging purposefully, assessing our situations, and continuously learning.
What sets IDEAL apart is its cyclical nature; each iteration builds on discovery and success, just as each day offers us an opportunity to make progress. But here's the game-changer: IDEAL provides the optimal arrangement of these traits into a seamless, step-by-step process, ensuring your best chance at success with what matters most to us. Apply IDEAL to whatever you want to improve, achieve, or become – in your life or for your business. IDEAL, where potential meets process, and success is not just a goal; it's the inevitable realization of your potential.
IDEAL Replaces SMART Goals as the Most Effective Approach to Personal and Business Success
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IDEAL is the most natural process for our development and successes.
IDEAL is an acronym for the five characteristics common among all successful goals. What you may not realize is that you naturally express these characteristics! If, however, you don't apply each one deliberately, and as a process, you cannot make your best effort to improve, achieve, and become what is important to you.
Learn how to apply IDEAL to your life of business, because IDEAL applies to you!
It's about the success of what's important to you
Learn a new way to improve, achieve, and become what is important to you—in your life or for your business.
IDEAL is an acronym for the most natural process for our development and the achievements of our personal and business goals.
IDEAL is easy to understand but requires learning to master. Get support from Steven
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Learn how to apply IDEAL to:
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Achieve your goals
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Build sales for a business
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Develop yourself
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Lead a team
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Improve productivity
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Manage a business
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Improve your health
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Develop / become your best self
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Improve relationships
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Coach or manage others
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Increase productivity
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Live deliberately
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Become more aware
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. . . and much more!
Don’t live on autopilot!
Stay active in telling the story of your life or your business.
Sometimes, we get caught up in routines, lose focus, and stop creating, building, and becoming.
Occasionally, we need to be reminded that we have aspirations, beliefs, desires, and time. So, what do you want to realize in your life or for your business?
Learn more: schedule a free consultation with Steven. Do it for yourself or for your business!
What's Special About IDEAL?
IDEAL is the world's most natural process for our development and the achievement of what's important to us—in our personal lives and for our businesses.
Every day, you express one or more of the five aspects of IDEAL. Learn how to apply IDEAL as a process to be improve, achieve, or become what is important to you.
