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QLA: How to Set Goals and Create Effective Affirmations
Table of Contents:
1. Summary - Importance of Goals/Affirmations + what all seminar attendees know.
2. How to set goals - Article written by the Man himself - Dan Pena
3. Affirmations - 2 exceptional video links for the specifics and 1 example
4. Conclusion - Just fucking do it!
Summary:
After reviewing an exceptional seminar clip again, I think we are due for a comprehensive How To:
for setting Goals and creating effective Affirmations. A major pillar of the QLA method is setting big
bodacious, over-the-top goals you cannot accomplish in your lifetime. Once you’ve set goals you
want to accomplish, you will then cement them into your life as already accomplished through
affirmations. You make your successes and goals a way of life, your new fact pattern, your new
default. If you’ve spoken to any mentees, you will soon find out they all say the same things; join
Toastmasters, just fucking do it, build and leverage your emotional bank account - AFFIRMATIONS,
AFFIRMATIONS, AFFIRMATIONS.
Success leaves clues.
Setting New Goals for the New Year
(This was an article written by Dan for London Real a few years back, but just as relevant today)
As is my custom for many years, I sat down between Christmas and New Year to go over my
schedule of goals. These include my personal, family and business goals. I too remember what gets
measured gets done! During the month of January, I then fine tune these goals! And then I go into
action with my QLA WAR PLAN, like it was my last 2 minutes of my last super bowl/ world cup, of my
life! I make it fucking happen and failure is not an option!
Here are a few guidelines for goal setting. As usual conventional wisdom is wrong on many points!
DISREGARD WHAT I WRITE AT YOUR OWN PERIL!
WRITTEN, REVIEWED, CHANGED and AFFIRMED!
with all my various positive affirmations. Now I read goals monthly and affirmations daily before I go
to bed! I check off the goals accomplished. I also change or adjust goals monthly. This is not a new
technique and athletes of all descriptions have been following this procedure forever! I CAN’T
EMPHASIZE TOO STRONGLY, HOW IMPORTANT AND POWERFUL AFFIRMATIONS IN THE MORNING
UPON WAKING AND JUST BEFORE YOU GO TO SLEEP ARE IN FULFILLING YOUR GOALS AND DREAMS!
NO TIME LIMITS!
your goals must be accomplished – as soon as humanly possible! ASAHP! I have found time limits act
as deterrents rather than benchmarks. Similarly in school you were given so much time to get
something done – by God it took you that much time! I also found time limits allow you to agree with
conventional wisdom much too easily. I was told countless times, don’t be in such a hurry, you are
way ahead of schedule now! I didn’t listen much to that – thank God!
NOT REALISTIC! BE BODACIOUS!
Another conventional precept is the notion of setting realistic goals. Of course this is advised so you
don’t feel badly and discouraged when you don’t accomplish your goals. Guess what! If you are not
risking anything you don’t have sufficient incentive to do "whatever it takes" to get the job
completed. If the goal and the actions to achieve them aren’t taking you out of your comfort zone –
they aren’t making you really stretch! And by now you know WTF I mean when I say, I am committed
to something! LOL! In the future, I will right about how your lack of commitment has held you back
in being ALL YOU CAN BE!
PERSONAL GOALS!
I have had two sets of personal goals dating back to 1976: 1) Goals that I talk about and may have
some other participants; and 2) What Jim Newman used to call "under the skin goals". The later
goals are very private and are shared with only your significant other and mentor. These "under the
skin goals" are of a very personal nature that are only shared with those that will provide
encouragement and support. If your partner in life does not share your enthusiasm, don’t share and
consider a new partner! These special goals at times, may seem of an embarrassing nature, but are
of extreme importance to your overall wellbeing and success. And yes, if your partner is not part of
your goal scheme, it has little chance of succeeding. My experience is most relationships, both
personal and business, bust up because goals are different. Of course if your partner has the same
goals, but a different level of sacrifice they are willing to endure – THE PARTNERSHIP WILL ALSO
BUST UP!
FAMILY GOALS!
My family goals have varied over the years based on where my children were in their own life cycles.
Many of these goals should be jointly set when the kids are young. And children’s goals (for
themselves) will vary a great deal, but if you get them in the habit of setting goals, they will by
default get in the habit of achieving goals. As your family grows so do your goals. I learned, my ideas
of what my children should do varied greatly, from what they thought they should do. With any kind
Search r/DanPenais a must! As Plato said, "as long as progress is being made, no
of goal setting positive reinforcement
matter how slowly, never discourage". I would differ with the great master on the slowness. As any
of my mentees would tell you – DAN IS NOT BIG ON BEING SLOW, EXCEPT WHEN HAVING SEX! LOL!
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Search is meant as a wakeup call for you to take fucking action for this New
Year. This is a great time to "dream it" – "think it" and "do it", as Bill Gates would say! Take action to
evoke positive change in your life! So in the words of my mentor, Jim Newman – "Release Your
Brakes!" (Note: Release Your Brakes can be found on Scribd.com) He believed, and I concur, most
people go through life, due to lack of self-esteem, filled with self-doubt, with their emergency brake

PENA PERSONAL GOALS! on. Hence, not fulfilling anywhere near their full human potential and not being all you can be!

Let me wish you and yours the happiest and the most meaningful and prosperous New Year
As many of you know my father’s only goal for me was to keep me alive until I reached the age of
possible.
reason. For me this came later than most. My military experience changed my life. Though I knew
what discipline and integrity meant intellectually from childhood from my father, I didn’t really To Your Quantum Leap in Life & Business!
understand the emotional commitment necessary to succeed. When I was deemed "an officer and a
gentleman" by an act of the United States Congress, it meant a massive turning point in my life. It Daniel S. Peña, Sr
still means a great deal to me even now! This was an "under the skin goal" (though I didn’t call it that
back then) that I shared with no one. In those days I had no mentor, or significant other. At that time
I knew my life would have little or no meaning the way I was headed. I had no focus! So I took a big Checkpoint:
risk! I stretched way outside my existing comfort zone. I volunteered for an additional stint in the US Take the time right fucking now to write out 10 Goals. After you’ve written your 10, keep
Army by going for officer training. Actually it was the second step of my "under the skin goal" of reading.
making something of myself. I had already volunteered to go into the army at the height of the
Vietnam war. My father had told me the military has straightened out countless young men before
me. And, he added, "if you can make it, son, be an officer". I didn’t share with anyone, I had Affirmations:
volunteered till I was out of the army. The bottom line is it worked!! The rest is history as they say.
A good order is:

1. May 2016 - Day 4 Part 3

BUSINESS GOALS! 2. February 2019 - Day 5 Part 3

These are no different than the family and personal goals. You follow the same pattern. The only
After you’ve reviewed and taken notes on the videos, begin then to take your goals and create
difference is you will undoubtedly find more wrong advice than you can ever imagine. Most people
affirmations associated with them. One goal and an affirmation: make it colorful, nothing you write
will have something to say about things they know a little about, like having kids and raising them,
will ever be too bodacious, ever be too overwhelming. Remember, Big, Bodacious, Over-the-top.
etc. The same is true of your personal goals. After all everyone has lived a little, and learned
something about life. But when it comes to business, every dog on the street has some crap to say. Example from the second video:
From the guy in the post office, to the high school football coach, they all have some comment. And
the problem is we listen to them, because we don’t know much about business ourselves. Therefore Goal: Form new Bodacious Extraordinary Habits of a High Performance Person.
if you get nothing more from this blog, unless the person giving business advice has been there and
Affirmation: I am ecstatic, overwhelmed, how easy I attract good habits, high performance people
done what you aspire to do, don’t listen! Remember even the average accountant (CPA/Chartered
and how easily I can lead people and enforce QLA in being all that I can be.
Accountant) and lawyer only makes less than 100,000K pa. So if you want more than that, don’t ask!
The same goes for parents, in-laws, brothers, sisters, kids and colleagues. Unless your name is
Buffett, Branson, Perot, Rockefeller, or Gates forget about listening to them! Of course, you can read
Conclusion:
all my free content on my site, or other QLA material on torrent!
One of my favorites quotes taken from Dan’s January 2019 seminar is:
What I have written is meant to be a few succinct points on goal setting. I have written and talked
much about this topic over the years. My overall experience is that people who set goals use only “Why all the sudden from being an also-ran piece of dog shit are you going to be Jesus Christ
average benchmarks. Yes, almost all people set goals too low! They do this due to their lack of self- Superstar? Because your brain doesn’t know - THAT'S WHY AFFIRMATIONS WORK SO
esteem and not wanting to get out of their comfort zone. It is also due to listening to people that EFFECTIVELY, BECAUSE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS DOESN’T KNOW YOU’RE FULL OF SHIT. When
have set unfulfilled goals themselves! And goal setting is an art, not a science. you tell yourself you’re a trillionaire, your subconscious doesn’t know you aren’t right now.
When you tell your subconscious a million times, every success you get is a self-fulfilling
prophecy.”
WAKE UP CALL!
Your financial bank account is a direct reflection of your emotional bank account. Set goals, create
affirmations and say them twice daily, at a minimum. Take action, keep pushing and just fucking do
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 S33K3R7 14 points · 8 months ago · edited 8 months ago BODACIOUS

 From the First Video:
OVER THE TOP

UNCONVENTIONAL
Steps:
CANT ACCOMPLISH IN MY LIFETIME
1. Compile a list of everything I/(you) want.
2. Convert that want list into a goal list
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3. Convert your goal list into affirmations (as above minimum 20)
4. Begin each affirmation with "I am".  MidasFinger 4 points · 6 months ago · edited 6 months ago
5. Add an Emotion word to each affirmation  Pleased, accept this as a thank you for How you help us, Mr Commah.
6. Write each affirmation in the present tense using a verb that ends in "ING" Understand the role of affirmations. It has more effect than you might think.
7. Say each affirmation out loud twice daily
Here's some article about the topic, you can find many authors in the subject.

https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/daily-affirmations/#science
Example:
So, let's review why its necessary to say your affirmations going to sleep, and getting out of
WANT: I want to Increase my net worth by $5mil a month bed. When you're going to sleep, you are relaxed in a manner that the frequency of your
brain reaches the Theta Frequency, wich is between 4Hz–8Hz. This is the same frequency
you reach during hypnosis. Having established that, it is known that in Theta frequency is
related to a increase to sugestion, that is in our case, our affirmations.
converts to:
So, going to sleep, and gettin' up, its easier to begin an voluntary change in frequency of
the brain, through calm breathing and emptying of the consciousness. You should feel
relaxed. And then you start your affirmations. Gettin' rid of anxiety is a key factor to
GOAL: My net worth has increased by $5mil "or More" a month "every month" (Quotes
repeating over, and over, and over, without loosing focus or the meaning of the words.
mean new and important addons/ words to use when creating your goal)
You'r brain is an organic computer. Make sure to be feeding It with the information that'll
get you closer to your leap.
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AFFIRMATION: (#4) "I AM" "(#5) HAPPY" and easily increas"ING"(#6) the amount of my net  buddah_ownage 3 points · 7 months ago
worth $5mil "or more" "every" Month.  really great work your are doing here!!! Kudos and keep up the great work!!!
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 diego_hereje 2 points · 4 months ago
 Another great video is Day 4 Part 3 | August 2019 https://youtu.be/UqukRKhdquc
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 sremani79 2 points · 3 months ago

 Day 4 Part 3 | August 2019
is a good video for affirmation compilation - where Dan dissects how goals and
affirmations should be created.
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