?I need to know how to achieve your goals because I already know about setting goals and am still achieving very little.? Wrote Helen, an ayecasher regular reader; this brief message written at the end of last week kept repeating itself in my mind over the weekend. Finally I decided to quit everything and write an article on reaching goals because it is so significant to the essence of this websiteas well as the essence of being successful.
When it comes to how to achieve goals I truly believe in a gem of Eastern philosophy: ?When you find the right question the answer will materialise.? Japanese people will often ponder a question for many years before they ever come out and ask it; when they do ask the question is so sensible and logical that the answer is almost immediate. It is usually the right answer too.
So let us take this system of getting the question right and use a little writer?s license and apply the same philosophy to achieve your goals. Usually in the western way of thinking everything must be immediate and that comes to goal setting too.
We also have a fixation about money using the principle that everything costs something so if my goal is money I?ll soon be able to afford everything. Therefore many of us set a goal resembling: ?My goal is to have one millions dollars in two years.? Or: ?My goal is to have ten million dollars in five years.? I hold my hand up here and admit to setting my goals in this manner for many years until one day I awoke to a blinding flash of the obvious.
Today I use a different system to achieve my goals by visualizing what I want to achieve in terms other than monetary. Some of the things I have visualized are:
- My dream home in a dream location. - The car I want. - Where and how I will travel. - The legacy I will leave when I die. - How I want people to think of me after I leave this earth.
There are many more but the above will give you an idea of the way that my mind works these days. I truly believe in the Power of Attraction and I know that my sub-conscious mind is capable of reaching every goal I set providing I can truly visualize it.
What I write here isn?t new or unique these principles were in place from the very first days of the human race. The problem is people have lost the art of visualization. Our powers of visualization start being attacked from our first day at school.
Remember those beautiful colourful pictures your children used to paint of you when they?d give you purple hair and green lips. What happened to them from day 1 at school everything changed. Teachers told them people don?t have purple hair or green lips your picture isn?t realistic! That is the start of a routine called education that is designed to turn out like thinking robots by the time graduation is achieved. In general visualization is dead by the time you are around age seven or eight.
If you cannot visualize where you want to be you can never reach a destination. Sadly, this is why so many people live their entire life without getting close to their true potential.
In summary, one way of achieving goals is to bring back visualization and to build a mental picture of what you want out of life and truly believe that you are capable of doing it. The most common reason for failing to achieve your goals is that you don?t truly believe that you can achieve them. This is because you set your early goals too high and fail to achieve them. Then you start doubting your ability and worth.
If you are new to goal setting do yourself a favour and set a fairly easy achievable goal. It may be something so simple as to save 2% or 5% of your gross wage for an entire year to enable you to buy a new computer at the end of the year. To motivate yourself to do this you must visualize the computer and all the added benefits that it will have that your present computer doesn?t have.
Visualize it before you go to sleep each night and when you wake up each morning. When you reach this milestone and the new computer is on your desk you will know that you can achieve your goals and suddenly the world will open to you.
Those interested in achieve your goals will probably be interested in goals and outcomes too.
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