CHAPTER 8 – The Power of GOAL SETTING

The Power of Goal setting can be a powerful technique for planning your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn a vision of the future into reality. The process of setting goals help you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, therefore knowing where you have to concentrate your efforts. In fact, goal setting is generally accepted as among the most valid and useful motivation tool in sport psychology, industrial and organizational psychology.

Setting goals in your life is the single most important task. Manifesting your goals and life dreams does not depend on your education or on your ethnicity or cultural heritage, and is in no way determined by your environment. It is only the result of how and what you think! When you learn to live from this level, you can spontaneously fulfill your every desire. You can create miracles. The master key is learning to think deliberately!

You set your goals with your conscious mind; however, the real act of achievement is happening in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind uses about 85% of your brain mass. It is always in the present and its memory is infinite and beyond time.

Most people only tap a fraction of their capabilities, never even scratching the surface of possibilities lying dormant within them selves. They do not make the progress they would like to make and are fully capable of making. Why do so many fail to reach their potential? Simply because they have not clearly defined their goals!

Tap into you’re own subconscious mind?  for Success. Setting goals and intentions is a conscious exercise. While achieving goals is a subconscious exercise.

A captain of his vessel when guiding to its destination cannot take it by chance; with precision planning, plotting his path; byway with precise guidelines, doing things in a certain way with accuracy he will reach his goal within a scientific way and at an exact time. You too can use the same scientific principle in goal setting to become wealthy and rich.

Every Man and Woman will use some form of goal setting in their lives, in a sense our life is made up of smaller goals even if we don’t consider them as goals. A goal need not be something big and spectacular, not everyone wants to become a millionaire, however people in general want just a happy and comfortable life and their goals are therefore ordinary and simple ones. It is a sad fact that more that 85% of people in the western world will give more time and effort in planning their holiday goals than setting a goal in their business life.

Most people have small goals in their life; perhaps they may want to find a good job, or keep their current job, maybe promoted in their current job. There are people whose goal is to go to college and graduate. Others wish to travel abroad or take a vacation. Some desire to find love and others want to be healthy. Building a muscular body, learning to swim, learning to speak a foreign language, or just the desire look and dress good. Most of these goals are achievable and are within reach, and can fill most of our time without to much effort. When fulfilled, we either try to repeat them again and again, or move to other similar sized goals. You see, even if you think that you don’t have any goals, you actually have them and work toward achieving them.

The desire to become wealthy and rich, have fun, make life more comfortable and enjoyable are a commendable goal. Having clarity of purpose is important for the achievement of any goal, therefore your goal must be specific and clear and not something vague. While it’s fun to dream about being rich and successful, you have to know and define what you really and truly want to get or achieve. Clarity of purpose is important for your success. When there is clarity of purpose you know what steps to take. With clarity of purpose you focus on the goal, without wasting time or energy. Clarity of purpose is like focusing a strong source of light on your goal, so that you see it clearly. The amount of money and within a given time is important to clarify, so that the subconscious mind plans the realization.

Your Goal must be a total commitment and understood while being agreed upon within your own mind if it’s to be effective. Having  Will-Power and Self Discipline will go hand in hand, it does mean that your goal should be consistent and in line with a commitment.
As with any goal setting, make sure that you build in a realistic time scale for the attainment.

Affirming you goal in writing is an important part of subconscious programming, writing your goal down on paper; you are indelibly setting your goal in stone for your subconscious to work a plan. Clarify the amount you require, in the given time, and most importantly how you intend to commit any labour to the task within the time scale.

At the stage of writing your goal on paper, don’t be too concerned on the intricacies of how you will accomplish your goal as your conscious mind has no concern or conception at this moment especially of how you will achieve. Within the time scale stated in your affirmation, your subconscious mind will present you with idea’s that may come in urges or visions, when you least expect them, they may come early or later.

Remember your most powerful asset is your subconscious mind, and on many occasions that name that was on the tip of your tongue that you cant remember instantly, will suddenly appear when you least expect it. The same in planning your goal, the subconscious mind will work on the preparation with the help of the universal consciousness it will present to you out of the vast universe your master plan.  You have to be very confident in this realization, however don’t expect your riches to come rolling down the high street into your pocket out of thin air, you have to act upon your subconscious signals’ if in doubt go back and digest the subconscious mind revealed.

How to Set a Successful Goal?
Successful goal setting include this magic formula;
Planning ahead, using affirmations and visualization, being focused, open-minded, patient, self disciplined, motivated, ambitious and positive.

Here are a few tips to help developing your goal

1.    Know how much you want and write it down on paper the exact amount. Write your goal down: This will crystallize it and give more power to the subconscious mind. Set a realistic goal: It is important to set a goal that you can achieve within a reasonable time and a specified amount
2.    Scrutinize why you want to achieve this amount, and what you will gain by achieving it.
3.    Make certain in your mind with a burning desire that you in fact want to achieve this goal. State your goal as a positive statement: convey your goal positively to the subconscious mind each and every day
4.    Gain as much knowledge as you possibly can for achieving this amount. Appertaining to your knowledge of what you already know.
5.    See pictures about the amount for example; add a few noughts to your bank statement. Collect pictures; bundles of money as the images will burn into the urges of your subconscious.
6.    Imagine the amount clearly in your minds eye. Practise visualization of the amount you desire.  
7.    In your mind visualize as if you already own that amount. Cut up rolls of paper, wrap them inside genuine notes of money and feel as if you are already rich.
8.    Be specific as to the exact amount of money you want and affirm in your mind the ultimate outcome.
9.    Learn to focus your mind on the amount at all times until its part of your daily thought pattern.
10.  Demonstrate persistence and self discipline in your life.
Every goal has to start with a plan and each plan has to have steps, starting this process with your ultimate Goal, and work down to the things you can do today to start moving towards them.

Goal setting is something most of us recognize as necessary for our future success. By setting a sharp, clearly defined goal, you can evaluate and take pride in the achievement. By setting your goal, you will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your ability and competence in achieving your goal reassuring yourself of additional greater successes.

When you have achieved your goal, take the time to enjoy the satisfaction of having done so. Absorb the implications of the goal achievement, and always thank the Universal Consciousness for its gift.

If you haven’t already set a goal, do so by starting now. Before you go on to the next chapter; put this book aside until you do so. As you make this technique of goal setting part of your life, you'll find you are already becoming rich in your mind.

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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