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How to Set Goals
When it comes to achieving their goals most people struggle in two key areas: they don’t know what they want (their dream) and they don’t know how to take their dream and turn it into reality. The key part of making a positive change in your life is to have a strong dream and turn it into a realistic vision.
“A dream is the process of Imagination; A vision is the process of creation”
Ange Marsden
Here are some steps for finding out what your dreams are and turning them into a realistic, achieveable vision through goal setting. First look at your past. Set aside some time, maybe a day or even a week to be alone and think about your life. Write down what you love doing and what you dislike doing. It may help to go through all the jobs you’ve had in the past and pull out the parts of each job you did really well or loved doing. If you are planning to lose weight or deal with a habit or addiction, look at what you’ve done in the past and what did and didn’t work for you – there’s no point in going about things the same way if they didn;t work last time!
Daydream – this is the fun part! Imagine what you would do on your perfect day at work or at home. The two key points here are to: Discover a clear vision of what you really want to achieve and discover a strong “WHY”. The stronger your WHY, the easier it will be to stay focussed on your goals.
Fill the gap. To earn more you need to be worth more. What do you need to do to “upgrade” youself to pay for the extra income you desire? If you want more time, how can you make changes to your current lifestyle to find more? Write a list of what you need to “fill the gap” and another list of things you need to research. Next, do the research you need to fill in your information gaps. By now you’ll have a picture of where you are today, where you want to be and what you have to do to get from one to another. Write a SMART; Specific, Measureable, Achieveable, Realistic and Time specific. Break your goal down into smaller steps, or mini goals, that you need to take along the way.
Remember to celebrate! Many people are too hard on themselves and then fail to achieve their goals. Break your big goal down into lots of little tasks and lots of little celebrations. You don’t have to have a massive party every time but remember to give yourself a pat on the back or treat yourself to a manicure or a bottle of nice wine when you reach your targets.
Reveiw your progress every 90 days and see where your heading. If you’re off course do another “stock take” of what’s working, what’s not and what you need to learn. Reset new goals and KEEP GOING. Like an infant learning to walk, you’re going to fall over a few times but you’ll be glad you kept going rather than gave up and spent your life crawling!
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Creating A Better Life
In order to create a better life for yourself it is going to take change, and that change starts within your own mind. And as you learn to shift your thoughts from the negative to the positive you will find that life will begin to show a change for the better.
When we think repetitive thoughts that keep us in the same life loop it takes a change in our beliefs to create a new positive experience that we are happy to wake up to. Begin by observing your random daily thoughts. Are they a combination of worry and doubt or are they a mix of worry, joy, and possibly fear? Do you focus on the good in a situation or are you the one who complains even on a good day?
Begin digging deep within yourself and seeing where most of your daily thoughts lie. Then you can begin changing what you want for a life you want by shifting focus. Let’s say you desire a wonderful new life full of joyous experiences. You never want to have to worry about money or relationships ever again. You want a life that is just as you dreamed of. You begin to visualize and think about the life you want, envisioning a day in your life as the perfect day.
See it as if it is happening right at this very moment and build the wonderful feelings that are ‘in the now’. Do this as often as you like through the day but if any doubt seeps in, shift your mind to something else for a time. It isn’t in the visualization that causes a manifestation to slow down; it’s in all the daily stuff you deal with that creates a bit of a chaotic flow. In such circumstances you can go from joy to worry, frustration to happiness, negative to positive, and that creates a vibration that is a mixed signal.
Then begin working on how you react to situations. Retrain your mind to focus on the positive no matter what the situation may hold. Some will say,
“How can you possibly see the positive in that situation?” But you do your best to find something that feels positive within. Our eternal self within is purely positive. It understands unconditional love and knows success. When we are able to draw from that source within, the one that is eternally connected to the Universe, we find that everything is really fine.
We find that no matter what is happening in this physical world we are always eternally at ease within. Finding the vein within you is a treasure. It will guide and help you to understand that by relaxing and seeing all with ease you are signaling to the Universe a life of ease.
But first begin with your daily reaction. When something that normally frustrates you can be reacted to in a different way you’ve begun to change your old way of thinking. Knowing ease and that all is well within in any situation — even if you can’t figure out what is going to happen — will bring you ease. If you’re unable to think of a positive scenario, just shifting to a neutral state of mind can help. Neutral is better than an intense negative emotion that is signaling the Universe to ‘bring me more!’ But don’t stay in neutral for too long.
Look at it this way. When you drive a car you move forward in drive (the positive). If you go in reverse you move backward (the negative), and when you are in neutral you go nowhere. So make sure that once you’ve gotten to neutral, shift (think) forward. And instead of anticipating the worst you assume the best. You shift from negative to positive. It’s just as easy to worry about the worst as it is to assume the best. Both of these ways of thinking determine your life experiences through thought and focus. Don’t you think it would be better to live life assuming the best? As you begin to make these changes and gently retrain your old way of thinking to a new direction you will find a new life of new, positive experiences to fill your days.
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Beth and Lee McCain host a popular weekly radio show Radio LOA on Experience Radio and publish the national LOA magazine, The Indicator. You are invited to visit Beth and Lee McCain Law of Attraction Web Site for more Law of Attraction and positive thought and free study materials as well as many products to help guide you on your path.