Beyond Luck – Non-visual Visualization

Let me ask you a question. When’s the last time you wrote out your goals? We’re always hearing we’ve got to have goals. Set them, they say, review them regularly, fill our minds with them. Only if we do that will those goals become urgent and real to us.

They say.

However, some people write out their goals, meditate on them, fill their minds with them, and visualize them every day, but then they don’t reach those goals.

I’m one of those people — or I was, years ago.

I was doing what they told me to do in all the books. I listened to the tapes and followed their suggestions. But somehow, I still wasn’t getting anywhere. Very little success to show for all that effort.

Care to venture a guess what was wrong with that picture?

Two big mistakes on my part.

First, I wasn’t injecting very much emotion into the visions of my “desirable” future. I was seeing the future, but since I wasn’t feeling that emotion of desire, I wasn’t really desiring it.

Second, and closely related, a number of those goals were not really mine. I’d heard lecturers talk about big, beautiful homes. Many authors had suggested that a nice home was everyone’s desire.

The truth was, though, I didn’t really desire that. I was far more fascinated with traveling, trying new experiences, meeting new people. I just wanted to go and do things. In fact, the whole idea of being tied down to one spot with a big house actually sort of depressed me. No wonder I wasn’t getting anywhere.

I had adopted somebody else’s idea of a desirable goal. That house I was imagining wasn’t mine. It was the goal of some writer or lecturer. I secretly didn’t want it, so guess what — I didn’t get it.

Meantime, the things that I did want — travel, adventure, lots of new friends — were receiving almost no attention from me. Thus, I didn’t get much of those, either.

Before you sit down to write out your goals, take a close look at how you really feel about them.

I was ashamed to admit, even to myself, that I didn’t want the things that so many other people considered important. I felt that this was a flaw in myself that needed to be fixed. In a word, I wanted to try and remake myself to be like other people.

That was a waste of time. I’d have been much better off directing my energies into what I did want. I would not only have been happier, I would also have been much more successful where it really counted.

So if you have a list of goals, and some of them simply are not manifesting, go back and take a second long look at the items you’ve written there. It’s possible you’re taking somebody else’s idea of a great goal and trying to cram it down your own throat.

And if you don’t have a list, get busy and make one today. Now that you know how to keep all your goals honest, you’ll be much more likely to move forward directly to what you want in life.

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