Act In the Direction of Your Goal
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
(please pardon the “he” references) Henry David Thoreau
When an image is created in the mind, focused on, repeatedly reinforced and steadfastly believed in, it sets in motion forces unknown to us. It’s as if there is something out there or around us that responds to what we truly believe we can achieve once a firm decision is made. People and circumstances show up, ideas come to act on and it feels as if achieving that goal is a certainty. We see a way to do it.
There hasn’t been anyone of achievement who knew how there were going to achieve their goal. There is a story about John F. Kennedy asking Dr. Werner Von Braun , the preeminent rocket scientist of the 20th century, what it would take to reach the moon before the Soviet Union in the early 1960’s. Dr. Von Braun’s answer was very simple.
“The will to do it.”
Thomas Edison was the same way. He had only a vague idea of how to create a lightbulb. However, he had a very clear goal of creating one. If he knew what he was doing, it would have taken slightly less than 10,000 attempts to create it.
These men didn’t know how they would do it but they did know that if a goal was set and believed in, a way would be found. All that was needed was the will, a mental faculty that we all possess, to do it.
This is true for you, me and everyone who has a mind to think and, more importantly, an imagination.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
If a goal is set and believed in, I mean really believed in, it will be achieved. Building belief to achieve something that has never been done takes will and mental toughness. This is not for the faint of heart. You must have faith that you can achieve whatever goal you set out to achieve. Your faith cannot waiver. You must absolutely, without doubt, believe you can do it or
don’t even try.
If you begin to work on achieving a goal that you don’t feel you can accomplish, you have failed before you have begun. You have planned to fail by not beleiving that you can accomplish the goal. Why start something without a successful outcome in mind? Worry, doubt and fear will not help you to reach your goal. Your subconscious mind will work for you toward failure or success depending on what it’s fed from the conscious mind because it doesn’t judge the outcome, it just gives you who you are not what you want. Whatever goal you choose, believe it and you will achieve it.
Be Present to and in Alignment with the Moment
When you have your belief and you’re reinforcing it to yourself many times a day, be alert for ideas from any source. If you are alert, you will recieve “signs”, so to speak, of the direction you’ll need to go to accomplish your goal. It may not make sense at the time, it may even seem to take you away from where you want to go. It’s like a detour in the road.
Imagine you’re on a trip to San Francisco from Sacramento. You’ve got the route planned, you know how to reach your destination. Then, an hour ahead of you, a truck carrying 40 tons of dried kiwi fruit and banana chips tips over closing the route you’ve chosen. What do you do?
Adjust.
Being the alert TTL blog reader that you are, you’ve got the AM radio on, hear about the accident and adjust your route to meet the circumstances you’re faced with. Reaching your goals is just the same. If you are alert and present to the circumstances around around you, you’ll be able to change course and get to your goal when you plan to do so.
Building Belief
Some years ago, I learned a technique that has helped me to create unshakable belief in what I wanted to create in my life. It’s called the “Mirror Technique”, or at least that’s how I remember it. The name isn’t as important as the effect it has on the mind.
After you’ve discovered your goal, created a clear mental image of it through writing, reviewing and rewriting, condense it down to a few words on a small card that helps to trigger that image in your mind when it’s read. Once you’ve done this, read the card several times a day taking time to imagine yourself achieving your goal.
Then, look yourself in a mirror, look directly into your eyes and repeat your goal affirmation to yourself. Say it with intensity. Reinforce it to yourself that you’re the sort of person who accomplishes goals, you are a doer and you get things done. Build yourself up by remembering your past success and then be present for the opportunity to make it happen!
When you see the way, do not hesitate, act now on the ideas that come from nowhere to now here. They will come, they always do.
Whew! That was fun…
Tags: acheivement, conscious mind, goals, subconscious mind, Success