How Do You Start Goal Setting?
To achieve true success and happiness we must allow ourselves to dream about the things we really want!
How to Start Goal Setting
Most of us only focus on goals we believe are realistic, or reasonably within our grasp.
But to achieve true success and happiness we must allow ourselves to dream about the things we really want, no matter how big these things might be.
Focus On Your Goals
This goal-setting article will help you move past your limitations and focus your energies on your highest goals.
Take just a minute to consider how you want your life to look five years from now.
- Think about your ideal standard of living.
- How much money will you have?
- What will you be doing for a living?
- Where will you live and what will your home be like?
- Will you have a mate or partner, and if so what will they be like?
- What will you be better at, such as the way you lead or how you interact with others?
Detailed Goals
Make your goals as detailed as possible.
Visualise every part of your life exactly as you want it to be five years in the future.
Once you’re done, review your vision.
See What You Truly Want
Are you allowing yourself to see what you truly want, or are you holding back because of the need to be realistic?
Here’s an easy way to find out if you’re being fully honest with your goal-setting about what you want from life five years from now.
Do the visualisation exercise again, only this time pretend you could wave a magic wand and have things exactly the way you want them.
Don’t Limit Your Vision
If you had a magic wand there would be no reason to limit your vision, right?
So go ahead and set your goals the way you really want them to be.
If you don’t like the analogy of a magic wand, pretend you have made friends with a multi-billionaire who is willing to cut you a check for any amount so you can fund your dream life.
Dream Your Ultimate Life
If this were the case your goal setting could be for pretty much anything imaginable so let go and really dream up your ultimate life.
Odds are your ideal life situation looked considerably different the second time you did the visualisation exercise.
By default, most of us restrict ourselves when we set goals and/or think about how we want life to be, but it only takes a simple exercise to loosen these restrictions and envision the way we truly want things to be.
Devine Goal Setting
Another version of this goal-setting exercise is to imagine how you would make your life if you were god.
In this simulation, you are able to cast aside any and all limitations because most people think of god as an unlimited being with unlimited power. Give this one a try and think about how you would create your life five years into the future.
Many times when people apply one of the tactics above they are shocked to see just how much they were limiting themselves before.
Removing Limitations
This can be a great eye-opener that will help you remove limitations and restrictions you have been unconsciously living with.
And these exercises need not be used solely for visualising the distant future.
Five years is a great point for visualisation, but you can use these liberating goal-setting techniques for short-term goals as well.
Short Term Goals
Instead of setting a goal to lose five pounds, why not look at what you really need to lose and go for it?
If you honestly need to lose 12 pounds then make this your goal and be confident you can do it.
Instead of wanting to make an extra £500 a month, why not find the figure that really makes you happy?
Set your sights on £1,000 or £2,000 or more!
You are the ultimate creator of your own reality.
It’s All In Your Head
Science has proven that what appears to be the world around you is actually a series of signals and communications taking place within your brain.
So there is absolutely no need to hold yourself back when goal setting from wanting what you really want.
Be aware of the limits you automatically impose on your thinking over the next few weeks.
When you catch yourself holding back, consciously let go and allow yourself to imagine things the way you really want to see them.
Highest Goals
Over time you will recondition your mind to allow more expansive thinking. And before you know it you’ll be able to easily visualise your highest goals and thus begin to manifest them into your reality.
Living in an abundance mindset is the simple, essential key to having a life of more than enough joy, freedom, love, and wealth.
This article was contributed by Timothy Aaron Whiston.
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