You can experience anything you want. Goals, dreams, and wishes do
come true. What you focus on the most will show up!
Is your self talk serving or supporting you? Are you beginning with
negative or positive ends in mind?
Goal-setting is a simple but important process. Goals are rarely
just met; instead, we identify a course, and continue to change lanes as we approach
our original outcome. Identifying objectives is really about creating directed
intention.
What is most important to you? Where would you like to point your
time, focus, and resources over the next year? Consider such areas as financial
stewardship, professional development, family relationship, career enhancement,
and community involvement. Out of these areas you will find some specific goals:
You will identify a future that looks different from today.
There are two very good reasons to develop goals. Goals give you:
1) a reason to engage your creativity; and 2) an opportunity to enhance your awareness.
• Creativity: Clearly identify what
you want, and you’ll get there faster.
• Awareness: Your senses are heightened
and your world seems to respond by providing new information (or information that
was always there—you just had not noticed it yet) to get closer to that
goal.
This has much to do with goal-setting. If you have seen everything
about a project you are managing, stop and reconsider. Look at the backside; raise
your perspective; initiate a new way to focus on that thing; find something you
have never seen before, and use to your advantage. “Your automatic creative
mechanism is teleological—it operates in terms of goals and end results,”
said Maxwell Maltz.
What would you like to experience over the next year? Write some
of these down in your calendar, on the exact date one year from today. Through
effective and deliberate goal-setting, you will get all of this and more. Goals,
dreams, and wishes do come true! Direct your focus toward something, and it will
show up—you can let me know in a year how it went! PE
