Hello Friend,
We all have a few goals that have felt too stuck, too big or too hard, for too long. These periodic messages can help you get those stuck goals moving.
This time, we focus upon the role our actions play in the allowing of our goals, even our seemingly stuck goals.
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Myth v Reality Brief: Our actions are not how we achieve our goals
Our actions, the work we do everyday, are not how we achieve our goals. In fact, no human has ever achieved a single goal, big or small, through action. Let me explain.
In the past few months, we’ve covered many topics. We’ve learned what it takes to finally achieve our stuck goals, we’ve experimented with the power of our thoughts, and then discussed the outcomes, and we’ve noted the only New Year’s Resolution that will move our stuck goals forward.
Now let’s move on to our actions. We were all taught that any great achievement would require a lot of hard work, sacrifice, toil. We were all taught that a lot of action, if it were the right action, performed well, would lead to the achievement of our goals. It’s a myth.
Myth: We humans achieve our goals based upon our work, effort, sacrifice, struggle and toil, along with tenacity and intelligence, and some good timing and good luck.
The truth is, we do not achieve our goals through action. We allow our goals by thinking thoughts that feel good, by thinking positive, good-feeling thoughts. Our actions have little to do with it.
Reality: It is our habitual thoughts, and it is only ever our habitual thoughts, that determine how readily we achieve our goals. Our actions are merely by-products, outputs, not inputs.
As we deliberately choose good-feeling, optimistic thoughts, we allow/attract the conditions, the seeming coincidences, the good-timing, the clarity, the opportunities, all of which lead to us allowing our goals, even those goals that up until now have seemed terribly stuck.
One of the conditions we allow/attract, is finding ourselves performing pleasing actions, enjoyable activities.
In fact, it’s not that our actions matter not. It’s just that our actions are not inputs. We do not and cannot achieve our goals by using our actions, or thinking of our actions, as inputs.
Our actions matter in only this way; they are harbingers, like the canaries in the coal mine, which help us understand what we are allowing/attracting.
If we find ourselves performing pleasing, enjoyable actions, and indeed seeming to perform those actions well, then we can know that we are operating our only input quite well. And our only input into the achieving of our actions is, again, our thoughts.
Something to consider: are you finding your days filled with actions and activities that are pleasing, that are enjoyable?
I hope you’ve found something herein to ponder.
These messages will always be brief, informative, thought-provoking, factual and accurate. They will challenge your understanding of life and how we achieve our goals. If you open your mind and heart, they will help you achieve your stuck goals.
Life is meant to be magical. We experience what we believe. If we believe our goals are big or hard, or stuck, that’s our experience. If we believe otherwise, we experience otherwise.
May we all believe in our goals,
Steve
Get Those Stuck Goals Moving
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“The key to having what you want is realising just how much you want what you have.”
-Stephen H. Southern
Myth v Reality
Myth: We humans achieve our goals based upon our work, effort, sacrifice, struggle and toil, along with tenacity and intelligence, and some good timing and good luck.
Reality: It is our habitual thoughts, and it is only ever our habitual thoughts, that determine how readily we achieve our goals. Our actions are merely by-products, outputs, not inputs.
Important P.S.A. Regarding “Success”
We are all equally successful. In fact, let’s stop using the term “successful” entirely. Every human alive today, from the pauper all the way down to the multi-billionaire, and somewhere in between there’s you and I, we’re all equally “successful.” Every human has achieved 99.9… percent of all their goals. And every human has a list of five or six goals that feel stuck, that feel too big or too hard. You have such a list. Whomever you look up to as a “successful” person, that person also has such a list. You’re both equal. We’re all equal. We’ve each achieved just about every goal we’ve ever wanted, except for our personal and unique list of five or six goals that feel stuck. And so, let’s stop using the term “successful.” And please, never allow anyone to make you feel less “successful” or “unsuccessful!” And NEVER do so to yourself!
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