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 look at our emotions and how they guide us to thoughts that allow our goals.
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Myth v Reality Brief: Our emotions are our internal GPS
Our emotions tell us whether we’re allowing or blocking our seemingly stuck goals. Like the GPS in our cars, our emotions lead us to the thoughts that allow our goals to manifest.
In the past few notes, 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 that our actions are not how we achieve our goals.
Now let’s move on to more detail on how our emotions help us allow our seemingly stuck goals.
Our thoughts determine our emotions. When we focus upon a subject that is pleasing to us, we feel a host of positive emotions. When we focus upon a subject that is displeasing to us, we feel a host of negative emotions.
The Reality is: 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.
When we focus upon thoughts that feel good, we’re following our GPS, we’re allowing our goals. When we focus upon thoughts that don’t feel good, we’re ignoring our GPS, we’re blocking our goals. That’s really all there is to it.
And while the following explanation is greatly simplified, it generally helps those who are new to this knowledge to understand why good-feeling thoughts are the key.
As we focus upon good-feeling thoughts, as we feel a host of positive emotions, we are far more open to and accepting of life. We feel more optimistic. An idea comes to us and we’re less likely to judge it harshly. We bump into an old or new friend and we’re likely to be more kind, more welcoming, more inquisitive.
As we strive to spend more of each day focused upon good-feeling thoughts, we start to notice more aspects of our lives that are pleasing. We tend to see less of the displeasing aspects of our lives and, instead, see evermore pleasing aspects.
Further, when opportunities come our way, first, we’re more likely to notice them. With our better-feeling, more positive and optimistic demeanour, we tend to see the pleasing aspects of ever more situations. And so, we start to see more situations as potential opportunities.
Second, we feel more welcoming and open to opportunities because we’re not feeling weighed down by problems. Our lives feel lighter and less busy, less cluttered, and so we’re more open to new opportunities.
And third, when we’re feeling positive emotions, we generally also experience far more clarity of thought, we feel more able to connect the dots, so to speak, and to see how this potential opportunity could lead to another, and another, and how it might all lead to a seemingly stuck goal now becoming unstuck. This increased clarity often feels like greater intelligence, greater confidence and a feeling of increased resilience, or even invincibility.
While these explanations are terribly simplistic (I uncover all the details when I teach), one can begin to see how habitual good-feeling thoughts can lead to the fruition of goals that have thus-far seemed stuck.
In summation, it is our habitual thoughts and it is only ever our habitual thoughts that determine how readily we allow our goals. Positive, good-feeling, optimistic thoughts lead us to our goals.
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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