Hello Friend,
We all have a few goals that have felt too stuck, too big or too hard, for too long. In these periodic messages, you can learn how to get those stuck goals moving.
This time, we build upon the Myth and the Reality of goal achievement. These were defined in our last message.
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The Myth vs Reality: Achieving Stuck Goals
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.
As I explain when teaching, we experience whatever we continually think about, whether we want it or not. Whatever we focus upon becomes more prevalent in our lives.
When we buy into the Myth and we habitually think about what actions to take (i.e. what to do) to achieve our goals, we’re actually thinking a few complimentary thoughts.
- We’re thinking that we have not yet achieved our goals, and so we continue to experience not yet achieving our goals.
- We’re thinking about what actions to take, and so we experience ever more actions to take, a never-ending list of tasks.
We end up on a treadmill, or a spinning wheel like in a hamster cage, working long hours but making no progress on our goals. Sound familiar? I’ve been there!
Alternatively, we can choose to live with the Reality and focus on other, more helpful thoughts.
- We can think about all of the goals we’ve already achieved, and then we’d experience achieving ever more goals.
- We can focus upon actively appreciating all the countless blessings in our lives, and then we’d experience ever more blessings.
- We can think about all the abundance in our lives; perhaps an abundance of family, love, friends, freedom, health, laughter or opportunity. We all have abundance of some form in our lives. And then we’d experience increased abundance, in all forms.
Put another way, whatever we’re experiencing in our lives, tells us exactly what we habitually think about.
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
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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