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Achieving the Life You Want

By: Lorna Mclaren

When it comes to getting what you want out of life it can be difficult to know where to start. Setting and achieving goals is hard when you have never been shown how. Getting what you want by achieving your pre-set goals, really is what you life should be about. It really does not matter what these goals are as long as you are one hundred percent committed to achieving them and that is where the average person falls down.

Deciding that you want to be rich is easy. Contemplating and deciding on a path to achieve wealth, other than a lottery win, is not so easy. Saying that this time next year you are going to be a size eight is just talk unless you have an idea of how you are going to do it. Sometimes our goals are unachievable in the time scale that we set and that can be another reason for failure.

If your goals are more emotionally based like wanting to be happy or secure or content then much the same applies. Saying I am going to be happy is a terrific life affirmation but if you don’t take time to remember what happy means for you then you are setting yourself up for a disappointment.

We are beings that live in a creative universe and from that universe we create all that we have. This is what we don’t teach our children. This is what we have forgotten. To achieve the life we want, this is what we have to remember.

Take the example of your new washing machine. It arrives all shiny and new and it sits in your laundry room or kitchen and it look fabulous. Now, the idea to get a new machine was yours because in this modern age that is how we wash clothes. You arranged for payment and delivery and here it is. But if you don’t put your dirty clothes in then you wont get your clean ones back out. For your washing machine to be of any use to you then you actively need to put something in to it. The washing will not get into the machine itself, unfortunately.

Our lives are similar. To get what you want out, you have to actively put something in. Saying you want to be rich is not going to make the universe boost your bank account. It will mean that you will experience wanting to be rich though.

What you should do is decide what you want to achieve. Whatever it is does not matter. Everyone is different and has their own issues that they want to resolve. Once you have decided, write it down on a piece of paper. Now add details. The details can be how you will feel when you are a size eight, what car you will buy when you are wealthy or how your view of others will change when you have found your happiness. Go into as much detail as possible. Yes you may feel silly but do it anyway. No one needs to see what you have written. If you have a picture of an outfit or car that you will have when your have achieved you goal then include that as well. The more detail and the clearer you lay out your goal the better.

Now visualise yourself living your life having achieved your goal. This is important because this is when you start to re-train your mind and shift your comfort zone. Your mind will start to believe what you are telling it and it will actively seek out opportunities to help you achieve your goal. If you want to be happy take your mind on a trip to a time in your life when you experienced happiness. Remember how you felt, how good it felt and visualise in the future feeling that feeling again. Visualise how your life would be if you felt like that all of the time.

When you are wealthy what will you do, how will you walk, what color will your car be? Imagine how your life will be and visualise yourself living that life. How you will you react to people when you are a size eight and how will they react to you? What clothes will you wear and how will you have your hair styled?

This will reinforce in your mind the thought that you will achieve this goal and as the universe moves to put in place the opportunities required for the attainment of your goal, your mind will pick up on these and you will take them. Your comfort zone will have shifted enough to allow you take an opportunity you might not otherwise have taken and your life journey will continue.

For more information on goal setting and inspirational resources go to www.personal-goalsonline.com

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