Tag: Goal Setting Series

Over the past several months, I've shown you how to set goals that utilize the power of the Universe. In this final article of the series, I'm giving you all of the main steps again to get you started on changing your life.

Here are those 10 crucial steps:

1. Remove Time from the Equation

To move past the human barriers that prevent you from having what you truly desire, you must first remove any timeframes from your goal.

Timeframes on a goal are usually based on what people think is possible. You may not know how your goal could manifest quickly, but the Universe might.

Let the Universe set the timing ~ and then you may be amazed by how quickly your goal manifests.

2. Go Beyond What You Think You Can Do

Again, most people set goals based upon what they think they can accomplish ~ not on what they truly desire or what they're actually capable of doing.

To begin to tap your limitless potential, let yourself fantasize.

Fantasy literally changes your brain's frequency, making it more receptive to ideas, desire and purpose from your soul.

It's truly the best way to discover what you really want. And it's crucial for receiving that prosperous idea that can take you light years from where you are today.

3. Receive Your Million-Dollar Idea

If you already experience the power of fantasizing, go to the place or do the thing that works for you.

If you don't know what that is, find a place that's beautiful and calming. Get comfortable and let your eyes rest. Don't “try” to fantasize, just relax and let your mind be free.

As images or feelings start to arise, ask yourself what you want, and then write down whatever comes to mind.

If this process doesn't work for you, try “catching” yourself fantasizing ~ in the shower is a likely place ~ and record what you see, hear or feel.

4. Are You Able and Willing?

To turn your fantasy into reality, you have to be able to say yes to these two questions:

“Am I able?” You've gone beyond what you thought you could do. Now, you need to muster the faith to believe in your ability to manifest your million-dollar idea. Do you feel excited? That's your gut saying YES, you're able.

“Am I willing?” Are you willing to do what must be done to manifest your goal? For example, move if necessary, invest financially in yourself, commit to living a new life?

5. Create an Environment to Support Your Goal

Once you declare that you are able and willing, it's vital that your environment begins to reflect your aspiration back to you on a daily basis.

To accomplish that, make two lists. The first is of the things, people and ideas that are not in harmony with your goal and should be removed from your life. The second is of those things that must come into your life to support your goal.

Once you make the lists, start acting on them immediately.

6. Make a Binding Commitment

Now it's time to commit yourself to your goal. In the present tense, write out your goal and sign and date the page. For example: “I commit to having a $10 million-dollar-a-year business.”

Remember, don't include any timeframes.

Then, make a goal card to carry with you and read several times a day to remind you that, according to Universal Law, your goal is already here.

On another piece of paper or index card, write: “I'm so happy and grateful now that ___________,” and write in your goal.

7. Get Attached

To start moving your idea from the nonphysical to the physical, you need to become emotionally involved in it.

Emotions are like the engines behind our thoughts. They give energy to your goal, sending it through time and space, prompting the Universe to start bringing you what you need to manifest it.

8. Raise Your Awareness

When you raise your awareness to the level of your goal, what you want shows up. It's yours.

To raise your level of awareness, you first have to know your current awareness and results.

Your current awareness is the closest you've ever come to your goal. If you have a money goal, it would be the most money you, alone, have ever earned in a year.

Your current results would be what you are earning this year.

Once you know those two figures, you know where you are, and all you have to do is make a firm decision to go to the next level of awareness, and then expect the opportunity to do that to show up.

9. Change, Adapt, Grow

Picture yourself at the bottom of a staircase with your goal at the top. The Universe has heard that you are ready and will meet you on the first stair with your opportunity.

Step up and into it. Make the change, adapt to the change and grow into that bigger version of yourself.

Then the Universe will meet you on the second stair with another opportunity that requires you to change, adapt and grow still larger than before.

You follow this same process all the way to your goal.

10. Cut Through the Chaos

Now, your subconscious will resist all this change and growth, and you may experience some chaos as the universe rearranges your life so that you can reach your goal.

Just remember that the upheaval is temporary while your goal is the ultimate prize.

To cut through the chaos, stay connected to the higher side of yourself. Follow the Seven Secrets of Multimillionaire Entrepreneurs: desire, decision, belief and faith in a higher power, love, responsibility, will and action.

They will deliver you to your goal.

Get Started

There is no limit to what you can achieve or be.

If you do each of these steps with unwavering commitment, you truly can have anything you desire.

You can create absolutely magnificent and astonishing things.

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The second you make a firm decision to embrace your desire, and you fully step into it, the universe responds immediately. It starts rearranging your life so that you can reach your goal and fulfill your purpose.

Some of that does not look or feel good.

Often there is a brief period of chaos. You may experience difficult situations or people close to you get sick.

That can be very challenging, because you're emotionally attached to the things and people in your life. You think, What the hell is going on? My whole world's falling apart!

It's difficult, but it is only temporary. It's like the turbulence you experience when you take off in an airplane.

The pilot comes over the intercom, saying, “Folks, we're experiencing some turbulence right now. I'm waiting to get clearance from air traffic control so that we can take you up and out of this.”

Meanwhile, you're gripping the seat rests or the hand of the person next to you, wondering when the hell it's going to end.

Then, all of a sudden, they get the all-clear. The plane soars to 36,000 feet, and it's smooth sailing from that point on.

The higher side of you understands this process, but your subconscious mind is freaking out. It can only go by the information with which it's been programmed ~ which includes belief in lack ~ so it perceives your goal as an impossible dream. It believes that what you're doing is dangerous, so it's trying to stop you.

You have to be ready for this, because your subconscious will cause you to think thoughts that are detrimental to your progress toward your vision.

You'll think, What's happening! I'd better stop. I shouldn't spend any more money! This is crazy. I can't do this! In addition you may feel fear, anger or overwhelmed.

The truth is everything is moving in the right direction. When you set your goals according to Universal Law, as I've been showing you, you are going for the biggest win of your life.

Just keep following what I told you in my recent series on the Seven Secrets of Multimillionaire Entrepreneurs.

Those ideas of desire, decision, belief and faith in a higher power, love, responsibility, will, and action, will keep you living in the higher side of yourself.

They will cut straight through the chaos and rocket you to your goal.

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If you've taken each step in this goal-setting series, you've used fantasy to receive your prosperous goal, decided that you are ready and willing to manifest it, invested yourself emotionally in your goal, and begun to raise your level of awareness.

By now, the Universe has probably already brought you the opportunity that will lead to manifesting your goal.

As I said last time, this is where faith becomes crucial.

If your opportunity requires you to do something that you don't want to do, you may decide that things aren't all that bad after all. You don't really need the thing you said you wanted.

This is a very predictable reaction. It's just your subconscious mind trying to keep you where you are.

Your task is to keep moving forward regardless.

Here's how you do that.

Decide, Change, Adapt, Grow

First, recognize that your opportunity is meeting you one level up from where you are.

Picture yourself at the bottom of a staircase. Your goal is at the top. All the stairs in between represent each of the opportunities that you have to step up and into in order to reach your goal.

Let's say you're a filmmaker living in Des Moines, and your goal is to win an Oscar. The Universe has shown you the opportunity for your first step, which requires you to move to Los Angeles. If you like Des Moines, you might resist the change. You might feel reluctant to leave family and friends.

Yet, deep down you know it's the right move, so you step up and into the opportunity. You make the change and move to LA.

Then you have to adapt to the change, and the second you do that, you grow.

You're now standing on the second stair, and you see your next step, the opportunity that will take you to the third stair. Again, it requires you to take a risk, but your faith is stronger so you may spend less time contemplating your fear

You decide to embrace the opportunity, make the change, adapt to the change, and grow.

You then follow this same pattern all the way to the top.

Remember that you will only ever see your next step, because each one requires you to grow into its challenges before the following one can be revealed.

Also, your dream is in a constant state of transformation as well. Your goal may change as you grow. You may realize that what you really want is to make brilliant, moving films that impact people's lives, and the best way to do that may not lead to the red carpet.

No matter. You don't have to know that now. Your goal of winning an Oscar gets you on the staircase.

It starts you on a journey that represents a new way of being ~ living in faith and becoming the person you are meant to be.

That process won't ever be easy, because your subconscious mind will resist each change, but you can become comfortable being uncomfortable. I'll talk more about that next time.

In the end, however, it's absolutely worth it.

As you proceed toward your goal, you'll feel more alive, more prosperous and more of service than ever before.

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If you've been making the most of this goal-setting series, you've used fantasy to receive your prosperous goal, indicated that you are ready and willing to manifest it, and begun to invest yourself emotionally in it.

I told you last time that in order to realize your vision, you have to shift your perception by raising your level of awareness.

When your awareness rises to the level of your goal, it shows up. It's yours.

The process I'm about to teach you is not just about achieving this one goal. It's about becoming aware that you have the ability to reach any goal.

Kick-Start Your Level of Awareness

Your first step to reaching your goal is identifying where you are. What is your current conscious level of awareness in relationship to your goal?

For instance, if you have a money goal, your current level of awareness would be the most money you, alone, have ever earned in a year. You wouldn't consider your spouse's income or bring anything else into the equation. This is about your awareness.

If your goal were to take a year-long cruise around the world, your conscious awareness would be the longest or most exotic cruise or vacation you'd ever taken.

In other words, your conscious level of awareness is the closest you've ever come to your goal.

The other part of determining where you are in relationship to your goal are your current results.

Using the money example, that would be what you are earning this year.

The most you ever made ~ your current awareness ~ and what you are earning this year ~ your current results ~ comprise where you are.

Now, imagine that you've written your goal at the top of a piece of lined paper and your current awareness and results at the bottom. Each of those lines in between represent a rise in your level of awareness toward your goal. When your awareness reaches the top, your goal manifests.

This can happen quickly or slowly. It's really up to you.

Raise Your Awareness

Raising your level of awareness is actually very easy. All you have to do is become aware of where you are, and then make a decision to go to the next level.

For instance, if your goal is $500,000, your current awareness is $100,000 and your current results are $80,000, decide to rise to $150,000.

Make a firm decision, and then expect the opportunity to show itself.

The Universe hears that you are ready and brings you the opportunity for your next step. You won't see how to reach your ultimate goal, only your next step.

This is where faith becomes very important. Your opportunity might require you to move across the country or walk away from your employment and do something different.

Many people freeze at that point. They're afraid to move forward without a guarantee, so they don't accept their gift.

They miss out on the new, bigger life that is waiting for them ~ that they are asking for, that they decided they wanted.

It doesn't have to be that way.

You can learn to thrive as you take advantage of each opportunity and increase your awareness ever closer to your goal.

I'll show you how to do that next time.

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If you've been following this goal-setting series, you've identified what needs to leave and come into your environment, and you've made an unwavering commitment to your goal.

You are now ready for it to manifest.

Get Emotionally Involved

To start moving your idea from the nonphysical to the physical, you have to become emotionally involved in it.

Imagine how your project will feel when it comes to fruition. Think about it all the time. Fan your desire for it into a white-hot flame.

Why is that important?

Emotions are like the engines behind our thoughts, which by themselves are neutral.

When you imbue your idea or any thought with emotion, you send it zinging through time and space, and the Universe starts bringing you what you need to manifest it.

If you stay emotionally connected to your project, it will manifest quickly.

If you fall into doubt and recant on being willing and able, you return to ground zero. You have to start again.

I know…if you've never consciously manifested something before, it is difficult to keep the faith.

Just remember that the moment you had the idea it came into existence along with the means to manifest it.

That's the promise of the Law of Polarity.

Instant Manifestation and the Law of Polarity

The Law of Polarity states that everything in the universe has an opposite. There would be no inside to a room without an outside. Every up has a down and every down has an up.

Not only does everything have an opposite, but it is equal and opposite. If it's three feet from the floor to the top of the table, it's three feet from the top of the table down to the floor.

The opposite of a question is its answer, so when you have an idea, the way to manifest that idea is also present. They're like two different sides of the same coin.

People think that wealth and poverty are two different things, but they're not. They're just opposite sides.

This is true for any ill effect you're experiencing, whether it is debt or lack of prospects, sales or money.

If you're experiencing the opposite of the thing that you want, that thing is also around you. You just don't perceive it.

This is why instant manifestation is real. Once you can perceive it, it's already there.

Bang! It comes right into your field of vision. You have it. It's yours.

Yes, you do have to shift your perception in order to see ~ and experience ~ the other side of the coin.

I'll show you how to do that next time.

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Over the past couple of months, I've been teaching you how to set and manifest goals that will truly make a difference in your life and the lives of everyone you touch.

To do that, you have to inspire yourself and commit to your goal.

Create the Ideal Environment for Your Goal

Your environment was created out of your old reality, so if you don't change it to reflect where you're going, it will keep pulling you back to where you've been.

To create the ideal environment to support your goal, first make a list of the things, ideas and people in your life that are not in harmony with your goal and should be removed.

Be really honest here ~ and brave.

It can be difficult to part ways, but do you really want to be held back by people who don't support your vision? Do you want to play small for fear of what others will think? Do you really want that cat-scratched sofa?

Once you've made the list of what to remove from your life, make another list of those things that must come in to support your goal.

For instance, you may have to go to a particular seminar. Hire a coach. Sell your house. Buy a car. Fly first class. Raise your prices or rates.

Whatever it is, don't bargain with the Universe. If God is showing you what to do, just step into it.

I have client after client who can pinpoint their rapid rise to the first time they bought a first-class plane ticket. They knew it was required, so they did it, and their lives were never the same.

Commit to Your Goal

Now it's time to make a binding commitment to manifest your dream.

This is a contract, so don't do it unless you're willing to commit 100% to your goal.

100% means it will manifest. Failure is not an option. If you sincerely come from that place, you will reach your goal.

You will manifest the money, the business, the girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse. You'll manifest the health, the social life, the house, the boat.

Whatever it is that you want, it will happen.

Write your commitment in the present tense. For instance, “I commit to having a $10 million-dollar-a-year business.” Then sign and date the page.

Now, on another piece of paper or an index card, make a goal card to carry with you and read several times a day. On that page, write: “I'm so happy and grateful now that ___________,” and write in your goal.

For instance, “I'm so happy and grateful now that I have a $10 million-dollar-a-year business.”

Remember, don't include any timeframes. The Universe is handling how and when your dream manifests.

You are taking the steps I've been showing you in this series, boldly doing what must be done and making an unwavering commitment to your goal.

Do that and you will manifest like crazy.

The Universe will knock itself out to help you reach your goal.

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If you’ve been putting the information in this goal-setting series into practice, you now have a gift from the Universe: a prosperous idea that you received while fantasizing.

This idea represents something you want for your business or relationship, or it’s something you’d like to do. It would make an enormous difference in your life.

Now, the question is, how do you turn your fantasy into reality?

The first step is to answer the following two questions honestly.

1.  “Am I able?”

Do you believe that you are able to manifest your desire?

I asked you to receive ideas through fantasizing because I wanted you to open your mind to possibility, to receive ideas you might never have considered.

In order to manifest your idea, however, you have to muster the faith to believe in it.

For instance, let’s say you have a $1 million business and you want to expand to $3 million this year.

That’s a stretch, and the idea scares you, but you also feel deeply excited. You really feel in your gut that you can do it.

If, on the other hand, you don’t feel able, don’t beat yourself up. I say all the time that you have to start where you are. Fantasize again and ask for something that you can believe in.

Just keep your original vision too. You might be ready for it sooner than you think!

2. “Am I willing?”

When you can say that you are able to manifest your idea, you then want to ask yourself if you are willing to do what must be done to make it a reality.

For example, are you willing to:

Change what must be changed?

Financially invest in yourself?

Get coaching and direction when required?

Let go of self-limiting stories?

Study, read and attend seminars?

Mastermind with like-minded people?

Release your past?

Continue when met with failure?

Refuse to be a victim?

Possibly face ridicule, humiliation and rejection?

Commit to living a new life?

Move if necessary?

The list can go on and on, and you won’t know all of the things that need to change before you make the decision to pursue your fantasy.

In fact, you have to make the decision first.

This is difficult, I know, but the Universe won’t show you what you need to do until you make the decision to step into your vision.

Once you say that you are willing, the Universe will show you exactly what needs to shift. It will show up in your life as a problem or an issue, as something that obviously needs to change.

The only thing you need to do now is commit to being willing to do whatever “it” is.

Yes, that’s a huge leap of faith.

However, whatever you’ll be asked to change is the thing that’s been holding you back. So there’s really nothing to lose and everything to gain.

If you can jump off that diving board and say, “I AM ABLE, AND I AM WILLING,” you’ve made a decision.

And your fantasy is one step closer to reality.

I’ll show you that all-important second step next time.

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In my last article, I introduced my new series on how to set goals that utilize the power of the Universe, and I showed you how to remove time from the equation.

Today, I'm urging you to use your most powerful tool when creating goals: your imagination.

Fantasy Matters

When most people sit down to set goals, they evaluate their present results, decide what needs to change, and then ask themselves what they think they can achieve.

They never consider using fantasy or their imagination.

That's a great loss, because when you fantasize you're actually altering the frequency of your brain to make it more receptive to expansive ideas in the Universe you might never have considered.

In fact, one of the primary functions of the human brain is to engage in fantasy and use the imagination to draw ideas, desire and purpose from the soul.

It's the best way to discover what you really want.

Yet, most of us rarely use this divine gift because it was shut down when we were young.

How the Divine Gift Was Stolen

If you leave small children alone, they will engage their imagination automatically. In their own world, kids can do and be whatever they want.

At most schools, however, they're taught conformity. Fantasy and the imagination are slowly, sometimes severely, whacked out of them.

Children are scolded for day dreaming, not paying attention. Over time, they learn that fantasizing is not okay.

When it's time to start making critical decisions for the direction of their life, young adults are in trouble, because they have little connection to their inner world.

They have no idea what their purpose is. They're unable to understand the desire inside of them. They have little idea who they are.

Unable to fully think for themselves, they ask, “What does my guidance counselor or parents or spouse think I should do? What does the economy indicate? What do people tell me I'm good at?”

Their decisions and goals are made based on what they currently know, what others tell them and what they think they can do.

If you make your goals from that place, you're already off course.

You get a year or two down the road, and you're miserable, so you sit down and make another plan, considering your present results and what you think you can do.

That cycle can repeat for a lifetime, without your ever truly understanding what's missing.

Go Beyond

What's missing is you ~ what you desire and broader guidance from your soul.

Listen, there is no limit to your potential.

I'll lead you through this next time, but if you use fantasy and your imagination to create your goals, you'll remove human barriers that prevent you from having a life you truly desire.

You'll utilize the full power of the Universe and create absolutely wonderful and astounding things.

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