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Goal-Setting: The First Step to Fortune
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A goal is an objective; a desire for a certain event to occur, be that the attainmentof a material object, a life situation, or a quality of being. Your goals are youwants. Your wants determine what you draw to you. What you put your attentionon you have and become. Put your attention on your wants? What will you have?What will you become? What do you want?
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Start a list: a Want List. Don’t worry about neatness, as long as you can read it.Don’t worry about achievability, about being “realistic”, nor are you to concernyourself with method, with “how” you will get it. And most of all, beware of  judging yourself for the wants that come to mind.
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Consider this your brainstorming session; you’ll organize and edit and betterprepare for their fulfillment in a moment. For now, just scribble down all that youdesire, large and small, material and immaterial, as they come to mind.
 
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Now, take a look at your list and search for any items on your list that are phrasedin the negative, in other words: as something you
don’t 
want, as a
 problem
youwant fixed, as something you want to
let go
of or
get rid 
of or
change
. For each of those, ask what would best replace those things if they were gone. When thatwhich you don’t want is gone, what is there instead. If your problem was fixed,how would things be? When you’ve let go of what needed letting go of and ridyourself of what needed ridding, what’s there instead.Instead of changing something
 from what it is
, what do you want to change it
to?
Replaceeach of your negatively worded goals with positively worded ones.
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Next examine your list for goals that aren’t yours. You may be amazed to find thatseveral of your listed goals aren’t things you really even want at all, but rather aregoals imposed upon you by your environment: your upbringing, your culture, andthe people around you. You’ll never achieve goals that aren’t your own, only thefrustrating treadmill of chasing after someone else’s idea of what your dreamsshould be. Cross those off the list entirely.With this more refined version of your list, you can now organize your goals into arealizable pattern for their most efficient attainment. Two useful ways to do this are totake out a clean sheet of paper and do one of the following:1.
Divide the page into 4 categories:
My Body, My Home, My Work, MyRelationships – then pull out the goals from your list and place them in theirappropriate category. If a particular goal falls into more than one category, choosethe area where you feel most confident approaching it or, alternatively, place it inthe category most lacking in other goals (a life fully lived involves passion andpurpose in every area).2.
Divide the page into time periods
of increasing chronological ranges. In otherwords: Write down what you’d like to accomplish by the end of 1 week, the end of 1 month, then 3 or 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 25 years. There areno set rules to the time chunks you use; choose the ones most relevant for you.With this list you are now more empowered to engage consciously in the deliberatecreation of the fulfillment of your every desire. The number of practical uses for your listfrom here is the subject of an entire article in itself. For this moment, relish in the factthat you have officially just placed your order with the universe for the life of yourdreams.
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