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Honing the Ultimate You: Long-Term Goals
by Janeen Detrick
Coaching Article
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Honing the Ultimate You: Long-Term Goals
Your process of personal development is like undertaking an exciting journey: the
journey of becoming the ultimate you. Embarking upon a journey without a predeter-
mined destination is similar to playing the game of life as if it were a game of bumper
poolbouncing from one obstacle to the next with no charted destination and being
bruised along the way! Have you ever felt like your life is a game of bumper pool?
The reason so many people go through life as if its a game of bumper pool is that
they dont have a clear vision of what they really want. They dont know what their life
should to look like, what they want their life to be, or what their existence is destined to
accomplish. In other words, they wonder, what is my purpose in life? This vision of ones
future is often referred to as their life mission. Ones life mission is the destination of
their journey. Its where theyre going. It is their long-term goal.
When you plan a road trip, you mark the destination and then you plan the route. Ones
life mission is the destination, and the stops along the way are their short-term goals.
Its necessary to know first where youre going, and then planning the route becomes
clear. You then head in that direction, and take the first step. After that, the next step
will manifest itself to you, and the next step after that, and so on. As you move in the
direction of your missiontaking each step that manifests itself to youyou will head
towards your mission until it is accomplished.
Now, spend some time and imagine what you would feel if you have everything youd
ever wanted. Can you see yourself in that success? Can you feel yourself in that success?
This is the first step to knowing and accomplishing your lifes mission: your long-term
goal. Imagine it. Take time to think this through and then feel it. It will catapult you
forward in an amazing way towards making it happen.
Next, write it down. Put your mission on paper; and then write how great it feels! If you
need help with this step, check out a mission statement builder located at Nightingale-
Conant (www.nightingale.com/mission_select.aspx). At their site, a mission statement
is defined as being only a paragraph long, but it has specific, measurable outcomes
and a deadline for accomplishing that outcome. This is a great tool to help you begin
to write your mission statement. There is amazing power in writing your mission state-
ment, as your subconscious mind will memorize it. The vibrational frequency of the
feelings you receive, when you read your mission statement, may trigger the release of
chemicals in your brain that may cause a feeling of euphoria and bring with it energy to
accomplish it!
Then, a principle that works very much like muscle memory (referred to as energy
imprinting) may cause your brain to remember the energy of the action and work to
bring it about. If youre familiar with the science of weight management, this principle
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Honing the Ultimate You: Long-Term Goals
by Janeen Detrick
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Coaching Article
is called a set-point, where your metabolism tries to maintain your weight at a prede-
termined set-point. So, the more often you read your mission statement and feel it, the
greater the strength of the memorized energy imprint and brain chemistry that will help
you bring it to pass. Its like being stuck in a very beneficial rut! As you ponder your lifes
mission, consider these questions:
What are some of my positive characteristics?
What are some of the actions I take that express these positive characteristics?
What things do I love to do?
Why do I love doing these things?
Do these things benefit only me, or do they benefit others as well?
Who do I desire to be of benefit to?
What are some things I would love to affect, or positively influence, in the world?
There is another question, related to that last one, which needs a bit of explanation
before I reveal it. Some people take on a lifes mission that is birthed out of their victim-
hood. An example of this might be the woman who desires to be rich so she can build
and run orphanages because she had such a horrible experience as an orphanshe
she doesnt want any child to go through what she did! Certainly, this appears to be a
worthy mission! However, if her motivation is one of hatred and resentment regarding
her upbringing, rather than love for children and the desire to bless them, the negative
energy may in fact work against her. It may also indicate that this is not her true mission
but rather her revenge, her coping mechanism!
Now, Ill tell you the next question, so you can ponder it to help you ascertain your lifes
mission. The next question asks, when I have all the money, all the freedom, and all the
time in the world, what cause or causes would I like to undertake? In other words, what
will I do with all that money and time?
But how you can tell the difference between your true mission and victimhood? To
determine if your purpose is birthed out of your victimhood, or is your lifes mission, ask
yourself this very telling question: If I had had the perfect childhood, with the perfect
parents, the perfect upbringing, and the perfect life, would my cause still motivate me?
Imagine yourself in that perfect life. Are you still passionate about your cause? If not,
what are you passionate about? What would you really love to do, if you had that perfect
life?
If the answer is yes, my cause is still my passion, then not only is it your true lifes mission,
but all of your past experiences, even if they seem bad, were actually serving to bring
you to your lifes mission! Isnt that wonderful! In fact, nothing really bad happened! But
all those experiences served to bring you to the fulfillment of finding your lifes purpose:
your mission! We have a mutual friend of whom this is true: our own Dr. Joe Vitale. Once
homeless, he lit upon his mission to end homelessness! Thank you Joe for going through
that, so all of humanity can reap the benefits of what you learned. Thank you!
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What is your lifes mission? Ponder it. Find it. Feel it. Then, write it down and feel it again!
Smile and enjoy it. Please note that your mission may include more than one worthy
goal. Societal evolution will be brought closer to all worthy goals by your unity with your
mission. The whole world will rejoice and be the better for your having accomplished it.
We will all be better off for it!