Posted By admin on July 9, 2009
If you are like most people today, myself included, much of your time is consumed by tasks that are not related to your real priorities in life. The ‘ever-present trivial’ seems to always crowd out the ‘truly purposeful’. What would happen to our level of personal satisfaction if, at the end of each week, we realized that we had achieved specific worthy goals? What if we accomplished the things that we really `live for’ rather than just performing the empty rituals associated with existence?
The thing that may be holding us back from that satisfaction is a lack of clarity. We may not be really clear on what our goals are. In fact, research indicates that only a very few individuals in our modern society have “major goals” burning in their hearts and preoccupying their sub-conscious minds. Not coincidently, those few consistently report higher levels of accomplishment.
The principle works like this: Your degree of satisfaction is directly proportional to your degree of focus on what satisfies you.
Put another way: If we don’t focus on accomplishing worthy goals that will satisfy us, time will pass anyway, but we won’t have anything significant to show for it.
Few of us have clear goals and even fewer of us ever write down what we want to get out of life. We have probably heard that written goals are helpful but we don’t really believe it. We don’t think it will make a big enough difference to make it worth our time. We don’t believe it because we don’t practice it enough to get good at it.
TRY THIS EXPERIMENT
For the next 30 days, value yourself enough to take 15 minutes each morning to write down what you want most out of your life. This may be painful, but you will probably find that it is worth it.
Here’s why: You will be programming your subconscious mind to work on your behalf to make you aware of opportunities that you are now missing out on completely.
Why are we missing opportunities? It’s because our brains are acting as a filter. You see, each of us is constantly being bombarded by billions of bits of information. We can’t possibly focus on everything. To protect us from sensory overload, some things just don’t get processed. What criteria does the brain use to determine what gets through? It lets through the information that we have told it is important to us. Have you ever decided to buy a particular model of automobile? Once you focus on a specific model of car, they magically appear all around you in quantities you never realized existed. Those cars have always been around but your subconscious mind kindly spared you from having to deal with that information because it did not matter to you. But once your brain knows that that kind of car is important to you, you notice every one.
How can we put this to work for us? Well, extensive experimentation in human behavior has proven that the act of writing goals down over and over again is an extremely effective way to program our subconscious mind to focus on getting what we want out of life.
So here’s the procedure to follow: get out a pad of paper and find a comfortable place to write. Next, ask yourself: “What do I really want to accomplish in my life?” Then, write down the things that come to your mind. Write down what really matters to you. If you write down: 1. Take out the trash, 2. Buy groceries, etc. you will have only yourself to blame if that’s all you get done. Then, the next morning, do the same thing all over again. Don’t just copy what you wrote yesterday. Write again, from the heart, what you want out of life.
At first it may be difficult to write anything. We are not used to consulting ourselves about our true desires. However, after a few days of following this routine, answers will begin to flow.
Here’s what will happen next: Your subconscious mind will become so involved with your major goals that they will begin to affect every decision you make. At this point you will begin to see a profound change in how you use your time. Your productivity will go up substantially. So will your satisfaction with life. Try it for 30 days and let me know what you think.
PS – I’d like your success stories and your objections. DB
Contributed by SpeakCorp Member: Dave Bernas
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