Professional Goal Setting
June 11, 2008
Professional goal setting along with achieving personal goals have become an interest of mine lately. What are some things that I can do which would help me in this process? - Mike in Austin, TX
Being able to set and achieve goals on a consistent basis puts you on the top of the ladder vs the rest of the population who have never even considered it. Many people do not realize that when they have a desire for something, this desire can be firmly used as motivation to obtain exactly what you want. By focusing this desire into a set of WILLFUL goals that are confined within a definite time line, you create a plan for yourself to succeed.
What is strange is that this behavior for success is not readily taught in our education system. Rather than teaching children to think and act for themselves and figure out what it is that they want to do with their inborn talent and interests, they are forced into a cookie cutter mold that has to rely on authority figures for direction and purpose. In light of this, its not difficult to understand why so many people become mindless drones and end up in dead end jobs that they hate because they never listened to their heart and pursued what they truly wanted.
However, setting short term goals or long term goals has to be done in a proper format - having a half thought out plan of something you want to make happen but not knowing the steps that will lead to it’s fulfillment will bring nothing but frustration. I used to be a mindless, worker bee drone, yet over the past two years by using this simple process, I have transformed myself from a wandering automaton into a finely honed point of WILL that is able to accomplish things I wouldn’t have dared thought possible before.
Therefore here is the path to bring your goals into the vein of reality.
1. Desire - You have to become so keenly aware of your desire to accomplish what you see in your minds eye that it burns like a fire inside you.
2. Focus - Once this desire is realized you have to focus it into a discrete pattern of specific actions that enable you to translate this “mental energy” directly into your environment.
3. Faith - I’m not talking about religion, what this means is a personal faith within your own inborn ability to succeed and reach this success that your mind, heart and body ache for.
4. Belief - Which can be described another way as PERSISTENT ACTION. In utilizing the first 3 tools mentioned above, you act upon your faith, focus and desire while taking the steps - one by one - that will lead to the realization of what you burn to achieve.
5. Writing it All Down Many of you may be familiar with hearing “Oh just write down your goals and they’ll magically appear before you” and on and on. Don’t kid yourself, goal setting is hard work. But writing down SPECIFICALLY what you desire to achieve is a fundamental step in making it happen. This allows you to take that seed in your minds eye and literally “write” it into concrete reality.
In translating the energy of your goal from your mind by “planting” it as “seed” through writing it down, you are setting yourself up in harmony with the natural law of attraction and growth. There’s an ancient Hermetic teaching that has proven very useful to me which describes this meaning perfectly. “As above, so below - As below, so above”. Now think about it for a bit and how it can be applied in your daily life.
This one simple phrase encompasses both the macrocosm and microcosm of everything, from the entirety of the Universe down to the inner workings of our very own minds. Through understanding that there really is no separation of everything that exists and how we are all part of the same unified whole, we come to a definite comprehension that we have the same ability to create the reality of our own choice by utilizing the same creative process of the Universe itself. How could it be otherwise, are we not made up of the same building blocks as everything else? Cool huh?
Consider this, anything that has ever been created by civilization all started out as a thought in someones mind. Every tool, every invention, every new and more efficient way of doing something all started off as an intangible form of vibration, circulating back and forth inside the minds eye of someone until they finally took action upon it. By writing down what you want, you are taking that crucial first step towards drawing this creative power out of your mind and into your surroundings. So do it!!!
Follow these steps and if you are truly sincere about reaching your goals then check out the references below. If you don’t set goals for yourself then there really is nothing else you can do to get where you want to be in your professional and personal life. Search these references on Google and see what you find.
1. The Kybalion by Three Initiates
2. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles
3. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
4. The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale