If You Want More, Give Thanks

It seems only appropriate during this Thanksgiving holiday to focus on gratitude and it's role in materializing your goals.

In order to reach your goals, you have to be thankful for where you are now in your life. We know the law of attraction gives us back more of what we are vibrating. If we want more things to be grateful for, we have to be grateful for what we have now.

Gratitude is a beautiful feeling. It really helps to put you in that all important success vibration.

If you have food on your table and clothes on your back, then you can truly celebrate the abundance in your life.

As you spend time with your loved ones over the holidays, think about all the blessings you have in your life to be grateful for. Give thanks for the goals that you have already reached in 2008 and throughout your life, and the goals that you are in the process of achieving right now.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Slow Down!

We all lead very busy lives which can make it difficult to remain focused on our goals. With so many things to do each day, it is easy to get lost in the day to day tasks. Sadly, our dreams take a back seat.

We complicate matters ourselves by trying to focus on too many goals at the same time. We have short, medium, and long term goals in all areas of our lives including financial goals, career goals, relationship goals and so on.

Time to simplify things. Write out your current short term goal on an index card. Make it emotional, written in the present tense with exciting adjectives. This goal can be focused on one or more areas of your life, the point is to write it in a way that gets you super motivated each time you read it.

Now the next all important step, carry the goal card with you everywhere you go. Read it several times a day. It doesn't matter how busy you are, you can always find one minute or so to read your goal card. This will keep your goal in the forefront of your mind regardless of how busy your life gets.

Once you reach the goal, then and only then will you be ready to move on to the next one. This will allow you to slow down, stay focused and in action towards actually achieving your goals one at a time, instead of just wishing that you had the time to devote to them.

Follow the Leader

Do you know anyone who has already reached the goal you are working towards? It is truly amazing how much we can learn from following another person's lead.

Even if you don't know them personally, you can still learn about how they succeeded. For example there is an endless supply of self help resources, autobiographies and biographies of very successful people who have outlined their success path for us.

Be aware of the people in your life who have all the answers you are looking for, but no personal evidence of actually knowing what they are talking about. You know the people I am referring to, we all have them in our lives. Although they do mean well, take their advice with great caution. If they haven't done it themselves, what qualifies them to advise you on the matter.

Instead seek to associate and learn from those who have been there and done that with respect to your goals. You will find that this can truly save yourself a lot of time, money and unnecessary mistakes along your success journey, by simply following a leader.

Limiting Beliefs Stop You From Reaching Your Goals

Do you have limiting beliefs that are holding you back from reaching your goals? You may not even be aware of your limiting beliefs, you may even think that you don't have any. The truth is we all have them, in many cases we took them on from our parents or authority figures when we were very young.

If you are like me, you may have heard one of these regularly when you were young; money doesn't grow on trees. or only rich people are lucky.

Look at the areas in your life in which you are struggling, chances are you have a belief that is holding you back in that part of your life. For example, if you have consistently been struggling financially, you probably hold a belief that money is hard to come by, or maybe you don't believe that you deserve to be wealthy.

Now that you have identified your limiting beliefs you can begin to change them into new, positive and supportive beliefs. Write down your old limiting belief, cross it out and replace it with the oppositve belief which is in support of achieving your goals.

You can then begin to reprogram your subconscious mind with the new belief with consistent daily imprinting of the belief. This will take several weeks and possibly months of consistency. Remember, you have been carrying that old limiting belief for a long time, it is not going to go away very quickly.

Stick with it, and you will soon begin to see the results you want in your life and be on the way to achieving your goals.

Do You Belief You Can Do It?

How big are your goals? Do you really believe that you can achieve them? It is great, and really necessary to have big goals in life, but it is equally important that they are believable for you.

This is especially important with your shorter term goals. It is all fine and dandy to set a goal to make $1million in the next three months, but do you really believe that is possible for you? If you are currently making about $10,000. in a three month period, it is safe to say that the answer is definitely no.

If your goals are so ridiculously big and unbelievable, you will not even know how to begin to go about achieving them. Instead of being motivated to even try, you will probably find that you are not only unmotivated but will quickly lose interest altogether.

On the other hand if you set a goal which is just outside of your current comfort zone and your current belief of what is possible for you, it is much easier for you to forge ahead and take action to achieve it. Your visualizations will be more believable for you and your subconscious mind will begin to present the action plan for achievement.

The Missing Ingredient

Can you honestly say that you take action each and every day towards achieving your goals? For many of us, action is the missing ingredient. We spend plenty of time working on our mindset and belief with daily visualizations and affirmations of success and then we expect the Law of Attraction to do the rest.

The reality is that if you spend all of your time dreaming of a big bag of money, eventually you will end up in the poor house with no money at all. You must take action!

If you have a huge goal and you don't know what all the action steps are that will be required, just take the first step. Ask yourself each morning, "What action can I take today that will bring me closer to achieving my goal?"

With each action step taken, another action step will be revealed to you. The Law of Attraction will see that you are serious about actually achieving your goal, and will ensure that you have the knowledge needed to take the action required.

Visualization Can Change Your Mind

If achieving your goal involves getting out of your comfort zone, you are going to have to spend some time reprogramming your subconscious mind before you can achieve it. Your brain is set much like the thermometer in your home, to keep the temperature at the set point.

When you begin to take action steps towards achieving a big goal which is outside of your current comfort zone, a chemical is released into the nervous system which your brain defines as danger. It is imperative that you spend some time resetting the temperature/comfort zone in your mind, this can be done through visualization.

With consistent and persistent daily visualization of your goal and the emotions you will feel upon achieving that goal, you are telling your subconscious mind that reaching your goal is within your comfort zone and perfectly safe. Your subconscious mind cannot decipher between reality and imagined reality.

Visualization is one of the tools which allows us to use the Law of Attraction to achieve what we want. A few short minutes a couple of times a day, can help to get you on your way to achieving your goal.

Do You Keep Your Commitments?

How are you at keeping your commitments? You may wonder what keeping commitments has to do with materializing your goals, the answer is a lot. The two go hand in hand. I would go so far as to say that if you generally don't keep your commitments, you probably also struggle to reach your goals.

The reality is that reaching your goals requires keeping all of your commitments to the most important person, yourself. This is where many of us tend to fall short. We get so worried about keeping others happy, but we are OK with letting ourselves down. This is completely backwards.

Now, I am not suggesting that you should disregard your commitments to others, but I am saying that you should put just as much importance on the commitments you make to yourself as you do your commitments to others.

For many of us the solution here is to make sure that we do not over commit to others. Before you make any commitments to others make sure that you are able to keep those commitments while still reaching your personal commitments that bring you closer to achieving your goals.

Adversity Provides Clarity on What You Want

Nobody likes to struggle, but we can all use our bad times to become clear on our goals. This is simply done by knowing what we don't want, which allows us to use contrast through clarity to figure out what we do want.

For example if you are stuck in a job you hate, you can sit down and write out all of the things that you don't like about your job on one side of a sheet of paper. You may end up with some things like: My boss doesn't appreciate me. My work is boring and unfulfilling.

Now you can go down the list of things that you don't want and cross them out and beside them on the other side of the page write down the opposite, or what you do want. You may end up with things like: I am very appreciated and valued for my work. My work is challenging, rewarding, and fulfulling.

You can now use the law of attraction to focus on what you want, and start to take the action steps to achieve it.

Sometimes we need the bad times to know and appreciate the good times. If you know what you don't want, only focus on it long enough to get clear on what you do want. You can then be free to focus on your goals.

How Bad do You Want It?

So you have your goal and you are working consistently and persistently towards it for a little while and then you just stop. It is so much harder to start over again then it is to just keep steadily moving forward, so what happened? Why did you end the progress you were making?

You may be experiencing some adversity in your life which is taking your focus away from your goal. Yes, when things go wrong, you have to make them right again, but you don't have to lose your focus. Whatever the problem is, it may take up most of your time and your concentration, but you can still at least remember that your goal is still your ultimate focus. It is ok if you have to back off a little from the action steps, just don't stop all together.

If you goal is powerful enough, it should be easier for you to stay focused and on task. You should be very emotionally involved with your goal, to the point that you have a 'do whatever it takes' committment to reach it. Unless you want it bad enough, life's struggles will stop you dead in your tracks everytime.

If you want it bad enough, you will make sure that you get it. You will be more powerful than any circumstances in your life. So the question is, How bad do you want it?

Do Your Affirmations Support your Goals?

Most of us have heard of affirmations, many of us even use them on a regular basis. They truly are a powerful tool when used to support the achievement of our goals.

The problem is many of us fall into the trap of letting them undercut the achievement of our goals. Let's say for example that you are running late for work for the third time this month, and frustrated about it you say to yourself, "I am always late". Your subconscious mind then takes that on and says, "Ok, I am always late". It will then proceed to make sure that you are indeed always late.

Instead we need to forgive ourselves of our mistakes afterall, we are only human. When you make a mistake recognize it as just that, a mistake, do not affirm it as who you are. Instead forgive yourself and begin to affirm what you really want. "I choose to be on time for work everyday".

Affirmations are a great personal growth tool when used in a positive, supportive way. The important thing is to make sure that your self talk is in alignment with what you want at all times. Use your affirmations to support the achievement of your goals, not undercut them.

Start Your Day Out Right

If you are serious and motivated about reaching your goals, it is imperative that you keep your emotions in check. The law of attraction gives us back what we put our attention, energy and focus on, so we must make sure we are feeling good and positve. A good way to do this is to make sure you start each day out right.

Gratitude is a beautiful thing which makes us feel really good. Before you get out of bed each morning, go through the top five or ten things that you are grateful for at that moment. You will begin to notice more things throughout the day that you are grateful for. You may even finally begin to truly appreciate the things that you usually take for granted.

By being grateful for the abundance that you already have in your life, you will begin to realize that you already are very successsful. The law of attraciton will then bring you more of the same, more success. This is an important step in the achievement of your goals. If you want more in life, you have to be grateful for what you have now.

We all have an abundance of people and things in our lives to be grateful for. If you have food on your table, a roof over your head, and clothes on your back, you truly are blessed. Start out each morning by going through your gratitude list. You will begin to see how doing this one simple exercise will support you in reaching all of your goals.