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As the quote at the beginning states, without goals you drift through life, effectively giving up
control and therefore, allowing other people or outside events to shape your destiny. This can in
turn lead to frustration, anger, stress and even depression. Would you rather create your own
destiny, or be a part of someone else’s?
While many people have goals relating to their work, few spend time setting goals for all the
other areas of their lives.
Some people will associate having goals with material possessions i.e. a mansion with a pool, lots
of money, a sports car, designer clothes etc. However for people who are not motivated by
such possessions, there mere idea of setting them puts them in conflict, because they may not
be aware that goal setting is holistic, covering all elements of life. There’s nothing wrong with
material goals, but in order to achieve that balanced life we talked of earlier in the sessions,
goals need to be set in all areas, for example, family, friends, social, health, spiritual, financial,
health and well-being, significant other and physical environment.

This may be your first foray into goal setting or you may have tried before without success. We
will look at the common reasons why people fail in their efforts to set and accomplish goals
later. By deliberately placing goals toward the end of the course, we have provided ourselves
with the best opportunity to acquire as much contributory information as we can before sitting
down to complete this life changing exercise.

Use the Power Of Your Subconscious Mind To Set Your Goals
Your subconscious mind cannot distinguish between truth and fantasy, or right and wrong – it
simply accepts verbal input from your conscious mind as absolute truth regardless of the reality.
It repeats and replays the commands you give it. All you need to do therefore, is convince it
that your desire already exists.

We have explored the power of the human mind in an earlier session and you might wish to
revisit those pages to boost your efforts in goal setting.

It is estimated that the average person has between 30,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day. Please
understand that every thought you have is either moving you towards your goals and who you
want to become or it moves you away from them. There is no neutral position. Every thought
counts. That’s quite frightening when you realise that of those 30,000 to 60,000 daily thoughts,
approximately 85% are repeats from the past – and of that 85%, through our conditioning and
lack of prior thought control, more than three quarters of them are negative!

The subconscious mind is like fertile soil – it will accommodate and germinate any seed you
consistently plant there, be it positive or negative. This adds new meaning to the term “Be care-
ful what you think about!”. As they say in computer language “garbage In – garbage out”. If
negative seeds are planted consistently, you mustn’t be surprised when negativity is what
comes back. Happily, the same can be said for positive seeds. If you plant positivity, that’s what
you will get back.

The steps towards effecting positive, permanent change are simple – that is not to say it’s easy;
it requires consistent daily work. Left unattended, the human mind works within your own
personal “comfort zone”, and unless you train it through the habit of thought, it will continue to
feed back what it always has – and steer your life in the direction it has always gone.
“If you keep on thinking the same things in the same way, you’ll keep on getting the
same results.”

Feed your mind with the idea that what you desire already exists, and it will heighten your
awareness to opportunities around you that are consistent with your goals. Attach emotion to
the thoughts of desire and you will amplify those vibrational thoughts of attractive energy to
bring about your desires that much faster.