“GOals FOR WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE!”

-- Helping you achieve your true potential --

This is your life.

What have you done with it so far?

Are you happy with how it’s unfolding?

Sit back and dream a little.

What do you want in your life that you don’t have now?

What are you doing to bring that special something to reality?

This is your life.

Make it truly yours.

Make it wonderful and fulfilling.

You hold the power to make your life whatever you want.

It’s up to you.

But you have to make it happen.

And we can help you do it.

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GOAL SETTING WORKBOOK OUTLINE:

Introduction – Living Life on Purpose

Step 1 - What Do You Want From This Program?
Step 2 - What Do You Want In life?

Step 3 - Find Happiness In Balance
Step 4 - What Do You REALLY Want?
Step 5 - Aligning Your Goals With Your Purpose
Step 6 - Protect Your Glass Balls
Step 7 - Formatting Your Goals

Step 8 - Let's Be Specific
Step 9 - Anchoring Your Goals
Step 10 - Actualizing Your Goals
Step 11 - Tracking and Celebrating Your Goals
In a nutshell…

Looking ahead

A few details before we get started:

• You may work directly from your computer screen or print the lessons.

• Set up a journal (a scribbler or 3-ring binder) to record all your notes so you will be able to refer back to them over time. Writing things down can quadruple your memory and results. Even if you already have a journal, you might want to create a book that deals specifically with goals so that all of your notes will be in one place. Our targets in life continually change. It's wonderful to have a written record to show how your consciousness shifts in terms of what you want to accomplish. It's also powerful to document your successes as you achieve goal after goal.

• You may complete the entire workbook in one sitting, but we have found that you will receive the most benefit if you complete it over time, for example, one lesson per day.

• Some of our exercises ask you to work quickly. This is to help you connect with your intuitive knowing rather than get caught up in your typical thought patterns. Our thinking can be stuck in what we think we should be rather than what we really want to be. Play with working quickly to experiment with letting go of your habitual mental focus.

• When you review what you have written, or when you review a list of words, be sensitive to any intuitive sensations that are alerting you to what is most important for you. Circle words that resonate with you.

Okay! Let’s get you started on creating and achieving goals for your journey!

“Know what you want. Become your real self.”

 -- David Harold Fink

It has been proven, time and time again, that people who set goals achieve success while those who don’t, generally achieve very little. Goal setting helps you get clear about what you want, set priorities and create a plan. Consistently working with your goals enables you to attain results.

More importantly, the process of identifying what you want in life helps you learn more about who you are. When we set and pursue our own goals, we take control of our lives. As we plot targets and move towards them, we bring purpose and focus to our days. Our actions have meaning. Decisions are easier to make. Our self-esteem, happiness and fulfillment grow as we clearly see ourselves moving forward in life. We live our lives on purpose.

Goal setting, review and achievement, then, must become an integral part of our day-to-day mindset. The process only works when we continually work with it.

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.

 Which road do I take? she asked. 

Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. 

Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.”  -- Lewis Carroll

Why are you doing this workbook? If you are going to spend precious time completing this program, it's important to be really clear about what you want to get from the process. There are three reasons for this:

1. The more clear and specific we can be about what we are aiming for, the more likely it is that we will achieve it. We'll know when we get there!

2. The power of intention sharpens our attention so we are more likely to notice those people, events and things in our lives that can help us meet our goals.

3. The more you understand your motivation for setting goals, the more committed you will be to make the goal-setting process work.

When you get to the very deepest reasons for what brought you here, you will tap into powerful motivating forces that will propel you to success. This experience will have real

meaning for you.

EXERCISES:

1. In your journal, write down why you want to identify and achieve your goals. Write as quickly as you can for at least 5 minutes. When you’re finished, review what you’ve written and summarize your reasons.

2. Set an intention to succeed in mastering the goal setting process! Commit to working through the workbook and following through with the steps. Create an agreement with yourself and write it out and sign it.

“There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. 

Nothing can take its place. 

A purpose is the eternal condition of success.” -- Theodore Munger

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.” -- Mark Twain

Surprisingly enough, most of us haven’t put much effort into figuring out what we want in life. If we do have something in mind, we may not have examined it as closely as we might to ensure it truly represents our heart’s desire. 

In this workbook, we’re going to give you a number of exercises to help you brainstorm your greatest wants and needs. Consider Steps 2 – “What do you want in life?” as research. Explore all possibilities. Be serious and playful. Gather as much data as you can on your interests and needs. Once you’ve explored your options thoroughly, you can weed out and refine to create your top goals. For now, break down all barriers that limit you from choosing what you want. Go for it!

 EXERCISE:

Draw 3 columns and 3 rows equally spaced on a sheet of paper to create a grid of 9 boxes. Answer each of the 9 questions below in one of the 9 boxes. (Having all the information on one page forces your mind to see a bigger picture and creative interconnections of ideas.)

You don’t have much room in each box, so aim to capture the essence of what you’re seeking in just a few words. And please don’t agonize over getting the “right” answers in each box. You’re brainstorming here. Write down what comes to mind. You can always change your entries. In fact, that’s the beauty of the process. As you explore, you’ll refine your thinking. Your direction will become increasingly clear. So do your best but don’t spend days on it.

As you answer these questions, stretch your thinking and your imagination. Imagine you could have anything you wanted. Imagine that there are no money or time or resource limitations. What do you most want?  

 1.      What did you enjoy last year that you want more of?

2.      What do you want less of compared to last year?

3.      What do you want this next year that’s new, that you haven’t had before? Think of  results, experiences, values, feelings.

4.      What do you want physically? E.g., material things, health, energy, exercise, sleep

5.      What do you want emotionally? E.g., feelings, passions, balance, esteem, love

6.      What do you want mentally? E.g., to learn, to create, to read, to design, to express, to release

7.      What do you want spiritually? E.g., pleasure, service, beauty, peace, joy, unity

8.      What do want to achieve in your career? E.g., financial goals, new job, your own business, another income stream

9.      What do you want to achieve with family, friends, relationships, community?

When you’re finished, review what you’ve written.

Which five items are most IMPORTANT to you right now?

Which five are the most URGENT for you to address now?

"If you don’t have the courage to pursue your own goals, you leave yourself open to the many people who will be only too happy to recruit you to pursue theirs." - Jimmy Calano

“A happy life should be in balance. One must live equally in the mind, body and spirit. Those who are lacking in one of these three attributes cannot be totally happy. It is only by keeping all three nourished through the rich resources at our call that we can help tap the true source of our strength.” – Lillian Gish

Reflect on your answers to the questions in Step 2 and ask yourself, “How balanced is my life?” In her book, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan Jeffers recommends that we identify the key elements we want/need in our life. They might be: career, intimate relationship, health, family, friends, personal growth, leisure, service, spiritual growth, personal time, finances, etc.

EXERCISE:

1. Identify the elements you want in your life.

2. On a scale of 1 – 10, rate how fulfilled you are in each area.

3. Do you have goals for each of them? Write out some goals for any part of your life that wasn’t addressed satisfactorily in the chart in Step 2.

4. Do some areas need more attention than others? Identify priorities for attention and action. 

“Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, 

and then go after that?”  -- William Ross

In this exercise, we want you to probe beneath the surface to connect with what you REALLY want in life. We tend to identify physical objects or circumstances as our targets, when what we really want is the feeling, quality or experience we believe that object will bring us. For example, I may say I want more money, but what I really want is the freedom to live the way I choose.

EXERCISE:

Ask someone you trust to assist you. Their task is to repeatedly ask you the two questions below for a period of 5 minutes. They will also record your answers for you. They are not to respond to your answers in any way, with either words or physical expressions.

The two questions are:

1. “What do you want out of life?”

2. “Why do you want that?”

Keep your answers short. Allow whatever is inside to come out, without judgment of any kind. Repetition of  answers is okay.

What do your answers say about what is most important to you? Now that you know what you REALLY want, can you think of new goals that might bring this to you? In your journal, write about your insights from this process.

“Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.”

-- Paul Vernon Buser 

“As you climb the ladder of success, 

make sure the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” 

– Source unknown

Too often we do things for others and not for ourselves. We do things based on what we have habitually done and not on what we are drawn towards. Too often we stay within our comfort zone of mediocrity and never truly realize our potential. The more you can align your goals with your essence and value system, the more you can experience desire and drive, courage, synergy, a flow and a more meaningful life.

So how does one connect with one’s purpose?

If you want to explore this in depth, Higher Awareness offers members an online workbook to help you identify your life purpose. To order this workbook and all others, click here: http://www.higherawareness.com/lifepurpose.shtml

EXERCISES:

You may get a sense of your life purpose by answering the following questions:

1.      What do you most love to do, e.g., lead, teach, nurture, create, communicate, mediate, invent, research, organize, inspire or …? (Appendix 1 at the end of this workbook lists action verbs to help you intuitively connect with your most passionate activities.)

2.      What is your most joyous activity?

3.      What gives you the greatest sense of meaning in life?

4.      What values, qualities and virtues do you stand for? (See Appendix 2 for a list of 100 values to select from)

5.      In what ways would you like to help people?

6.      What do you feel is your true vocation or service?

Your life purpose doesn’t have to be one that changes the world. It must, however, possess the power to change your world—to bring you the passion, energy and enthusiasm to motivate you to offer something of yourself. Your life purpose is your gift of yourself to others.

From the answers to the above questions:

1.      What do you feel most strongly about?

2.      Can you put your purpose into one statement? Examples of life purpose statements are:

-         I want to lobby for better child labor laws.

-         I want to free myself from fear.

-         I want to support others in becoming the best they can be.

If you still do not have a sense of what it is, take a guess at what it might be. PUT A LABEL ON IT. Write something down. Make your purpose big enough so it stretches your thinking. Once you have something written, you can monitor your reaction to it when you review it over time. You will be able to fine-tune it till it feels right for you. It will change your life.

Now review your notes from the last exercises and ensure your purpose is reflected in the goals you’ve drafted so far. Remember, aligning your goals with your innate purpose, gifts, talents and beliefs greatly enhances your chance of success and joy.

"We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of love, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime." -- Herbert Otto

At a seminar in Edmonton, Canada, David Irvine spoke about how we continually juggle balls in our lives. Some of these balls are made of rubber. If we drop them, they bounce. No damage is done and we can go after them any time and throw them back into the air.

Some of our balls, however, are made of glass. If we drop them, they shatter and the damage cannot be repaired.

Irvine challenges us to identify and zealously protect the glass balls in our lives. Examples of glass balls would be spending time with our loved ones, updating our wills, buying the different kinds of insurance, and looking after our health. We never know what life will bring us or when a major crisis may hit. We want to do what we can to look ahead and be prepared.

EXERCISE:

What glass balls do you need to attend to in your life?

What goals can you set to protecting them?

What priority would you give to these goals?

“It's not hard to make decisions when 

you know what your values are.”     -- Roy Disney

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life 

than the greatest of things without it.” -- Source Unknown  

“The purpose of goals is to focus our attention. 

The mind will not reach toward achievement until it has clear objectives. 

The magic begins when we set goals. 

It is then that the switch is turned on, the current begins to flow, 

and the power to accomplish becomes a reality."

 -- From the Best of Success, compiled by Wynn Davis

 We are well served when we map out a series of short-term, mid-term and long-term goals. Our minds can work on many things at once, so write out lots of goals. Try for 100. The act of writing them down, linked with the power of the thinking process, can double the chances of your goals coming to life.

A long-term goal could be one that’s dramatically different from your present situation. It’s there that we can write down the dreams that at present seem far-fetched and impossible to achieve. But “impossible” exists only in our minds. Any day, we may choose to change our minds, and then who knows what might transpire? Don’t discount any of your secret desires. Miracles happen!

Defining our long-term goals also tells us what we need to do in the short- and mid-term for the long-term goals to be realized. You may find it helpful to write down some long-term goals, e.g., three years, then work backwards to determine what needs to be accomplished this year to get you to where you want to be in three years.

And finally, having short, mid and long-term goals sets up a framework of purpose for our lives. If we set our direction clearly, we have the foundation for effective decision-making. If a decision needs to be made, it will be clear to us whether or not the action under consideration will move us towards our goals. If it doesn't, we have the choice of altering our goals or choosing not to undertake the action. All this helps us develop intention and attention to what we want to achieve in life.

EXERCISE:

Review all of the ideas you have written down as you explored your desires. Which goals stand out as priorities for you? You cannot have too many goals, but it is advisable to only work on a handful at once. For some people, working on only one at a time is best.

Select those that you want to focus on now.

What short-term goals will honor your commitments to yourself and others, protect the glass balls we talked about in Step 6, and set up behavior for success?

What mid-term goals are important for you?

What goals do you want to accomplish in this lifetime? Write them down! Take this first step to bring your dreams to reality.

Here’s an exercise to make sure you are on the right path. We cannot emphasize strongly enough the power of connecting with your deepest inner motivations and values.

EXERCISE:

Identify your top 4 goals for the next year or two. For each of them ask yourself, why you want to complete that goal? Why is it so important to you? Make a list of reasons that come to mind for each goal. Spend some time completing this exercise.

Now reflect on your motivations and ask yourself,  “What else can I do to experience each motivation or value?”  This will help you to fine tune your important goals. Update your goal  list.

“Determine that the thing CAN and SHALL BE DONE and 

then we shall find the way.” -- Abraham Lincoln

Now that you have a sense of your goals, let us look at how to format them.

A common format is to create "BE SMART" goals (Specific, Measurable, Action, Reward, Timing, BEnefits).

1.      Specific (WHAT) – Describe what you want as clearly as you can.

2.      Measurable - How will you know when you have achieved your goal or if you are getting closer?

3.      Action (HOW) - What action is most needed to accomplish your goal?

4.      Reward (CELEBRATION) - Identify a meaningful reward for when you achieve your goal, e.g., buy yourself something, have a party, etc.

5.      Timing (WHEN) - Set a date for completion, set dates for reaching milestones or establish a rate (e.g., lose 2 pounds per month) that will get you to your target.

6.      Benefits (WHY) - Why do you want to attain this goal? Connect with your motivation, values, purpose and essence.

EXERCISE:

Set up a table like the one below to write out your goals.

Example: "I see my home as sold (S) for $100,000 (M) by March 1 of next year (T) by cleaning it, painting it and listing it (A) so I can be creative and peaceful in a new home that is more roomy, sunny and conveniently located (BE) and when I move in, I will have a big house party (R)."

The key here is to be as specific as you can about what you want. It is also important that you make your goals realistic. Only you can judge what is attainable for you, and it may take some practice to get a feel for this. If you are unsure about how much you can accomplish first time around, set goals you are confident you can meet. You must be able to believe that you can reach your goal. Success breeds success, so to begin with, it's important that you meet your goals. Once you are more comfortable with the process, you will be inspired to reach higher. You may be surprised at just how capable you are once you clearly know what you’re after!

For the moment, don’t bite off more than you can chew. Give yourself time to experience and learn the process and build good habits.

“Concentrate on finding your goal, 

then concentrate on reaching it.” – Michael Friedsam

“The power to move the world is in the subconscious mind.” 

-- William James

 Too often people set goals and then never reconnect with them. To achieve your goals, you must make them part of your everyday thinking, doing and being.

When we can anchor our goals deeply in our subconscious minds, we bring all the power of the subconscious into play in manifesting what we desire. The subconscious is immensely powerful, and it obeys without challenge all directions from the conscious mind. Our goal is to control our thinking and self-talk so we feed the subconscious clear, consistent, constructive messages.

To do that requires REPETITION, AUTHORITY and PEACE OF MIND – RAP. When you give clear, consistent messages to the subconscious, then people, resources and events that support your goals will be attracted to you like a magnet.

We are most effective in anchoring our goals in our subconscious when we use the following tools: repetition, affirmation, visualization, meditation, ritual and symbols. You must use at least 4 growth tools at the same time to provide enough stimulation and tension to change the subconscious.

Here are some tips to anchor goals deeply within you:

1. Write them down! Regularly write out your full set of goals. Then every day write down your action plan for how you are going to achieve the important and immediate ones

2. Review them daily, and if you can, multiple times daily.

3. Create statements affirming what you want to achieve. To use affirmations effectively:

§         Use only positive statements. The subconscious doesn’t process negatives. Always say, “I love wealth” rather than “I hate poverty.”

§         State them in the present tense, as though you already have that which you desire, e.g. I am doing work I love.

§         Write them down. Keep them visible to remind you of them often.

§         Repeat affirmations at least 3 times with each session. 

§         Say them to yourself or out load with feeling - speak emphatically, confidently, joyously and with conviction.

§         Tell the truth – affirm only what you can believe. If you don’t, this will create unhealthy conflict within you. If you can’t fully believe in having what you deeply desire, can you believe in the possibility of having it? If so, state your affirmation in progressive terms. For example, “I am becoming more healthy every day.” Again, only use words you can accept as a fact in your life.

§         Use affirmations that feel right for you. Don’t hesitate to create your own, using the guidelines above. 

4. Peace of mind heightens our ability to send clear, focused messages to the subconscious. Relax, take deep breaths regularly, get into a meditative state and call to mind your ideal picture of your goals. When you’re calm and relaxed, affirm your new reality. A clear inner picture will naturally out picture.

5. Visualize success. Whenever possible, create mental pictures to match your affirmations. Two tools are always better than just one! Begin to create clear pictures in your mind of the new reality you desire for yourself. Use your imagination! The only limits to our lives are those we place on ourselves. With your imagination, break through whatever limits you’ve adopted from your past. Imagine having your dreams come true.

Visualize what you want, but not how you want to get it. Your subconscious will figure out how to manifest your desires. Use mental pictures, symbols, colors, music, the senses, breath work and play. Use metaphors and analogies, as the subconscious mind is very indirect.

Experience how it feels to have your goals realized. Involve as many senses as you can in your imagination. Put life, passion and feeling into your focus.

6. Engage in any activities you can think of to reinforce your intentions. Create a ritual in support of your goal. Sing, draw, act out or do a collage to anchor your goals more deeply into the subconscious. Write a letter of appreciation, as if the goal has been achieved, and be descriptive.

7. The subconscious mind, which is immensely powerful, works best with pictures and symbols. We want to create a new vision for ourselves - new beliefs, new images, new behavior, a new reality. Set up icons or symbols as triggers and put them around your house and office.

8. Create action plans for those goals that require multiple steps to be achieved. What steps must be undertaken? What obstacles must be removed? Who else and what resources are involved? Create a plan for each goal. What is your first, simple step?

9. Talk with people you trust about your goals and your action plan to achieve them.

Make your goals a part of your being. Use at least 4 of the above methods to really let the subconscious mind know you are serious about your goals. Believe you have already succeeded in your aims. Most importantly, review your goals regularly. The very best practice is to review them first thing in the morning and just before you go to sleep at night.

EXERCISE:

Review the tools above and choose at least 4 that appeal to you. Create a plan for how you can incorporate these activities into your daily routine. Block the time needed on your calendar. Set and honor your intention to use these tools consistently.

“This is the great secret of human power and creativity. 

Your choice of belief, thought, emotion and action create your reality.”

– Delfin Knowledge System 

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. 

Willing is not enough; we must do.”

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

Now that you are anchoring goals deeply into your mind, how do you support this inner creative work on the physical plane? The key two words now are AWARENESS and ACTION.

Awareness:

With goals planted in your subconscious mind, you will attract more results into your life. Expect miracles, opportunities and synchronicity to happen. Be open and aware so you can catch them. Come from a place of “I know and believe it is happening.” Relaxing and enjoying some peace of mind heightens your awareness. If you allow yourself to get too busy, or if your mind is preoccupied with worries or fear, your power of attracting the resources to meet your goals is diminished, and many opportunities can be missed.

Action:

• Take small and consistent steps toward your goal. Establish a weekly goal setting session. If you know what you want to accomplish by the end of the year, you will understand what you need to do this month and this week. Give yourself deadlines for getting each week’s activities done. Small successes provide much motivation.

• Review your goals daily, if possible, and definitely every week in your goal setting session. Every week, clarify the directions you have set for yourself. Assess where you are moving forward and where you aren’t. Fine-tune, change and delete goals as necessary to stay in alignment with your desires. And enjoy the process—it’s just as important as the end result.

• Be persistent. While it is important to abandon goals that no longer feel right to you, be sure you don’t give up too easily on those that are meaningful but perhaps a real challenge to accomplish.

• Keep working on your action items. Synchronicity only happens when you are in action, not hiding at home or in the office.

• Do you need to create more space in your life so you have the time and energy to focus on what is important to you? How can you do this? What can you let go? Remember that it’s your life and your goals are your priority. Value and meet your own needs, and others will respect you for it. Complete your incompletes.  Stay organized.

• Do you have energy drains in your life that are limiting your ability to meet your goals? For support in addressing this question, check our 66 Energy Drains resource list, then consult our 76 Energy Builders list in Appendices 3 and 4.

• Help other people achieve their own goals. Know that your efforts in supporting others to achieve success will improve the likelihood of your own success. Remember, though, that balance is important. You don’t want to neglect your own priorities by focusing all your time and attention on serving others.

• Form a small support group or mastermind group to help keep everyone motivated and on track.

• On your calendar or day timer, protect your quality time for doing the most important things that will lead you to success. As Stephen Covey says “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

• Ask your intuition often for the next step, listen for its advice and follow it. (INTUIT and DO IT).

• We become more when we are willing to step away from familiar action by DOING something different. Einstein said, “The thinking that got you into a problem must change to get you out of the problem.” Look at options, ideas, opportunities. Be open. To break out of fixed patterns, we must take ourselves off auto-pilot and be more aware. Our heightened awareness opens our vision, and it's then that synchronicity happens. Be in motion, be in purposeful action. Practice doing different things and doing things differently.

• Be committed; stick with your plans as discipline fires your desires. Our thoughts and words and actions must be in alignment. As Nike says, "Just do it!" We only get results when we apply what we have learned. Decide how much time you can consistently manage on a daily basis. If you can't imagine finding 30 minutes each day for applying the ideas in this program, then can you start with 10 minutes? The secret is to establish a routine, to let your higher self and subconscious know that you are serious about taking control of your life. Even 10 minutes a day produces significant benefits that spill over into the rest of your life.

• Finally, be patient and be aware that incubation time is usually required to attract the right people, resources and events into your life. Also, be aware that the process of change often brings times of transition that can be experienced as fog, a void, dead zones. Don’t be discouraged—just recognize that this process is necessary to integrate new levels of awareness.

“God gives every bird his worm, 

but he does not throw it into the nest.” -- Swedish Proverb

“Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has a price. 

This price is effort.” -- Loretta Young

“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? 

I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than 

safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.” -- A.E. Hotchner 

We will be offering more detailed information on how to track your progress a few months into the email program. For now, simply keep your key goals in front of you and on your mind.

At your weekly review session, ask yourself questions. Where are my goals unclear? What is stopping me from getting results? For the greatest benefit of all concerned, what is the next best thing for me to do? Open-ended questions that can’t be answered with a simple yes or no are powerful in leading us into new ways of thinking. This will help you stay on track with your highest interests.

You may want to plot your goals out on a chart and update regularly. What can you measure that’s meaningful to you? E.g., pounds lost, miles ran, sales made, goals scored, dollars earned, books read, hours spent with family.

When you complete a goal, celebrate! This really anchors the whole manifesting process into your psyche and tells both your conscious and subconscious minds that you can do it again. Consider having fun when you see the end result a great ritual.

“Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top.

 Then you will see how low it was.” -- Dag Hammarskjold

“In all our acts of manifestation, 

we are really only manifesting a new aspect of ourselves. 

We are giving our lives a new shape. 

We are the primary object of our manifestation.” – David Spangler