The Importance of Goal
Setting
I was coaching a young lady from Norway
recently. I was explaining the importance of goal setting. She was having
trouble accepting the idea that setting goals and wanting stuff she didn't have
was okay with her.
She felt it was non-spiritual to be
always wanting, never satisfied with what she had. Her teaching from Norway made
having money "a bad thing". She came to the United States, believing that all
Americans were greedy, because this is what she was told. She no longer believes
that, but her learned ideas about money are still a barrier to her becoming
rich.
She was having difficulty accepting my
point of view about the importance of having a goal. She didn't believe goal
setting had anything to do with spiritual growth, and I was attempting to show
her that achieving a goal is actually a
spiritual journey.
I explained that God, as spirit, in
man, can be satisfied only when being creative, and spirit can create only in a
material reality. Spirit creates by a process
called self-contemplation, which is a spiritual process,
but it experiences that creation only in the material
world. To be spiritual means to be creative,
and therefore spirit must continually create new realities as a part of the
process of being and becoming.
Our God given power lies in our ability
to choose who we will be. That choice is a non-experience until demonstrated in
the material world. Goal setting is just the first and most important step in
the creative process.
My friend from Norway wanted to know
why we couldn't just be satisfied with what we had.
I suggested that she might be confusing
happiness and satisfaction. You can choose to be happy under any circumstances,
but satisfaction only comes from the completion
of something attempted. Once satisfied, more
of the same won't make you more satisfied.
It takes another goal and another completion to achieve and experience
satisfaction again.
Being and becoming is our spirit's
mission in life. The purpose of that mission is
self-discovery. The process doesn't end with one mission accomplished.
As spirit, our mission is to grow in
consciousness. As ego our mission is to maintain status quo.
The two missions appear to be in conflict. They are really not. Spirit in us
chooses who we will be; ego provides us with that experience. The conflict
comes when we choose a goal and ego resists that change, temporarily. What you
need to know is that once ego buys the newly chosen point of view, it will
arrange for you to experience that point of view as your reality.
Life is simply a process of choosing
who to be, and then in having the satisfaction of living your life temporarily
as that choice.
Life can only be exciting when we have
a mission, and, conversely life becomes a bore when we stop the creative process
and start coasting. If you want to enjoy life, choose to be enthusiastically
moving toward your chosen goal. The word "enjoy", means put joy into.
The real choice in life is this, you
get to live your life as your ego, fearfully maintaining status quo or as spirit
enthusiastically living life on the edge. It's your choice.
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Chapter 1, The Quantum Leap,
from my book
"To God Or As God" - Pg 12.
The point is, if your
motivation for those quantum leaps was to find happiness, you've been
barking up the wrong tree. The bluebird of happiness isn't up in that
tree or anyplace else you'd care to look for it. But it'll come sit on
your shoulder once you've stopped chasing it.
If your motivation for
taking the quantum leaps is to seek satisfaction and growth in
consciousness, you're on the right track. And since satisfaction is
experienced only on the completion of anything attempted, you'll be
finding more and more ways to satisfy your hunger for growth.
The Game of Life is designed
so that you'll be inspired to take one quantum leap after the other. And
your journey through life will be a great deal more enjoyable if you'll
allow yourself to see that you're seeking satisfaction, not happiness. A
change of circumstances can't make you happy; happiness is just a BEING
choice.
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Chapter 3 - The Success Secret
from my book
"So, Why Aren't You Rich?" -
Pg. 70
Just Doing Its Job
We all have an attitude, a point of view about
life that has become our reality. Our ego allows us to experience life
in a way that corresponds exactly to our chosen point of view. We
therefore see and hear only that which complements that viewpoint.
After our ego screens out everything that
doesn't fit our chosen reality, what's left is what belongs with us by
right of consciousness (our level of awareness). So, don't fault your
ego for rearranging the facts. It is only doing it's job.
To change your circumstances, you will need to
change your outlook to correspond to the new and better circumstances
you want. You can expect the ego to resist this change by defending your
current outlook.
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Chapter 2 - Nine Steps to Personal
Freedom
from my book
"Being The Solution" -
Pg. 24
What you want from life is the bait, that will
hopefully, motivate your choosing out of your box, but having it won't
be your real gain. Your growth in consciousness will be the most
important benefit of your coming out. Each trip out of the box empowers
you, bringing you a little closer to knowing who you really are. The
real purpose of your life is self-discovery, and that can only happen if
we can get you outside the box. Every trip out of your box becomes a
transformation in consciousness, if you can make it out to stay.
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