Does Goal Setting Lead To Spiritual Growth?
Acting as a prosperity coach for a young lady from Norway, 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 for 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 US, believing what she was told, "that all Americans are
greedy". She has since changed her mind about 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.
To understand my explanation to her, you will need to accept the premise
that, as Ernest Holmes said: "God, in man, as man, is man." If you don't buy
that concept, you probably won't accept my explanation to her as follows.
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.
The young lady 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 sprit'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 become 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 the status quo or as spirit enthusiastically living life
on the edge. It's your choice!
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Chapter 1 - The Quantum Leap
"To God Or As God" - Pg. 4 & 5
You've done it before
You've taken many such quantum leaps in your life time,
but somehow you keep forgetting that you have that power, that capability. Your
quantum leaps were those times when, in the spur of the moment, you decided to
change your mind about who you would be. Your commitment to a new way of being
you was a quantum leap out of one reality into another.
Think about having the power to choose for a
moment and you'll remember some of the times when you made those leaps
of faith.
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Chapter 1 - The Magic of Being
Transformed
from my book
"So, Why Aren't You Rich?" -
Pg. 27
An Ongoing Process
You might think, because of our built-in resistance to
change, that transformations would be an infrequent happening in our lives. That
is not the case!
We have been changing our minds
about who we would be all our lives.
I remember a time as a little boy, when I didn't like
little girls. I hated it when my cowboy hero kissed the girl. I don't know where
that idea came from or how long it lasted, but one day I realized that I had
changed my mind about girls. That change of mind was a transformation.
We've all had similar experiences of changing our minds
about what we considered important. In most cases, the change of mind expanded
our point of view and shed some self-imposed limitations. Some of those identity
changes slipped past us unnoticed and didn't seem like a transformation. Like
hair growing, they happened gradually over long periods of time. Other
transformations have been traumatic, painful experiences, because they happened
quickly.
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Chapter 2 - Nine Steps To
Personal Freedom
from my book
"Being The Solution" -
Pg. 24 & 25
When the ego takes on the new reality
Your powerful ego is "in charge" of your life
most of the time (it maintains the box you call reality). But during the
self-discovery process, you will come to realize that you are much more
than an ego, much more than you know. Even so, if you are to transform
the quality of your life, your ego, the one in charge of maintaining the
status quo, must finally come to accept your new vision as the new
reality, or you will surely fail in the attempt.
The tool for enlisting your ego in support of your
new vision is called the Power Pause, a transformational tool that will
get you past your ego's first line of defense and set you free of your
box. You'll learn how to use the Power Pause in Chapter 10.
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Pause.
When the transformation is successful, your ego
will take over the job of defending the new reality as it has the old
one. In short, before you can have what you want from life, you must BE
the one to whom it belongs. Once ego is recruited into the support of
the new reality, you're practically home free. The purpose of this book
is to show you how you can put your ego to work on making your dream BE
your reality.
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