Systematize Your Goal Setting

Here is the process that I’m using to anchor my creation of my world. I salute Christine Kane and Susan Elliott, as primary teachers who helped me shape this system.

Becoming Clear

1) I went through this process here: Posting.

Setting My Intents

2) I decided what I intended in the Relationship, Spiritual, Career, and Physical parts of my life. I wrote these intents on cards, beginning each intent with this phrase, “With comfort and ease, and for my highest good…” Each intent is written in present tense. If you have trouble with that, you can write, “I am in the process of v-ing…”

3) I wrote affirmations that supported my intents, for example, “I am good with money.”

4) I clarified long term goals and divided them up into steps. I wrote three goals for the week and the month on my cards.

Showing Up

5) Every morning, I read through all my cards. After I finish, I spent about ten minutes visualizing having all my intents and really experiencing the emotions and life with all my intents realized.

Warning: Changing too fast is like changing the thermostat quickly before you’ve dressed appropriately. You are likely to feel uncomfortable, or you might start self-sabotaging. Realize that when you are making changes, the opposite of everything that you want comes to stare you down. Try to make your changes a slow gradual degree by degree. Don’t get disheartened that change in some areas has resulted in you being worse off in another. YOU CAN DO IT.

Tip: In order to gain leverage on yourself for change (tip from personal development guru Tony Robbins), write a journal for yourself on how MISERABLE living the way you are is making you. This is like getting permission for someone else to do something- you have to make the case to your MIND, which sometimes has got a gosh-darn mind of its own!

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