Write down your goals..why and what next?

I prefer taking taking three goals head on. Only that I prefer finishing off the first one then moving on to the next. This way I dont have to write the other two down.

Hi James,

Sorry I am unable to answer each of the questions but what I will say is that every person is different and what works for someone, doesn't for someone else.

I have been a follower of the Law of Attraction and positive thinking for years now and I have worked on each of the methods you have said, to a varying success.

With regards to your 1st question - when I write down affirmations with a date, I say by a specific date, so that means that my request can happen before and up to that date. Sometimes these don't happen and I then I look into the reasons why it may not have - I have found blockages this way that i didn't think I first had.

I hope the little I have answered helps, I often visit Steve Pavlina's Personal Development for Smart People's forum - there is an intention manifestation section which may be helpful for you.

All the best.

It is a well known fact that people that write down their goals tend to achieve them more than people that don't. This is based on the fact that focusing and concentrating the mind is very powerful for achieving goals. So this why just focusing by writing them down is powerful.

I agree that you can write something down and forget about it... it will come to pass, I have had that happen to me too many times to be a conincidence

And repetition of affirmations is highly dangerous, I am very strongly against it.

I have long term goals and daily goals - my daily goals are only 4 tasks per day, some days are easy, other days the tasks take a little longer.

When I am product creating my days are allot longer, I break down the product to 4 tasks. I do no more than that.

This is what my very successful mentors taught me and it seems to be working out well

Hope this helps

Reminds me of the courses I use to go on at work!

I try write my goals every evening, for next day. And at the end of week, most important goals in next week. And at the end of month, most important goals for next month. Sometimes I even force myself, but I think is good to write goals, plan them, etc.

I don't know what it is with the writing, but what ever I learn, when I write it, it get imprinted into my mind. But when I just think about something it will be replaced as soon as a new thought comes into my mind.

I don't believe too much in affirmation, because I start more to feel that I don't have it and I stopped taking action. I think it is more to affirm your goal. For me is to daily affirm my goal, by working towards it.

See when you write a goal and never look on it, it will be forgotten. When I write my goal in steps like the project I am working on it, I easy confirm what is done and what is the next step. In the same time when I hit a blank phase I will ask how I can solve my challenge or what I need to do next to get the results. The question always need to be ask to get that aha moment to move forward. When you ask question, why it is not working for you? you always will get negative answer which will keep you away from moving forwards and finding the results you are looking for

In the same time, I done the mistake to spend too much time on goal writing and affirmation, which on the end means absolutely nothing. The best tip is to write a goal like business writing a business plan, and that just jump in and take massive action, and solve your problems when they show up. Be aware that you will make many mistakes, which is normal because you are learning, but learn from your mistakes and make correction, and than move on, but never lose the end results out your site.

Most people think to much and miss taking action towards their goals. That no matter how many times you write your goals on a piece of paper, it never can happen until you start working on it. That means you want a online business, than you must start building your website, writing content and have a niche that makes you money, than learn the skills to drive massive traffic to that site and how to communicate with people.

Glenn Dietz said "writing is the doing part of thinking". Writing things down seems to help me get started but dates seem to slow me down again.

My angle? Write them down, immerse yourself in them and the feeling you will get when you accomplish them but leave out the dates and replace them all with ASAP! Goals are ok (aims and directions are better) but dates will slow you down plus they remind you of what you don't have every single day - who needs that? Not me.

The purpose of writing a goal is to solidify it in your mind and to actually put an initial physical action toward that goal (the physical action is to write it out, therefore putting bodily energy toward it).

Second - if you think it's rubbish, you're kinda wasting your time already, aren't you?

Third - affirmations can be done whenever you think of it, but should be done when you wake up to start your day with your goal as your first intention.

Repeat your affirmations whenever you think of it or when you feel yourself losing focus or confidence. There is no magic number. What the affirmations do is over-ride negative programming, which can take time if you are sufficiently screwed up to really need continual affirmations to negate the programming.

I find visualization much more effective than affirmations, although they work together. When I start to get some solid visualization going, though, that's when stuff starts to happen that sets me back in my chair a little bit. Example? I needed a new car but didn't have the cash. I couldn't figure out what kind of vehicle I wanted anyways. One day I saw it - fawn metallic Jeep Patriot with tan interior. I saw it in a picture and fell in love with it - knew that was what I wanted. The darned thing may as well have fallen out of the sky at me. I had it within 3 weeks of figuring out what I wanted - but I visualized very intensely on it.

You called it crap. If it's being crap, you aren't doing it right - once you hit the right wave, things happen very rapidly. I don't write a lot of goals, lists, or that tripe, but I visualize very realistically. Once you can see something clearly enough - it's (the energy) is already entering the reality stage. If you can visualize what it will be like when you reach your goal - go backwards from there and the steps to get there will become apparent. You have to reverse engineer a goal, not build toward it.