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Today I read an interesting article in the newspaper.  It had to do with how we are setting our goals and reading all the latest motivational articles and books like ‘the Secret’ and ‘The Answer’ etc.  The article went on to criticise the practice of us dreaming and imagining that we can have anything as we are often disappointed when it doesn’t happen.  Things like making our New Year resolutions and being disappointed when we can’t stick to it.

I found  myself agreeing to certain points made in the article, however, I like ‘The Secret’ and have read a lot of self help books like ‘Think and Grow Rich’, ‘Feel the Fear and do it Anyway’ and ‘Powerful Changes’.  What I did disagree with was the article blaming the self help promoters for promoting these ‘you can pull anything out of thin air if you think about it hard enough’ concepts…if you can call it that…..as I think the article and author missed the point.

The whole concept about the universe getting in line with what you want and giving it to you is a miss conception and I believe, misunderstood by most people that read these books.  This visualisation is only a small part of the whole picture and what most fail to do and to continually work at is exactly that…..they must work at it!

They must work little by little, piece by piece towards that which they want.  It must be a clear vision with a clear goalwith a clear path and clear reward at the end.  It is not good enough to get sidetracked by the ‘You can have it today’ promoters; you must make a plan, stick to it and not deviate from it unless you absolutely have to!  (eg: life threatening).  Then and only then will the stars align and give you the thing you so desire.  

So…..that got me thinking about my vision and goals and my plan……more later!   ;-)

See you soon

Andrew