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Introduction

Deciding to set goals is one of the most important things you can do to improve your life. However, nearly 98% of people take the time to set clear goals for themselves in their life. It's essential for you to think about where you want to be, whether it's in one month, one year, or one decade from today. Taking the time to identify where you want to be is the best way to make sure you are going in the right direction and help you avoid pursuing goals that don't excite you.
Those who don't set goals for their life may not believe that they have any control over their lives, leading them to wander through life heavily influenced by the people and circumstance that surround them. They give their power over to the environment rather than using it to create the experiences they genuinely desire. This results in them achieving less than if they would have taken the time to set specific goals and plan their lives.

However, it is important to remember that merely having goals isn't enough. Something that can be just as bad as not having any goals in life have unclear goals that are not aligned with what you want out of your life. Unfortunately, many of the people who take the time to set goals, spend years in single-minded pursuit of a single goal, only to achieve it with the sudden realization that it isn’t want they genuinely wanted.

Setting specific goals is one of the best decisions you can make in your life. Learning to set the right goals will allow you to tap into your intrinsic motivation, live autonomy, mastery, or purpose, and put you on the right path for uncovering your hidden potential. This book will help you define your goals, as well as the kind of life you want to create. It will help you set goals that will inspire you and make you want to leap out of bed every morning. You might be intimidated about setting goals at first, but you’ll discover that the journey is more than worth it in the long run.

Chapter 1 – Why It’s Important to Set Goals

Setting goals gives direction to your subconscious mind, helping you to achieve your goals. They give you a path in life. However, setting vague goals like “I want to make more money,” or “I want to live a happy life,” won’t end up leading you to a fulfilling life. Your subconscious is a powerful machine, and gaining an understanding of how it works is a big part of setting goals that are successful. Maxwell Maltz, the author of Psycho-Cybernetics, explains how setting goals gives your subconscious mind direction.

"Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than “you” ever could by conscious thought. “You” supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means,”

Your subconscious mind behaves similarly to GPS; it is continuously scanning the environment around you for the information relevant to the details you've given it. This is why setting goals that are clear will provide you with a higher chance of accomplishing them. A strong signal is sent to your subconscious mind, allowing it to unleash its power of focusing on looking for opportunities to achieve the goal.

Setting Goals Empowers You

When you begin setting your own goals, in all significant areas of your life, rather than letting someone else set them for you, you stop giving your power away. When you set goals for your relationships, finances, career, health, and personal life, you begin to take your control back and become more empowered. You begin to make the conscious choice to become the creator of your own life and start to take responsibility for every single aspect of your life.

Taking the time to figure out your goals for your future will make a significant impact in your life. What would you do differently today if you knew how much you wanted to make in five years, where you wanted to be in twenty-five years, or how long you wanted to live?

Setting Goals Improves Your Self-Esteem

When you set clear goals, you can begin to improve your self-esteem. Having clear goals and knowing what you need to do to accomplish those goals not only builds your self-esteem but reinforces it as well. Part of our self-esteem, according to Nathaniel Branden, author of ‘The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem,’ comes from a disposition to experience ourselves as competent to cope with life’s challenges. This means that with every goal that you accomplish, you will feel better equipped to deal with other goals and problems in life.

One of the best predictors of personal happiness is directly related to high self-esteem. Consistently accomplishing the goals you set for yourself is one of the most efficient ways to build your self-esteem.

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It’s always a fun thought experiment to imagine what you would do and what you would buy if you won the lottery. If you had a million dollars, where would you be right now? Maybe you’d buy a beautiful home on the coast, or maybe you’d travel the world and see all the sights. Perhaps you’d start your own business?

It’s fun to imagine these things but of course it is also somewhat limiting. There’s only so much that you could accomplish by winning the lottery and of course this is all tied to what you can achieve with financial clout alone. What would be much more interesting would be to imagine that you had three wishes.

If you met a genie and they said you could have any three wishes, what would you wish for?

I’m not asking hypothetically, I want you to play along and answer. What would you wish for right now?

Here are the rules: you cannot wish for more wishes. The Aladdin rule that you can’t wish for someone to love you is out though. That’s totally on the cards.

The other rule is that you’re not allowed altruism. So, no wishing for world peace, no wishing that your friends will be happy. This is about you. This is about what you want. Two more rules: it has to be physically possible. No wishing that you were immortal or that you could fly. Finally, no wishing for anything as a ‘means to an end’. In other words, don’t wish for a billion dollars and think that’s you sorted because you can buy all the rest. That’s just boring… Be more specific!
But nothing else is off the table. You can have riches, you can have fame, you can have a boat. You can become a rock star, you can find love, you can write a book. You name it.

What do you want? Write it down and put it somewhere safe.

Now here is the good news: I’m about to become your magical genie. Minus the beard and the song and dance number. Otherwise though, I’m going to give you what you want.

Or rather, I’m going to do something even better. I’m going to show you how to get everything you want. I’m going to show you how to become your own genie.
Because if you teach a guy to fish and blah, blah, blah. Enough pre-amble. Let’s do this. In this book, you’ll learn how to get out there and get what you want for yourself and to stop settling for less.

Chapter 1: The Law of Attraction – True or False?

In this first chapter, I’m going to talk about the thing you’re probably already expecting me to talk about. That’s the law of attraction. It seems only fitting that I touch on this first, seeing as you’re probably already thinking that you know the answers and how you can get everything you’ve ever wanted.

For those who don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, let’s go over it quickly.

What is the Law of Attraction?

The ‘law of attraction’ is a concept that has been popularized by a number of self-help gurus, blogs and books and that claims it can help you to accomplish literally anything with the greatest ease. The premise is simple: as you are, so you will attract.

Or to put it another way: fake it until you make it.

The example that is often used at this point to describe the notion is that of giving someone a gift. When you go to give someone a gift, you will usually start by assessing what they have and what they might like. If you have a friend of humble means, who doesn’t like splashing cash and who has hobbies like gardening
and reading, you’ll probably get them a book and some gardening gloves with a nice pattern.

Now imagine your other friend. You keep a wide range of company apparently and this person is rich. Ostentatiously so. They splash cash all the time, they talk about their exotic holidays non-stop, they have all the latest gadgets and their home is absolutely beautiful, perfectly modern and kitted out with a ton of exciting features.

What do you buy them? They have everything. They are used to a certain standard of living. So, you probably get them theatre tickets. Or an experience day. Or a cool gadget. A beautiful watch.

You get the point. The rich friend and the person who ‘acts rich’, actually gets more spent on them. They have put signals out into the universe as it were, and the universe has responded in kind. Someone who puts out humble signals and maybe doesn’t ‘act’ quite so rich, ends up with a gift that is much lower in value. Which doesn’t really make sense: surely the less rich friend would appreciate something more extravagant more? Surely it would mean more to them?

This isn’t just about giving gifts though. The same rules hold true in practically everything you do. Imagine those same two people going for a job interview. Who will be offered the more high-paid job?

Simply by acting like someone who is used to a certain standard of living, you will communicate certain ideas to your employers and they will likely see fit to offer you more money to work for them!