STRATEGIES, GOALS AND VISION
By all accounts, Steve Jobs was a visionary. One late September day in 2001, he stormed into the office and seemed to be raving. “A thousand songs in your pocket! A thousand songs in your pocket!” He’d made a promise to his daughter to put a thousand of her favorite songs in her pocket. It was a promise that he fulfilled by creating the first I-pod. He was a man possessed, and what carried him to his goals was his ability to “see” it in his mind’s eye. Add that to his organizational skills and he was unstoppable!
How can we tap into that unstoppability? First order of business is to set a goal. Ask yourself: “what am I trying to achieve?” When cultivating a goal or looking to create a new one, I look toward my passions and my interests. I look at what may be missing in my world, or something I’d like to incorporate. I look toward an objective that is going to improve my life and add interest and value. Your interest and your curiosity are the breadcrumbs that your true self is leaving for you to follow.
It could be that you want to increase your income by a certain percentage. Maybe you want to create a love relationship or deepen the one that you’re in. You might be looking to add a habit or practice into your life, like working out, or learning yoga. Maybe you just love to paint! The point is, it has to be something you can want.
I’ve said it here and in my books that in order to manifest anything, you need three things:
- Intention- “I’m going to do (state your intention)”
- Burning Desire- fill your mind with pictures and images of what you want and of you getting it and celebrating
