Happy New Year’s Goals
I’m reading a fascinating book by David Cameron Gikandi. A Happy Pocket Full of Money is full of refreshing insights and great techniques in ways to use Law of Attraction to create what we want. But what I love most about it is the way it offers effective ways to act in the world while using Law of Attraction. In other words, you learn to use Law of Attraction in a joyful way, not simply as a tool to get what you want. For example, in the chapter on goal setting, Gikandi suggests most of us suffer from a lack of goals, rather than too lofty goals. He contends we need to have an abundance of goals and to always set our goals just beyond what we are currently experiencing. The reason for this is once we achieve a goal, if we have no new goal to focus on, we shift our attention from achieving something to simply maintaining what we have. The focus on maintenance embraces all kinds of fears and “what ifs” and is not the kind of vibration we want to offer if we are trying to create better and better experiences.
Now this was an interesting insight that I’d never considered before. As I looked at the list of goals I made one year ago today and considered the ones not yet achieved in this new context, I realized they were not a list of my failures. Indeed, I achieved quite a few of the goals I made for myself for 2009. Instead, I now see those unfulfilled goals as points of focus for the energy the Universe pours into my experience. The unachieved goals are still there, waiting to either be fulfilled or to change direction toward other goals.
Gikandi suggests we have at least five thousand or more goals at any given time, big goals and small, to draw more of what we want into our lives. I admit, I’ve kept my goals simple, small, certain not to disappoint. But as I head into the new year, I intend to get clear on my goals, to allow myself to push the envelope to draw more specific and perfect details into my life with my goals. I intend to focus on my goals, to write them down, and to never again think of unachieved goals as failures.
Here’s to a new decade of successes! Happy New Year!
