Okay ladies and gentlemen, I’m about the spill the beans!

People keep asking me, “Why do we need a new way to set and achieve our goals and what’s different about your system?”

I feel an article coming on every time I’m asked this.  So let’s do it already!

Why do we need a new way?  For one thing, just look at the statistics on how many people choose something they want to be, do or have, then write it down, then follow that with a plan of action. I’ve seen stats that say 3% of college students. Dismal!

Why so low? My thought is because people have made a stab at it and it didn’t work so why do it again, it’s boring, they don’t believe in it, it’s hard and a struggle, it’s not taught in schools so it can’t be important, parents don’t teach it so it can’t be important, goals are something your boss tells you that you have to meet each month and it’s pressure and stressful, etc. etc. And all this is negative.  Therefore someone sees the word ‘goal´ and the immediate feeling is negative (unless it’s a football touchdown or hockey score kind of ‘goal’) and who wants to pursue something that doesn’t feel good?

Yet we all want something or many things!  There’s a disconnect here.

We need a new way of getting what we want because the old ways aren’t working.  It is ‘broke’ and we need to ‘fix it’.  I didn’t choose this topic for my business because it’s catchy and popular, I chose it because it’s what I know how to do and because I can teach it, it’s unpopular but I can make it popular, it’s not catchy but I can make it so and I know it is what I am supposed to be doing.  It’s the passion that drives my purpose. I cannot not do it.

Now we, who use the Internet to market our businesses, are taught to give people what they want and not what they need.  So my job is to educate, educate, educate until people want to learn and use a new way to get what they want.  It’s not easy (I never seem to choose ‘easy’), it takes lots of time, lots of investment, lots of self discipline, lots of tenacity, lots of energy and plenty of my own goal choosing and accomplishment to do this.

I could be marketing the latest trendy ‘jewelry’ for kitty cats and puppy dogs (people will buy anything for their pets, I know I do!), but I don’t do this to make fast money and it isn’t my purpose or passion.  I do this because my purpose is to ’lead people to discover their true value’.  I didn’t choose this purpose, I was born with it, just as you were also born with your purpose.

We are never happy with ‘things’.  We think things will make us happy until we get them and within a short time are looking for some new thing because we still aren’t happy.  What we are really looking for is happiness, but we don’t know what it looks like.  People are searching, just in the wrong direction.

The good news is that there is a shift going on, a shift in the planetary consciousness.  It started small and now is gathering speed with each day that passes.  Many old ways are not working, just look at the global economic situation, distribution of jobs, education, armed conflict and the gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. The word ‘greed’ comes to mind as a major cause. Well that’s what all this shifting is about; time to fix all this. And it is happening.

What’s different about my proprietary system of getting what you want?

In the past, goal setting was a left-brained purely ‘thinking’ procedure. I’ve known there was a missing link most of my life and I’ve been looking for it actively for two decades.   I know now what it is (that’s another and a long story), have devised my system, use it myself and know with certainty that it is aligned and interconnects with the ‘shift’ in consciousness leading us to our new ways to live and connect with other human beings on this globe.

The missing link is the heart. I have added heart to the process of you getting what you want. This isn’t the place to go into great detail, but keep an eye out because I will be doing this very soon in other ways. With your heart, you will be choosing inspired goals, you will know what happiness, or anything else you want, looks like. Acquiring our goals is going from “it will fill me up” to “it will fill me up so that I can in turn help fill someone else up.” The emphasis of our ‘global shifting’ is learning to put the emphasis on people and not just money. Pretty big shift I’d say!

 Your plan of action will be inspired action not activity. Activity is left brain centered and carries with it non-belief and lack of faith in ones self. Activity is forcing and struggling to make your goal happen.  Whereas inspired (in-spirit) action simply allows Universal Principles, or Laws if you prefer, to work through you and that’s what moves you. Activity feels difficult and fosters desperation, inspired action feels calm, certain, peaceful, joyful, goosebumpy, and fosters fulfillment.

This is why I wrote the book “Inspirational Goaling” http://www.inspirationalgoaling.com and this is why I keep doing what I do, so that I can feel fulfilled so that you can feel fulfilled and so that you can have what you want every time.

Keep on Goaling!

©Lynn Moore 2010

People want things in life. Sometimes material and sometimes intangible, but we all want more. The thing we don’t know most times is how to get them.  We spend life wishing and that’s as far as it goes. Or we make an attempt, but can’t be consistent or we give up at the first obstacle.

This can be completely reversed. How? By learning a few principles that are rarely taught. Let’s look at one in depth. 

See if you can guess what this one is as I give you more information on it. This is a principle that is fairly well known.  We have heard people tell us they reached their desired goal when they applied it and we’ve heard stories from others who say they applied it and it didn’t work for them.  Well, the reason it didn’t work is because they didn’t truly understand it. 

When this principle is applied you choose to create something in your life and usually you choose it because you have a strong desire for it. Great!  You are half way.  Your desire dials you into the vibrational frequency of the subject of your desire.  Just as if you dialed a phone number and were connected to the party you chose to talk to.

 When you dial that phone number do you expect to reach your intended source? Of course you do. In fact, you are surprised if you don’t!  But when it comes to dialing in to your goal many of us are surprised if it actually does manifest, you secretly allow yourself to think it won’t.  With a bit of time down the road you begin to lose your trust in this principle and allow some skepticism, you stress out over it, you ask, “Does this really work?” With this change in direction you must realize you now cause a disconnect with your target. You’re back where you started and fervently believe this principle doesn’t work and decide not to attempt to set a goal again.

Well what good is it for your phone to connect to your party yet you never talk to each other! There will be no interaction and nothing will happen. Your desire is the connection to the goal and your expectation is the magnet which draws you toward each other. When you connect with the person you wish to speak with on the phone you expect you will have a conversation and fulfill the purpose of your call. Do the same with your goal. Make the connection with desire and expect to see the manifestation.  So, with desire and expectation things begin to happen that draw you and your goal closer.  Ideas spring up, you see things and hear things that inspire you to act in certain ways that keep the magnet strong.

“A-ha,” you think, this principle does work.  “I can do this over and over and get what I want every time.”

Now comes a visit from Norton and Nellie Negative.  “This has to be a fluke, it’s just too easy”, you say, “it must be more difficult than this.” And just as you get rolling toward that goal and good things are happening, you start thinking “this can’t last, it’s just a flash in the pan, just temporary good luck.” You started out in harmony and now you’ve built resistance. Remembering that your expectation is the magnet drawing something to you, what do you think you are now attracting?  Resistance of course. This only means you don’t understand the principle yet, not that it doesn’t work.

So let’s make it more understandable.

You had more interest in how the principle would not work than in how it would work. That’s the magic word, interest. Energy flows where your interest goes. Think contrary thoughts and you get contrary results and you are drawn to contrariness. Just like people in the drug culture are drawn together, Olympic athletes are drawn together and young mothers are drawn together. They have the same interests.  Now you are seeing this principle in action. You can actually watch it unfolding.

Want to change your life using this principle? I did it over a year ago by turning off the TV and not turning it back on again. I don’t read nine-tenths of a newspaper and I listen to very little radio. Why? I don’t like my mind being manipulated with constant negativity. I’m not in harmony with it.  Since then I wrote, published and am marketing a book, decided to build my business, I study and am constantly learning, I know what I am interested in and now find myself surrounded with people of like mind and are ambitious entrepreneurs just like me! It’s the principle, plain and simple.

The more attention you give your emotionally charged interest, the less you give to other interests. That’s the second magic word, attention. You will find that as you pay more attention to your higher interests, which determine your goals, the less attention you pay to your lower interests (worry, judgment, fear) which disconnect your goal power. Your interested attention beefs up the power of the magnet drawing you and your goal closer together.

If you take interest plus attention they equal expectation, the third magic word. A baby at about the year-old stage becomes interested in walking. She pays close attention to what she can use to help her stand up such as furniture or mum and dad’s hands which help pull her up. Once standing she has the total expectation that she will walk. In fact this expectation is so strong that she will fall many times and even hurt herself in the attempts, but she will keep doing what it takes until she succeeds.

1. She had an interest
2. Paid attention  
3. Had unstoppable expectation.

When you employ the practices of Interest, Attention and Expectation you will be able to understand the Law of Attraction, yes the principle I am talking about is the Law of Attraction. Take this understanding and the examples you see all around you of the Law in action and set a goal for something you have a keen interest in. Now give it your attention every day.  This focus helps your magnetic power grow. Allow nothing to interfere with your expectation of fulfillment.  Remember, you learned to walk, the ability is in you!

Aligning yourself with these Universal Principles puts your life on a different level, one of ease and joy with so much less stress. Stay tuned for more Principles upcoming.

Keep on Goaling!

The ‘sequel’ to Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret” has finally arrived!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sbKVdHhz6U&NR=1

ENJOY!

The Buddhists say ‘The cause of most of our suffering is due to our attachments’

What does this mean?

It means that we are emotionally ‘attached’ to the outcomes we want with our things/relationships/beliefs in such a manner as we cannot even consider them being different from the way we want them. If something turns out in a way other than what we wanted, we become very upset.

I call this emotional attachment “scripting”. I’ll use the example of your birthday that is coming up in a couple of weeks.  You have emotion about your birthday, it is an important day for you, a day when you are recognized for being here and those who love you will celebrate with you. 

You begin thinking about the celebration, about how your spouse will organize a surprise party with your friends and family members. He will say he is taking you out for dinner and when you get to the restaurant he heads you toward the private dining room where all these people are waiting for you.  There are yells of surprise! Happy Birthday! And lots of hugs and a pile of gifts waiting to be opened.  You are certain that one of them is those delicious diamond stud earrings you have been mentioning to your husband and drooling over for the past couple of months. And the cake! Oh my, it is your very favorite chocolate double layer with fluffy butter cream icing! Oh, let’s not forget the bouquet of elegant white Calla Lilies placed at your setting.

Wow! What a fantastic birthday this is going to be!

The day arrives. Your husband has said he made reservations for dinner.  You start getting ready later in the day and your butterflies are flying in formation! At the restaurant you are taken to a table in a quiet corner. No pile of gifts, no Calla lilies, no guests.  Hmmm, something is not going according to plan. Ah, you bet that they are all gathering over at your house while you are out to dinner! You enjoy your dinner and skip dessert imagining your favorite cake waiting for you at home.

Arriving at home, the windows are dark and there are no cars parked out front. Of course, lights and cars in the drive would give away the surprise, so you play along. Hubby walks in the door first and turns on the lights. Nobody. They must be hiding. He says he has a special birthday gift for you and hands you a large box that is not too heavy.  Such a smart man, you think.  A small box would give it away!  As you tear off the wrapper and open the box you discover a new duvet for your king size bed.  What’s this?  You search among the folds for the box with the earrings, but nothing is there.  Hubby now says, with a look of great pride on his face, “I saw you looking at that duvet in the bed and bath store a couple of weeks ago and you remarked how much you liked it and that it will soon be time to update our bedroom.”

He waits for your shriek of delight, but instead is completely baffled by your crumpled face and tears spilling from your eyes. 

Well, I think you get the point, no need to carry on with that story.  Undoubtedly there are feelings of great disappointment, hurt feelings, confusion, dismay, and perhaps anger on both sides.  You had written a script, a script about what what other people were going to do!

You were very attached to the outcome of your envisioning. When it wasn’t forthcoming, you suffered all those feelings.

I remember so clearly when I was young and so in love, I had scripted getting an engagement ring for Christmas and when that didn’t happen Christmas was ruined for me that year. BTW he is not the man I have been married to for the paswt 42 years!

We can become attached in so many ways, not just events, but how a relationship will turn out, how owning a certain material thing will make you happy, etc.

So what do we do instead?  We certainly need to have plans and we need to have goals. If these involve other people you need to let them in on it! Discussion is mandatory.

I’ve learned that husbands almost always need to be told outright, “I really would just love to have those diamond earrings I saw at Tiffany’s last week.  I actually had them put away for you to go and pick up for my birthday, your name is on them, just ask for them. I also would be so happy if my birthday cake was a chocolate double layer with fluffy butter cream icing and wouldn’t it be great to invite some friends and family over to help celebrate? Here is a list of names and phone numbers”. And he is more than delighted to oblige!  People are not mind readers, husbands in particular (smile!!).

So now there is no attachment.  He will or he won’t. My bet is that he will.  Husbands really do like to do things that make their wives happy.

In any case he WILL do something for your birthday and you can always pick up those earrings the next day.

There’s another point to this article and that is to point out that when you hold an emotional vision for your goal and you dream with that huge smile on your face as you clearly see yourself victorious, realize that this is not scripting. Other people may be in your vision, but you are not the director of a play and telling them what to do and how to do it. Your goal vision is only about you because you only have the right and the power to direct you. 

Secondarily, you are not desperately ‘attached’ to your goal, you will never connect with it that way. You will only drive it away if you are desperate. Rather you are ‘accepting’ of your goal and the manner in which the great Laws of the Universe will bring it about. You have aligned the goal with your highest purpose, your values and these laws as well as listened to your intuition, therefore you are assured it is the right goal for you. You can let go of attachment, you can trust and simply be accepting.

This attaching or accepting practice is one that needs to be honed over time.  But if you want less suffering and more harmony it is well worth the practice.

Keep on Goaling!

©Lynn Moore 2010

 Ever have those times when you would like to take a vacation from yourself?  Just to be able to jump out of your head and your skin and take a rest?  We all know that’s not possible, but we can get little reprieves through laughter.  It really is the best medicine.  So this blog post hopefully gives you some giggles if not outright guffaws.  We can’t be in business mode all the time.  Go ahead, take a 5 minute vacation:

   1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push The snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

   2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.

   3. I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.

   4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
 
   5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

   6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
 
   7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I’m pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighbourhood.

   8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

   9. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
 
   10. Bad decisions make good stories.
 
   11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren’t going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

   12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection…again.

   13. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.

   14. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this - ever.

   15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voice mail. What did you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?

   16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste

   17. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

   18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
 
   19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.

   21. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.

   22. I would rather try to carry 10 over-loaded plastic bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

   23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.
 
   24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
 
   25. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear or understand a word they said?

   26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

   27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get  dirty, and you can wear them forever.

   28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year?

   29. There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

 31. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
 

If we can’t laugh at ourselves, we don’t have a sense of humor. 

Keep On Goaling!

by Lynn Moore from author unknown

How Often Do You Find Yourself Saying:
“I Wish I Knew How to Leave My Children A Legacy I Can Be Proud Of”?

What is a legacy? The English dictionary defines it as: “something that is handed down or remains from a previous generation or time”.

The most valuable legacies are not material, they are behavioural.Our children do not learn from our words. They are very intuitive and they instinctively know that the truth of a person is in their behaviour and not their words.

So, if you behave as a people pleaser, guess what the kids learn? They learn to be people pleasers too.

Okay, you say, what’s so wrong with being a People Pleaser? Shouldn’t we want to help make others happy? Shouldn’t we want other people to be pleased? Of course we want that, especially for our loved ones. However, there is a line many of us cross when we convert from merely helping others to sacrificing ourselves to the point of losing who we are.

That kind of people pleasing is a syndrome that arises from a need to please in order to feel that we have some kind of value, a pleading to be loved. Just exchange the ‘s’ in ‘pleasing’ for a ‘d’ and you have an even more accurate name for this behavior. Unfortunately this is a downward spiral and at the bottom we find ourselves being used, abused and receiving little to no respect from others.

In fact, people pleasing has nothing to do with you helping other people for the sake of helping other people! When their help comes from a source such as this it can actually be harmful to them because your intention is actually focused on you and not them. Whether you are conscious of it or not, what you are really doing is for yourself only.  It is like an addiction, in order for you to have any sense of esteem or worth it has to come from someone else because you have none to give to yourself.  You are wanting desperately to fill yourself up.

Truly helping someone has to come from a source of love of all mankind including yourself.  It comes from a source of gratitude for all you have, the good and the not so good, the desire to inspire someone, to uplift someone so that they can make their own changes and improve their life, not to take on their burden as your own as People Pleasers do. In many cases people pleasers actually force their help on others they can become so desperate.

Here are some symptoms:

1. You rarely receive a ‘thank you’ from those to whom you extend yourself
2. You can’t say ‘no’ to those who ask things of you and yet you can’t help also feeling some resentment toward them
3. You feel a need to always agree with the opinions of others and even if you disagreed, you would find it very difficult or impossible to voice it
4. You really don’t have much of an idea of why you are here
5. You have no personal goals or you have set some yet never achieved them
6. You are constantly fearful
7. You find that you are depressed or angry much of the time
8. You are craving validation from others, yet don’t receive it
9. You are enabling the destructive behaviour of a friend or family member and can’t stop yourself
10.  You set aside little or no time for yourself
11. . Because you have no control over your life, you feel a need to control everything around you, but of course, cannot.
12. . You have no boundaries

These are just a few clues to suffering from People Pleasing Syndrome.

If you discover that you relate to 4 or more of these symptoms it indicates that you have People Pleasing Syndrome tendencies to one degree or another. Is this the kind of legacy you want to leave your children?

If not, you can explore through this website and find ways in which you can begin to change this behaviour and:

1. finally receive the respect, self-love and feelings of accomplishment you have always wanted
2. replace feelings of anger and resentment with contentment, confidence setand purpose
3. learn that ‘no’ is a complete sentence and you can say it without apology
4. you no longer feel you need others to complete you
5. you fall in love with yourself
6. you are finally free to learn how to set and accomplish inspired goals!

As a former People Pleaser, I wish this for you, I want this for you.  All you need to do is reach out.

Go to these links for more information:

5 Steps to Banishing People Pleasing Syndrome

6 Part Confidence eCourse

Keep on Goaling!

(c)Lynn Moore 2010

“Mystery is only another name for ignorance; all things are mysteries when they are not understood, but when we understand life, it no longer appears mysterious”

~ Raymond Holliwell 1964

The brilliant author of the above quote wrote a dynamic book in the early 1960’s titled “Working with the Law”.  I have had it in my possession since the early 1980’s when I was introduced to it. 

After devouring the book with highlighter in hand, I knew I had found the solution to so many mysteries. Having chosen spirituality over religion I knew I had found my ‘bible’, so to speak. I now had that faith in an invisible, intangible, omnipotent force some call God, Higher Power, All Knowing, Higher Consciousness, Divine Source, etc. and in my world became “Universal Law”.  In fact, some just exchange the word ‘Law’ for ‘God’ and are quite comfortable with that.

So, as they say, whatever floats your boat.  The fact remains; there are incredible powers available to all of us to ‘have everything you want every time’ (remember that phrase because soon it is going to be popping up all over the place!). What is even more interesting is that these powers are in action whether you know it, or believe it or not.

You’ll want to learn about your powers unless you want to be used by them.  It’s like being conscious or oblivious. You may not believe you can get a sunburn, after all you can’t see the UVB rays, but you will get one if you ignore this law of nature. You cannot see Universal Laws, but if you don’t align yourself with them you will not have what you want.  It’s as plain and simple as that. You can’t have thoughts of poverty, loneliness, failure, and fear and expect to enjoy a life of riches, love, success and mental peace. It just cannot happen.

The great thing is that these powers are all in your control.  All you have to do is take ownership of them, learn about them and use them. See? Simple. You decide what you want, take the helm, navigate the laws while remaining within the guidelines and voila! You’ve got it.

The vast majority of people don’t set goals because, deep down, they don’t believe they have control over their lives. Like attracts like and they become surrounded with other like minded people. The multi-person belief feeds the flames of contagion and before long they all become defeated in life and although they complain, they are actually in a comfort zone.  It isn’t really that comfortable but it’s more comfortable (less scary) than having to step out and take charge of their life. And stepping out requires a shift that would take the power of dynamite. But it has been done.

Now if you were compelled to read this, you are not in the situation just described. You may unknowingly be in sync with some of the Universal Laws quite naturally and having some successes in life, but there is still a searching going on; a restlessness and a feeling that there is something more. You haven’t reached that stage of lasting ebullience, inner peace and insulation against the ills of the world that tend to drag us down.  You want more.  All you have to do is work with the Law. 

Another name for the omnipotent energy is ‘Creator’.  All of humanity has the urge and ability to create, it was given to us. We are meant to create better lives for ourselves first and then to help create better lives for others.  This is what inspired goal setting is all about.  First you get your own life in order by deciding how you want it to be, work with the Law to get it there and then you get the privilege to help others attain their desired life. This is your reward.  There is no feeling equal to the one you receive when you are sincerely thanked by a person whom you have helped to solve a problem, gain a new perspective, reduce their stress, heal, gain new knowledge, etc. But first you have to do it for yourself.

I said it was simple, I didn’t say it was easy.  We put value in expensive things because we think they are unattainable, and in reaching mountain tops because the climb is difficult, we value a doctorate degree because the road has been long and hard.  It’s the same in working with the Law because although the concept is simple, there is a lot of learning to do and experiences to have and effort to expend. When you take this on you become a life long student.

And it is all so worth it!

OK, so the stage has been set. The blog post prior to this one told you about one of the Laws, the Law of Thinking.  There are ten more according to Raymond Holliwell and I will be writing about them here.  Remember that your life does not come at you, it comes from you and the fact that you are in the driver’s seat can be good news or bad news depending on how you look at it. The Laws of the Universe allow us to have anything we desire within the bounds of nature, in fact it’s already here; all you have to do is make the connection. The Laws of the Universe are the rungs in the ladder.

Keep on Goaling!

©Lynn Moore 2010

What do you think?

I mean that literally.

What do you think…..about?

This can actually be a difficult question for some of us.  We might answer with things like, what I read in the paper this morning, what to make for supper tonight, how the weather was too hot, I liked the color of the flowers, etc.  If I told you this wasn’t actually thinking, what would you think? 

I know, this sounds a little obtuse at the moment, but stick with me, it’s profound.

Thoughts are pure energy. Energy can be positive or negative, expansive or contractive, it never dies and it always attracts like energy.

Dr. Ken McFarland said, and my long ago mentor Val Van deWall always repeated, “Two percent of the people think, three percent think they think and 95% would rather die than think.”  Just because your mind is busy doesn’t mean you are thinking. Your mind can be busy as a whirling Dervish and yet, like the Dervish, you can remain stuck in one spot.

If you want to know how you are thinking just look around you at your results.  Are your results in life what you want; how about your relationships, your home and your job etc. How are they looking? They are an expression of your thinking.

You may say you want to start your own business and grow it to be successful in every way, but your thoughts from that point on are in a downward motion instead of the direction you want. What we want should turn into beautiful pictures (our minds think in pictures) and the visions then turn into theory and then real thinking begins.

I love the following sayings: “When you believe it you will see it” and “The more you change the way you look at things, the more what we look at changes.”  We don’t have to think the way we have been taught, we can think from our whole being, not just our intellect. We don’t have to think from just our five senses, we can think from the heart and from the spirit.  We can choose!  So few people do, they just follow along and wonder why they have lives of littleness.

Our thoughts are seeds; once planted they grow.  Are you producing weeds or succulent fruit? Both are the same energy and what we focus on expands.  When making changes in your thinking patterns you don’t have to struggle to get rid of the negative, you simply just build up the positive and gradually it will take over and the negative fades away. No struggle necessary. Just two sides of one coin.  When you are cold you don’t argue with the cold, you turn on the heat and the cold disappears. 

Unorganized, random thinking brings you frustrations and failures, they feast on indecision.  Instead of being scattered, bring order to your mind and then think only thoughts that are traveling in the same direction. Plan your days full of activities that move you consistently toward your goal and wasteful thoughts don’t have a chance.

BE before you DO. Decide each day what you want to be; calm, energetic, focused, diligent, joyful, giving, etc. It is not what is outside of you that determines how you will be, it comes from inside you. You choose.

You have inside you a power so huge it is almost impossible to imagine it; and so few actually use it.  It is the power to think, a power that travels 930,000 times faster than sound and is instantaneous and inexhaustible.  It is a Law of the Universe and is called THE LAW OF THINKING.

When it comes to you reaching inspired goals, you must be aligned with the Law of Thinking.

Keep on Goaling!

©Lynn Moore 2010

Some of you have seen me write or heard me say my philosophy of living life.  It is To Create Value in All things.

Our affluent lifestyles in the Western World tend to produce a lot of waste, just look at how much garbage is hauled to landfills and then sometimes hauled by barge out to sea to be dumped. And then imagine how much more there would be if human ingenuity had not discovered how to recycle and reuse.

I love how some of the ‘old’ ways are returning such as the resurgence in home canning of food and the use of cloth shopping bags.  If I forget to take mine with me to the grocery store and I have to say ‘yes’ when the person on checkout asks me if I need bags, I look and feel guilty even if I do reuse the bags to dispose of used kitty litter!

So, you ask, what has this got to do with your goals?  It has to do with the difference between inspired goals and uninspired goals. For one thing, inspired goals are the right goals for you and you know it in your heart. Inspired goals make your heart sing. These are not ‘should’ goals or ‘I need’ goals or ‘I’ll try’ goals. You can be assured that if your goal brings you joy, wealth, conveniences, luxuries, contentment, peace etc. via a route through touching the hearts and lives of others, it is indeed an inspired goal, not the ‘old’ type of goal wherein we strived to accumulate for ourselves only (ego centered goals).  In this case recycling and reusing tired, old goals is a definite waste.

When you set out to reach inspired goals and you hit a pothole, have to turn back, take a detour or start over, what you are doing is not a waste.  It is not a waste of money, time or effort or anything else. It is an investment and you are creating compounding interest!

So often we look at not going straight to our goal, such as repeating a course, not getting the degree, having a business fail, not passing that driver’s road test first time (I got so nervous I had to do it 3 times!), etc. as a waste of our time, money and effort.  Uh-uh, it’s an investment in your knowledge, the kind of knowledge not taught in any school, collage or university.

Let’s say these potholes had value (they do, you know). Repeating the course taught you things you needed to know that you didn’t get the first time, perhaps not getting that degree is a way the Universe shows you it was not the career you were meant to have, there is a better one that expresses your purpose and therefore will love doing. The failed business teaches you what not to do next time, and learning to drive a vehicle correctly and safe is much more worthy of your time than putting your life and the lives of others at risk. There is always a value in everything if you just look for it. It takes practice and lots of honesty, but the result is a much more joyful you.

It’s much like being offered a choice of a million dollars or a penny which will double in value everyday for a month. Which would you take? Take the penny! At the end of 30 days the million dollars is still worth a millions dollars, but the value of the penny doubling for 30 days comes to over three million! I’m no mathematician, and you can figure it out, but it is at least that. This is the value of investment.

Recycling and reusing goals that don’t make your heart sing is a waste. Invest in Inspired Goals, and nothing you do on your way to achieving them will end up in the waste-of-life-landfill no matter how many potholes you have to fill along the way.

Inspired (in-spirit) goals are your investment in your life. The more potholes, the more interest accumulating (ie: wisdom).  The interest will compound just like the penny and bring you and others you touch such abundance you can’t find words to express it.

Keep on Goaling!

Lynn

©Lynn Moore 2010

You know the phrase, “how can you live with yourself”? 

This is most often said by someone who is in their judgment and means to instill guilt upon you.  But that’s not the subject for this article.  What I want to do is remove one word from that sentence, change it from a question to a statement and have you take a peek at:

“How you live with yourself”.  Just one word makes such a difference.

There is no escaping it; you live with yourself from first to final breath.  You are your closest relationship. 

I was recently made aware (during a session with a coach) of the fact that there is a very important part of me that was desperately desiring to slow dance, to internally hum in harmony with rainbows, moon rises, opening rosebuds and trickling streams.  However, the rest of me was doing the can-can, racing up ladders, playing tag with myself and in an unending game of hide and seek.

Whew! Talk about conflicting values. And I even had these values written down and still did not see it! That’s why coaches have a coach. We can be so blind when it comes to seeing in ourselves what is obvious to us in our clients.

Then my coach suggested I needed to ‘integrate’ these parts of myself.  Up to this point our session was dealing with me and my business, however she instinctively knew that my conflict didn’t have much to do with my business and within the time it took her to ask me one short question everything flipped and the true conflict was revealed.

Our minds are heavily weighted on the sub-conscious side with over 80% of it under the conscious level and when something pops up through the fog into the clarity of consciousness that is when miracles can happen for you.

Then you have intimacy: in-to-me-see, and can have a close personal relationship with yourself. 

Now you can integrate: in-to-grace, those parts of yourself that divide you and cause conflict.   Sounds Heavenly, doesn’t it? Intimacy and integration; into me see and into grace.

How do you live with yourself?  How do you treat your best friend – you?  Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually; what might be lurking just below the consciousness radar?

You’re undoubtedly aware of the ways and means to have a healthy body, how to educate your mind, what emotions you feel and how you are spiritually minded on a conscious level. Then there is the subconscious level which is always giving you clues.  Let’s look at some possibilities:

• When you are shopping for food or choosing from a menu, what foods do you instinctively gravitate toward?  Proteins, carbohydrates, fats?  Have you ever asked yourself ‘why’?

• Look at your surroundings.  What state are your living conditions in?  Clean, messy, dusty, neat, cluttered, dark, light?  How does your environment make you feel? Secure, uncomfortable, welcome, lost?

• Look at a map of the world.  Where do you live? What kind of weather does it have? Ever wondered why you live there, I mean really live there, not the answer you would give to other people? 

• You read a book, watch a TV program, see a movie.  Can you identify the emotions it triggered? All the emotions, not just one.  Where did these emotions come from?  Have you ever asked yourself this?

• When someone says ‘spirit’ or ‘God’ or ‘religion’ how do you react?  What are your facial expressions, body language, mental images?  Are you even aware of them? 

So much of our living is done on autopilot.  Our minds are like gerbils racing on their wheel.  It’s either focused on worrying or dreaming in the future or stuck in the past certainly nowhere near the present moment. At times we find the coffee cup full of coffee sitting in the fridge when we intended to put it in the microwave to heat it. We put the clothes in the dryer and didn’t turn it on. We swear we did something when the physical proof we didn’t is right in front of our disbelieving eyes.

So who are you living with? If you really want to know who your ‘best friend’ and constant companion is, not your roles, not your characteristics or personality, all you really have to do is develop a new awareness, one that is in the present moment. Your sub-conscious constantly leaks clues, even in dreams which are usually symbolism, but by simply asking yourself some different kinds of questions, you can reveal astounding stuff.  Just like my coach did with me. Your answers may not ‘pop’ immediately, but they have gone out to the Universe and the Universe always answers, just be aware and listen.

If we want the people in our other relationships to understand us, to know us, respect us, communicate with us, love us, first we have to have all these things with ourselves. Every relationship begins with the one you have with you.  Get to know you, you’re great!

Goal suggestion: “I am getting to know me more and more every day.”

Keep on Goaling!

© Lynn Moore