We all know that setting goals is very important when it comes to achieving great things. You want to have written down exactly what it is you intend on achieving. This practice of writing your goals down works for more than just business plans. It works for goals like losing weight, saving a particular amount of money, and even relationships.
But why do we need to write out our goals? We all have brains, can’t we just think of our goal and go after it?
Sure you can do whatever you want to do. The question is why wouldn’t you want to take the time to write down your goals, especially since they are important to you. Writing down your goals shows that you are actually serious about taking action on making your goals a reality. To see written on paper I will drop x amount of weight by x date, or I will generate 10,000 dollars a month in income by x date hits our subconscious minds a bit different.
Writing out what you are thinking makes it more real to subconscious mind. We tend to not take all our thoughts (selves) seriously, because we have a bunch of thoughts run through our minds daily. What we don’t do is write down those miscellaneous thoughts do we? Of course we don’t.
Writing down our goals allows us to flesh them out on paper first, so that we can see what we plan to give life to, before we put all of our efforts into it. There’s a plot twist to all of this goal setting stuff guys, that I think is so very valuable, especially if you intend on achieving something BIG…
<strong> Plan For Obstacles</strong>Wait a whole minute that’s negative thinking, right? No that’s reality thinking. It’s spiritually thinking in fact. I am all for positivity, but I’m more in favor of reality based spirituality that gets results. Sticking your head in the positivity sand wont get you very far in the game of life.
Positivity doesn’t stop bad things from happening. Positivity doesn’t stop negativity from showing up either. It allows us the grace to dance with the negatives. It allows us to give a more impactful meaning to our unwanted experiences. At its core positive thinking is a system of thought that teaches us to seek out better meanings to the Why’s of life. I didn’t say avoid negative situations, because we can’t anyway. All we have control over is how we choose to view and handle the negatives that will inevitably show up. For us Supernaturally Fit folk, we know that all things ( negatives included) work together for our good.
<strong>"We have goals because they are worthwhile, not because they are easy" - Bryan Cohen</strong>The pros like Destiny’s Child prepare for what can go wrong, and how to successfully overcome it if and when it comes up. You have seen Beyonce and other stars have slip ups on stage, and yet they soldier on as if nothing happened. They can roll like that because they train for obstacles. Average people just make plans and expect everything to go according to plan. When things don’t go according to plan, they think something is wrong and lose momentum or even quit. You are not average, you are Supernaturally Fit and you train for trouble so that you win no matter what happens.
I get it… life has been tough. If ain’t one thing it’s another. The pressure to keep up, the pressure to exist, the pressure to transform can all seem overwhelming. Work is draining, kids are draining, family, traffic, and not to mention this new goal ain’t easy either. We all want somewhere we can just chill and have a moment to just BE. The idea of planning for another hard time is difficult to do.
This is what I need you to know. There is something in you that’s calling you to step up a little bit higher. That something won’t leave you or forsake you. That something will send the people, the stamina, the money, the whatever. You and I have to be willing to prove that we really want this new reality that is our goal.
The struggles involved in achieving your goals are literally molding you into someone that you won’t even recognize a year from now. These obstacles are not just tests, but they are dress rehearsals that you must attend to get the part you know you deserve in the movie of your life.
So let’s plan for some obstacles. We know that they are coming. The difference is now we don’t have to only deal with them in our minds alone. We are using the power of paper and pen to write out our obstacles. What this does is helps us live in a state of conscious awareness.
Do you remember when you fell off your diet for the umptenth time. You were doing good on your diet for a few days. Then you have one of those morning where everything is out of wack. You rush out of the house without your food being prepped. Traffic is irritating, you don’t half way want to be at work, and because you are irritated that Snickers bar is looking might lovely. You succumb to your emotions and get that Snickers bar. You think to yourself it’s little so it won’t matter too much. Then your inner perfectionist shows up and tells you that you might as well go and eat lunch with your coworkers, because you already slightly messed up. Who can relate? What happened to you is very common. It wasn’t the devil either lol!! You fell back into your old pattern because you were emotionally charged. This is why we plan for these moments, and we also plan how we think and act when in them in advance.
