I've often wondered about the animal kindgom and how their goals are instinctively written in some little centre of their neural system, somewhere in a centre of their brain....or are they?
What makes a Robin work again and again at re-building a nest, in the exact same place someone has just taken it down? What is telling the Robin that this is THE place for this year's nest?
Does a Robin go through a goal writing period when it arrives back in the late winter/early spring and once it finds a perfect place to build a nest, inscribe that goal somewhere in indelible ink in it's brain cells?
A Robin won't give up. Eventually the human gives up and lets the Robin build there, at least that's what I've seen take place. Again and again, through repeated attempts and failures, the Robin tries and tries, until at last, success!
Singular focus is an element of survival and instinctive in most animals. It is part of the subconscious mind, similar to the way habits become hardwired into our brain.
I've written extensively about the subconscious mind and how you can use it to assist you toward achieving your goals, however there is a step that needs to be taken before the subconscious
mind can go to work. That step entails telling the subconscious mind what to go to work on. From there it all falls into place as the goals take on a life of their own, similar to the Robin's nest building.
- Have you laid out your goals for this year yet?
- Have you written a business plan?
- What about a life plan?
All of these are extremely important if you want to attain certain things in life and in business. A business plan, similar to a life plan, must have a guiding mission or essence.
What is the guiding mission of your business? Have you thought about it?
Have you set down specific numbers in relation to the number of transactions you wish to achieve for this year and why?
Without a 'why', your goals will fail. Everything needs a purpose or an inspiration to keep it running.
The Robin's instinct for procreation keeps it building the nest over and over. It doesn't essentially know why, it just knows it has to.
Kahlil Gibran would call this 'Life's longing for itself." Therein lays the answer.
Life longs for itself. Life longs to create itself and desires beauty and harmony and this unstoppable desire goes on, with you, or without you.
Life wishes for you to take part in the dance of creation and the fulfillment of the desire it has for itself, and it whispers to you the part you're to take by giving you dreams and desires.
What are your dreams and desires? Lay out your dreams and desires and you will have the initial building blocks of your plans, both in business and in your life.
Without defining your desires and dreams, your subconscious mind does not know where you wish to go, or what it's role is.
Take out a pen and paper, a PHYSICAL pen and paper, and
find a quiet place, right now.
Let your mind drift and let it hear all the whispers that the universe is calling out to it.....these are your dreams, these are your desires.
- If you could be living the perfect life for you right now, what would it look like?
- Are you living in the city in a highrise condominium overlooking the ocean, or are you living in a small but efficient forest house overlooking a beautiful lake or the mountains?
- Who is with you?
- Are you alone or do you have a partner and does that partner have a face, or is it someone you haven't met yet?
- What are you doing for an income?
- What would you LIKE to be doing for an income?
These questions are just the beginning of defining your dreams and desires for your life plan.
Similarly, when planning your business, how do you picture your business looking?
Do you desire to be the number one agent/mortgage broker/whatever in your area or do you prefer to be comfortable with a slower paced business volume?
Think very clearly on these questions and listen to what the universe tells you for these are the answers that make up the blueprint of your life and business.
This is the blueprint you're supposed to define and follow towards happiness, the one and only reason for your life here on earth.
Life longs for itself and it longs for itself to be happy. You are life, and the path to happiness is easily achievable once you set out the dreams and desires that life has for you.
From there you can take those dreams and desires and begin to break them down into achievable goals and subsequently, a plan.
The more you write down, the more you will sense your subconscious mind gathering up it's tools and setting itself to work. Your subconscious mind is made to be put to work, it longs to be put to work and it's up to you to give it a job to do.
©2008JoSmith
constant state of discovery and re-invention, don't you? My life is forever unfolding and I don't worry over it anymore....in fact, I enjoy the ride.
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