The Power Of Written Goals

The word 'Achieve' is

magnetic. It has a glimmer.
'Achievers' are looked upon as
a notch higher than others.
Everyone has different goals
and definitions for achievement. Nevertheless the
fact is - Everybody wants to
achieve and be an achiever.

From a kindergarten boy to a
Jet fighter pilot, everyone has this drive. Hence it can be
metrically said that the desire to achieve and reach goals is in our blood, genes and our mind.

For us to achieve, be it
personal, social, professional or
material, we need to
understand the working of
one thing which contributes
substantially to it; we ourselves (our mind). Since
achievement means so much
to us, we must employ the
proper modus operandi to aid
us to reach such milestones in
our pursuit.

Benjamin Disraeli said it so
wonderfully, "Nurture you
mind with great thoughts, for
you will never go any higher
than you think". Such is the
importance of keeping our focus right in terms of our
thoughts and thus making
every second in our day, a
motivating moment.

The human brain receives
millions of thoughts to process
in a day ranging from
household work, child care to
finances etc, not to forget the
various kinds of emotions in between. How then can we
impress our minds with the
positive thoughts and remind
ourselves about our goals and
ambitions amidst all these
other impulses?

Many of us have experienced,
while flipping through
newspapers or magazines, a
word or two suddenly
jumping out at us from the
thousands of words printed. We start reading that
particular paragraph or article
and find that in almost all of
the cases, it is something
which we are interested in or
looking for. Our mind knows what we like and desire.
Hence, it processes the words
in the news article fast and
gives us the needed words, if
present. Here is an important
lesson to remember. Our mind can process words faster and
better than we think it does.

"Yuo aer raednig a wnodefrul aticrle, tihs si a ncie thing, Gdo bsels yuo".

Now, how many of you read
the above statement as, "You
are reading a wonderful
article, this is a nice thing, God
bless you." It has been shown
that as we start reading the line, our mind starts processing
the words for the actual
meaning intended. Does that
say anything about your
mind? Yes, our minds are
amazing!!! Our minds can read words even when they are
scrambled. That is the power
of our mind.

How many of us realize the
importance of writing down
our goals that we want to
achieve? Behavioral
psychologists say that to
remind our goals with pictures, words or sounds is
indispensable for reaching our
goals faster. And one of the
ways is to write them down.
Examples: buying a car, a
house, a guitar, a handy cam or charting a career or planning a
tour etc... whatever it may be.
It is also vital to write down
the duration within which we
want it done and place them in
strategic areas in our environment (home or office
etc). Remember, many of us
do have the practice of
keeping sticky notes to
remind us of our tasks.

When we start to write down
our goals, we need to do it in a
clear and crisp language with
details. For example: if one
wants to buy a sedan then
write down the brand, color, expected mileage, year of
make, etc., then stick it on to a
place where we will often
look. The same can be
followed for any other sort of
goal.

Suppose one of us wants to
keep calm. You can write - 'I
am becoming calm and poised'.
Even though we might not
notice ourselves reading it, our
subconscious mind reads it as soon as the words register in
our eyes. Then our
subconscious mind, with its
immense source of power
starts to work, motivate us,
help us seek and achieve our positive creative goal and to
materialize it.

To help us focus, we need to
write what we want to
achieve on a piece of paper and
stick it at various places where
we spend our various
moments of the day like on the shaving mirror, dressing
table, bathroom wall, car
windshield, under the table
glass of your office desk,
computer screen, wallet etc.

What these words essentially
do is keep priming our mind,
especially our subconscious
mind, with the goals and
ambitions in order to spur
ourselves into action. Hence, without our knowledge, these
words are read tens and
hundreds and thousands of
times in a day thus driving
them deeper into our mind
every time. And our mind prospectively goes on to reach
these goals.

Anyone who has done this
sincerely or is willing to do
this, will see for himself/­
herself the amazing effect of
keeping written goals. Hence it
is important to flood our thoughts with our goals and
remind ourselves of the same.
Let us all start each day with
new vigour and resolve to
reach our goals. Let us remind
ourselves of what the Bible (Proverbs 23:7) says, "As a
man thinks about himself, so
he becomes."

--- Copyright © 2009 Sam Vijay Kumar