Going for Your Goals: Our Purpose

Today we're going to explore our purpose. Each of us has a purpose whether we are aware of it or not. In Brian Tracy's book Goals: How to Get Everything You Want he describes a definite purpose as the one goal out of however many we may have that is most important to us.

A definite purpose helps us focus during all of our waking moments which leads to actions that help us reach our purpose. Law of Attraction comes into play when we start thinking clearly about our purpose. We start to attract people, ideas, opportunities, resources and finances needed to help us reach our purpose. Any definite thoughts and purpose we have in our conscious mind will activate our sub-conscious mind.

Each of has a small, finger like part of the brain called "reticular cortex" that acts kind of like a cell phone tower for a large area; it divvy's out the signals to all those parts of the area that its needed. So when we send clear messages about our purpose it gets carried out to all areas of the brain for processing and allows us to be more alert to opportunities, people, and information that will help us achieve our goals.

Here's an example:

Let's say we decide we want a hot cherry red sports car (with navigation, blue tooth, and awesome stereo of course). Soon we start to see our hot cherry red sports car all over; on highways, parking lots, etc. We take notice of it because we have selected that as our purpose and its now on our radar. If we wanted a boat, motorcycle, etc. we would see the same thing. Any goal messages we send to our reticular cortex makes us more alert to all possibilities that will help us reach our goals.

When we are unclear about our goals we can feel as though we're in a fog and just kind of going through life. We miss many opportunities because we're unaware of them and can't see them. So basically negative talk leads to negative actions, positive talk leads to positive actions.

Our definite goal must have the following:

1.  Goal must be something we personally want
2. Goal must be clear and specific
3. Goal must be measurable
4. Goal must be achievable
5. Goal must have a reasonable chance of success
6. Goal must be in harmony with our other goals

Take a look at the goals you've written down so far and see if there is one that sticks out as your main goal. Then check to see if it has the above components. If not you may need to adjust your goals. No goal is wrong, we may just need to tweak it to be more clear about it.