As we transition from one year to the next, there’s often pressure to make resolutions about what will be achieved next year. The problem is there are often a lot of ‘goals’ that were set that are yet to be achieved. When we take an honest look here, this can feel like a ‘failed’ year.
Rather than ‘beat yourself up’ about unmet goals, I offer you a different way to view things. This is not just theory, this is from experience. I’ve not only seen this work in the lives of our business clients, I’ve been working with these approaches in my own life for a very long time.
Rather than goals, here are 3 new approaches to try to accomplish greatness in your business and life. You can apply them now, and they take the pressure away. If they resonate with you and work for you, please tweet me. I’d love to hear from you. @tanyalacy
1. INTENTION
Rather than goals, consider that words are powerful. This means that when you speak a word out loud, you are also intending this to happen. Be not flippant with this. The words you use need to represent a high desire level from deep inside you.
These words are inner world thoughts, spoken in the outer world. They are expressed inner words you’ve kept inside your mind and heart. Once these are released they are spoken and do have power. To illustrate, you wake up this morning and think, I’d like a cup of coffee. Then you say out loud, I’d like a cup of coffee. Next thing, you are having a cup of coffee. Either you make it, someone else makes it for you, or you take yourself to a cafe and have a cup of coffee.
While this is a simple example on a small scale, our life is made up of moments, and expressed desires that come from intention. So notice your intentions. Honour the intentions that you desire most. This is all part of crafting the life you desire. This capability is not something restricted to only affluent people, however please note that affluent people know these principles and use them daily.
2. EXPERIENCES
Have you ever created a vision board or a vision poster? Have you ever stopped and taken the time to create a vision board where you cut out images that draw you to them? Images of experiences you wish to have? Experiences you desire highly. If so, once you’ve cut them out, have you assembled them in a way that represents the most prized experiences you want to have in your life?
The thing with visioning experiences is that it is not time specific. It is more ‘experience’ specific. That is, it is an experience you know you want to have in your life. An experience is either short term (one off) or long term experience.
Either way, you will know. So match the imagery of the experience you wish to have with a picture you select. It can be from a magazine, or an article, something you Google or see. Cut it out, glue it on a poster. Ensure that the pictures you cut out represent something you really want. They must be a high desire level. Ensure that these images are as close to 10/10 as possible for you.
3. DITCH TIMELINES
Timelines can create a lot of pressure. Do you agree? I understand that specific dates and times are a necessary evil in the workplace, however when it comes to your life, give yourself a little more latitude or wiggle room. A way to do this is to have clarity on what experiences you want to have in your life. For instance, what places you wish to visit and what you want to have around you. Then you tune into the ‘feeling’ of what this is like. The ‘feeling’ of the experience has a lot of power. So imagine what it will feel like to accomplish the task, complete the project or be at a point where you can say it’s complete.
Broaden the timeline to a week or a month rather than a specific day and time. This takes the pressure off, and is in much more allowance. It is more spacious and gives you more latitude to ebb and flow with events as they unfold closer to the accomplishment of your outcome.
If you want to tick the box on particular things in your life, then this approach relies less on the sequence of when they happen, and more on the fact that they will happen. The sequence or order of this being accomplished has everything to do with the intensity of your desire level, and less to do with the time. Intensity has feeling with it. Feeling has vibration and resonance with it. Vibration and feeling are magnetic. There is a lot more to this, however the high level of desire and giving yourself a sense of space is much more efficient. In essence my message here is space + (desire) rather than time. These will help you accomplish greatness.
