Your goal setting checklist!

Learning how to set goals – real goal setting that produces rapid results – isn’t difficult, it only seems that way – mostly because it is so easy to confuse ‘setting your goals’ with ‘achieving your goals’.

It is easy to confuse the action with the result.

Achieving your goal is a result, a result of all the actions you took that moved you in the direction of that goal. Sometimes it only takes a few actions to reach a goal, other times it takes many actions – sometimes repeated over and over – to achieve your goal.

But no matter how big your goal is or how many actions it will take to reach it, the very first action that you have to take is to SET A GOAL.

Setting your goal is an action. It is the most important action because if you mess up here, you will probably struggle to reach your goals.

In order to improve your life, in order to manifest or create those things that you want, you have to set strong, powerful goals. Nothing in your life will change until you decide to change it by setting goals and then taking action to reach those goals.

Here is a goal setting checklist to help you get the most out of your effort:

1. Know what you want.

Do you know what you want? Are you sure?

The more you know about your goal or dream, the more details and the more specific you are about it, the better your chances are of actually getting what you want. You wouldn’t walk into the supermarket and let some stranger fill your shopping cart with random items, would you? No, you pick and choose those things that you want. Your life is the same way. You have to pick and choose exactly what you want.

2. Commit to reaching your goal.

Are you committed to reaching your goal?

When you are fully committed to creating a change in your life, you tap into great reservoirs of strength that lie hidden within you, just waiting for you to use.  You find yourself willing to go the extra step, to do more, to risk more, to grow more. But this only happens if you commit yourself.   Don’t set goals that you are not committed to achieving. You will only waste your time and energy and find yourself frustrated and stuck.

3. Be willing to take action every day.

Are you willing to take real action every day?

Action is the engine that powers the creation process. The more specific actions that you take towards your goal, the faster you will get there. Reaching a goal is a journey, each step carries you closer and closer to your desired result. The more actions you take and the more often that you take them, the faster and easier it becomes to reach your goal. If you only work on your goals on the weekends, or only when you feel like it, or only when the sun is shining, it will take you infinitely longer to see your goals realized. Taking action every day though, will build momentum, which will increase your effectiveness and allow you to get the rapid results that you want.

How are you doing on your goals?

Are you clear on what you want? Are you committed to achieving your goals? Are you willing to take action every day?

Great! Then you are on your way to becoming a master goal setter. As you get better at setting goals, you will get better at achieving goals and the better you will be able to create the life and the lifestyle that you truly desire.

How to understand the law of attraction.

Understanding the Law of Attraction

The law of attraction is a powerful concept that can help you radically change your life, but learning how to apply it and actually attract your desires can be challenging.

There is a lot of conflicting advice out there, some of which can be downright misleading.  Here is an easy way to get exactly what you want in life by applying this universal law.

The law of attraction is about two things: Your perspective and your objective.

Your Perspective
Your perspective is the way that you look at the world around you, it is about your experience. But here is a funny thing about your perspective – it can change. More importantly, YOU can change it to suit your needs. You see, no two people have the same experience, even if they walk side by side down a street. One person may notice one thing and the other may notice something entirely different.

What you see depends upon many things – your mood, your interests, what has been going on around you and in your life recently, even the opinions of your friends and family… lots of things affect the way you look at the world.

One of the basic building blocks of the law of attraction is that you must change your perspective, you must change the way that you look at the world, so that what you see matches what you want. This isn’t as hard as it sounds. What it means is that you have to stop looking at all the things standing between where you are now and where you want to be, and start looking at the opportunities

The key thing to remember here is that your perspective is flexible and can change.

Your Objective
Your objective is the thing that you want, or your desires. You have to be really, really specific about what you want in order to get the results that will bring you there.  If you have fuzzy goals, you will get fuzzy results. You also have to be clear about the reasons ‘why’ you want to achieve each particular goal on your list.

Be sure that you want your goals for yourself and not to please someone else. Your true attraction power or manifesting ability lies in your passion to change your life. The more passionate you are, the better. Nothing dilutes your ability to attract things into your life more than going after a goal that you don’t really want.

Getting What You Want
Master these two things, your perspective and your objective, and your life will change. If you are clear about them, you will begin to understand the law of attraction and how it will help you get exactly what you want in your life.

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The law of attraction is a two-way street!

You don’t have to look far to see a perfect example of how the law of attraction works – all you need to do is to take a look around your life right now!

When you do, you will see exactly what you have been manifesting up to this point. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

If you are anything like I was, you are quick to take the credit for manifesting the ‘good’ stuff in your life, and you are probably just as quick to avoid taking responsibility for those parts of your life that you don’t like.

This is a deadly trap, and one that snares a lot of people who begin applying the law of attraction in their lives. The truth is that the law of attraction is a two-way street. You create everything in your life by placing and holding your attention upon it. When you get good results you are happy and accept the fact that you created this result. But when you get results that are less than good, or less than you expected, you are unhappy, and you allow your ego to step in and take control for a moment. You tell yourself, “This couldn’t be because of something I did, it must be the fault of ______.” And you blame something outside of yourself.

Now, it is true that sometimes things happen out there in the world that seem beyond your control, but even when that is the case, it is your reaction to that event that either allows you to grow or to remain stuck. In either case you attract what you focus on.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the law of attraction is only about getting good results. It is not. It is only about getting results. Period.

In the town called DESIRE, YOU determine the results you get by deciding which side of the law of attraction street you want to walk down. You can choose one side and walk toward all those things you want to create and manifest in your life… or you can walk down the other side and stay focused on your problems and keep blaming the world for your hardships… and keep manifesting more of the same.

Me? I will be on the side heading toward my dreams, only I won’t be walking, I’ll be running!

Which side of the law of attraction street will you choose?

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Are you ready to apply the law of attraction?

Want to know the secret of the law of attraction?

Of course you do! We all love secrets. We love the mystery, we love the thrill of having information that not everyone else has. It makes us feel special. It makes us feel like we are tapped into a special group of people who are somehow different… or even better than everyone else.

If you have seen or read The Secret, you might have noticed the claim that this secret knowledge of the law of attraction has been kept secret for hundreds of years and that only a select few have been allowed to access powerful way to manifest your desires.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

When it comes to success and the law of attraction, the truth is that there really is no ‘secret’. There is no hidden knowledge.

The keys to success, the keys to understanding and applying these ideas have always been here just waiting for you to step up and take advantage of them.

Transforming your life requires two things:

1. Knowledge of how to change

2. Action that initiates the change you want

If you are struggling in any area of your life, this is your solution. Learn how to change and then take action and start making the change.

Learning How to Change

This is the easy part because so much information about the law of attraction is readily available today, just waiting for you to grab it. The bookstores are full of it. The web is overflowing with it. If information was all it took to create the life of your dreams, the world would be full of happy people.

But information alone is not enough!

I’ve found that the problem is seldom that clients don’t have enough information… usually it is quite the opposite, they have so much information that they don’t know where to start. They suffer from overload. They are so worried about the process that they get distracted from their original goals.

Has this ever happened to you?

Success will come when you release your need to master some secret technique and instead focus on the actions that will move you toward your desired outcome. Once you forget about trying to become ‘good’ at the law of attraction, or becoming good at manifesting, once you let go…

… that’s when the magic happens. That is when you will see your reality beginning to align with your desires.

It’s a process, and the process only works when you leave it alone. Remember, a watched pot never boils!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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The message in this week’s law of attraction video is a simple one: You are in control of your direction in life.

I love it when Esther and Abraham talk about trying to paddle upstream. I’ve been guilty of this myself, and every time that I notice my resistance to the flow of life and I stop and change my thinking, things turn around pretty quickly.

Sure there are lots of things that can distract you from your desires, and you can find yourself resisting the very changes that you want to manifest… but in the end, you will find that you, and you alone, are the one that chooses your path.

This is key to manifesting your desires with the law of attraction. Stop resisting your own efforts!

You resist for two main reasons – either you fear the coming change or you aren’t fully committed to the desire you are trying to manifest and you are hanging on to your old familiar ways.

In either case, as soon as you recognize the problem, you can take steps to correct it and get back on track.

You control your own stream of manifesting, and your power comes from being aligned with your desires and being in the flow, not from resisting them or allowing yourself to be distracted by all that stuff that is ‘upstream’.

Sometimes you will look back upstream and see all those missed opportunities in your life, all those wonderful chances that you let slip by, and you desperately want to go back and do it again. This is resisting.

There are many more opportunities to manifest your desires downstream! Downstream is the whole universe just waiting for you to step forward and claim what you want.

Set your sights on your biggest, grandest dream and never look back!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Stop struggling! Eliminate the stress in your life! Love, health, and abundance can be yours for the asking!

Big promises?

Not really, manifesting your desires is the most natural thing in the world. Follow the steps in this video and start creating your own manifesting magic!

There is really nothing hard about this whole process. Time and time again the principles contained within the law of attraction have helped transform lives and yours is no different!

The key is to actually apply the principles! It is not good enough to read a book or watch a DVD and get excited for a day or two. You have to DECIDE that you want to change, and then go out and BE the change that you want to create.

Ghandi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

It starts within YOU.

Once you decide the direction you want your life to head in you can step onto the path that will lead you there. But you can’t start until you DECIDE to.

You can want change, you can wish for change, you can even have a burning desire for change, but until you make that decision, and until you put the full force of your intention behind it, you will remain where you are.

So go ahead, make today the day that you decide that your dreams matter, that your future is too important to leave to chance. Decide to take control of your life.

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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It's not magic! Learn how to create your day the law of attraction way.

Creating your day.  The law of attraction promises us the ability to literally do just that… to change the very fabric of our day, to have a BETTER DAY.

I was thinking about this concept today, as I was out running some errands. I was driving along in my car, half listening to a wonderful course from Bill Harris, half daydreaming, when I realized the fundamental problem most people have when they talk about creating their day.

They simply don’t have better days. At least not enough of them.

In their mind, they envision each day to be full of love and happiness and balloons and candlelit dinners and mailboxes full of fat checks…

…but the reality is that even after trying, REALLY TRYING to use all these wonderful techniques that they learn about from law of attraction books and teachers, even after meditating and getting centered and aligned and who knows what else…

They STILL have bad days.

So they blame the law of attraction or they blame the teacher, or they blame God or the universe.

But that doesn’t help either and soon they find themselves right back in the same mess they started with.

Here is the solution:

Creating your day, regardless of your beliefs about the law of attraction, is NOT about having everything go your way all the time, about the universe lining up to bring you desire after desire after desire. About day after day of bliss and happiness.

Creating your day IS about you learning to control your reactions to the events of your day. Because it is never the events that give you a hard time, it is always your reaction to events in your life that cause you to struggle.

The more control you take over your reactions the better you will be able to guide yourself into taking productive actions that actually help you move forward.

Enlightened people don’t have less problems than you. They have the same things happen to them as you do. They just look at those ‘problems’ in a different light. They react in a different way.

In every situation there is a way of thinking and acting that empowers you and helps you grow.

Your job is to find it and embrace it!

It will happen as soon as you stop TRYING to have a good day and simply decide that you will have a good day, in spite of whatever comes up.

Sometimes you need to pause and step back to see what is really going on. Sometimes you need an outside viewpoint, like a trusted friend or a mentor, to help you see the truth of your problems.

In either case, as soon as you are able to change the way you are looking at your problems and your ‘bad’ days, the sooner you will be able to transform them into ‘good’ days!

You don’t have to be a law of attraction expert to learn to create your day, you just have to be willing to change!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Law of attraction key: Stop counting and start living!

In the last post, I shared a law of attraction video from Michael Losier, who talked about setting goals with the law of attraction. One of the things he said struck a chord with me, and with several readers as well. He said we tend to ‘keep score’, which distracts us from our original desire.

This is important. If you are busy keeping score, if you are always counting to see how close to your goal you are, then guess what?

You are slowing your own progress because you are no longer focused on your goal. Now you are focused on that area of lack that exists where your goal will eventually go.

As with most things related to the law of attraction, this seems to be a paradox, it seems to be an impossible task.

But the letting go of your desires so that they can manifest is, in fact, a natural way to live. It is much more stressful to be constantly checking to see if you have those ten new clients that you want, than it is to simply move towards those new clients isn’t it?

When an author sits down to write a 1,000 word article or a 50,000 word book, he or she doesn’t count each word along the way. Sure, they might check once in a while, but not all the time. If they did, they wouldn’t get any writing done. And they don’t just stop writing the instant that they hit 1,000 or 50,000 words either, the story they are telling may flow beyond those limits.

How often in your life have you found success when you stopped counting, stopped keeping score, and just focused on doing the thing that moves you forward? A lot I bet!

It happens to us all. The difficulty comes because we like keeping score, we like knowing just how far we have left. But when you keep your attention on the gap between your desires and your reality, the gap only grows bigger.

Let go of your dreams and live as if they are already real!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

One of the big questions around the law of attraction is whether goal setting helps you or gets in your way as you manifest your desires. Michael Losier talks about this in this short video.

You can see that it is easy to get sidetracked when you begin talking about your goals. It can seem hard to let go of your desires when you are busy ‘counting’ and seeing how close you are to your goal.

But don’t give up on goal setting just yet.

Every desire of yours is in fact a goal. And a goal, by its very definition is something that you have not attained yet, something that you want, but that you don’t yet possess.

But the law of attraction teaches us that we should not focus on those things that we don’t have, that we shouldn’t focus on the areas of lack in our life.

So what are we to do?

Well, as Michael said in the video, goals are good for defining and clarifying our desires, but once you set a goal you must let go of it. To be in synch with the law of attraction you must live and breath as if you already possess the thing you seek.

Do that and you will find yourself reaching your goals with a lot less effort than you dreamed possible!

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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Law of attraction quotes to inspire and motivate you!

I love powerful law of attraction quotes. These little collections of words have a way of lifting me up when I am down and keeping me on track when I’m distracted. They can do the same for you! If you are looking for an easy way to inspire and motivate yourself, this is it!

Simply gather some quotes about the law of attraction and success, then put them around your living space in places where you will be able to see them often.

I have some great law of attraction quotes posted on sticky notes around my computer, and I have others scattered throughout my home. They serve as a constant reminder to myself that I need to be keeping an eye on what I am thinking and doing.

You can do the same!

Here are a few of my favorite law of attraction quotes:

Abraham / Esther Hicks

“If you’re not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can’t connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.”
– Abraham-Hicks

Whatever you’re thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you’re worrying, you are planning. When you’re appreciating you are planning…What are you planning?
– Abraham-Hicks

Dr. Wayne Dyer

“I will see it when I believe it.”
– Wayne Dyer

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”
– Wayne Dyer

“There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.”
– Wayne Dyer

Marianne Williamson

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
– Marianne Williamson

Richard Bach

“Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
– Richard Bach

Benjamin Disraeli

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go higher than you think.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

Albert Einstein

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein

Carl Jung

“What you resist persists.”
– Carl Jung

Quotes are great because they remind us of those principles that we know are true, but that we have let ourselves lose sight of. Often all it takes is a quick read of one of these law of attraction quotes to quickly get me back in a good state of mind.

Do you like reading inspiring and motivation quotations? Would you share some of your favorites below?

Peace,

Bob Crawford
Your Success Coach,
and creator of Growing Your SELF!

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