How to Get Goal Setting to Work

In my last article on “Why goal setting doesn’t work” I talked about the reason goal setting doesn’t usually work is because you set goals from the tiny percentage of your brain where you make logical choices. And to truly achieve your goals you need to get your goal, or vision, locked into your sub-conscious mind that controls your actions without you thinking about it.

So today I want to share with you how you might go about actually doing this.

The main key is to turn on your reticular activating system (what?!).

The RAS is a mechanism in your brain that filters through the crazy amounts of information that is in your environment and tells you what is relevant to you at the time according to the priority system your brain has set up.

For example…have you ever noticed that when you want to buy a gadget say an iphone, or new TV, you start to notice the people that have what you want.

Or when you want to buy a car you suddenly begin seeing that car everywhere!

The reason this happens is because you have told your RAS that this phone or this car is important and therefore needs to be noticed. It isn’t that those cars weren’t driving around before or people never had that phone. It’s just that your RAS wasn’t turned on to that so you never noticed it before.

So what does this have to do with Goal Setting?

Everything!

If you can program your RAS to be turned on to the resources you need to accomplish/finish your goal. You’re halfway there to actually being someone who lives out their dreams.

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