How To Achieve Your Goals - The SECRET System To Setting & Achieving Goals
If you were to ask 100 people on how do you achieve your goal you'd get 100 different answers, probably things like ''Oh first you need to wake up at 3:17am and not use your phone for the first 17 hours of the day, then you work extremely hard and then skip meals because dieting is a good way to lose weight right?'' ☝️🤓
Cringe.
The system I speak about is a combination of 2 chapters from 2 different books I read. These are 2 of my favourite books BTW, (and that have left a profound impact on me).
- The Power of Thought - Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Discovering The Success Mechanism Within You - Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
These are 2 of most renowned and bestselling self-help books EVER. So you're not hearing it from me, you're hearing it from these incredible men, I'm just here to pass on the message.
What Most People Do (Losers)
My story - yes everything I share with you is probably cause I first made a mess of it, and then found out a better way to do it, so if you don't wanna mess up like I did hear me out, (it's a few minutes that may change your life and I'm not exaggerating when I say that)
I remember last year, it was during a training session, we were doing rondos,
(if you don't know what that is, it's basically when there's a person in the middle and people form a circle around him and pass the ball to each other, his goal is to take it, and the person who makes the mistake goes in instead of him)
And bro I'm not kidding when I say that every time I got the ball, I lost it and ended up embarrassingly going in the middle.
I was like 'what's going on, I'm the same exact player as I was yesterday, why is today completely different?'
Luckily enough I was reading one of the chapters I mentioned that very same week, and as I was reflecting on my bad training session it hit me like a train,
'It's your thoughts'
'IT'S YOUR DAMN THOUGHTS!!'
It was like I just found America for the first time.
The next day we were doing the same exercise again and I decided to put what I read about to the test,
And bro I'm not understating the fact that I did not lose the ball even once.
The difference it left was crazy.
But what did I do??
I controlled my thoughts...
Speak to a normal person, literally about anything and you'll hear it,
'But I can't do that, I'm unlucky, I'm not this person bla bla'
It's all negative.
Now I'm not some dumbass guru preaching about only positive thinking,
But my point is that they get what we call ANTs,
Automatic Negative Thoughts,
These are thoughts your brain comes up automatically cause you trained it that way, but you can also train it to do the opposite.
Thoughts are Neither Good or Bad, They're Neutral
Our mind cannot understand that we don't want something to happen, so if you say 'Don't lose the ball' it will only hear 'Lose the ball',
And you want to know the secret right away?
Thoughts are Goals.
That is the reason behind everything.
The mind cannot speak back to you and tell you;
'Listen bro, that's not a good thing to go after',
It will just go to work on it. Whether it's good or bad.
The mind is what we call a goal-striving mechanism, it means it will work towards goals automatically, on it's own, you don't need to force anything. Now link this to 'Thoughts are Goals'.
Since thoughts are goals, and the mind automatically chases goals, your thoughts are the goals your mind will be chasing.
Since in that bad training session I had ANTs and always thought I was gonna lose the ball I did. Cause the mind can't distinguish a bad goal from a good goal, only we can do that, the mind only sees;
'Okay he's thinking about losing the ball, so that must be what he wants to do, roger that, working on it.'
And as a result you'll lose the ball,
In the training session after it I made the challenge to myself to control my thoughts and only think about things that I want to happen, and guess what, they happened.
I was extremely impressed and intrigued when I read these 2 chapters, it's like things finally clicked. And it also taught me as to why some people are so unlucky, (psst, they're not, they just ONLY look at the bad stuff that happens to them, and ignore the positive)
I hope this lesson will have as big of an impact on you as it had on me.
So always, constantly be on the lookout for the thoughts you have in your mind, be mindful, and if you need to, take control and change those thoughts into better ones, better goals.
How To Achieve Your Goals - Summary
- Thoughts are goals for your mind
- Your mind cannot distinguish between a positive thought and a negative thought, it just sees 'Thought, okay, working on it'
- Your mind automatically works towards thoughts you think about, and most of the time it will achieve them
- How often do you get ANTs?
