Personal Development for Conscious Creation

About 6-8 months ago I wrote down a series of very ambitious goals. Being the classy person that I am – I wrote down all of my goals as a “checklist” in the Notes application on my iPhone.

Some of these goals are very concrete and tangible things such as financial goals, work stuff and other related items while some of the other goals are more abstract and can’t really be measured or tracked.

After I wrote these goals down, I literally went through them about 6 times a day for a month straight. I would open that damn App and read them in my head, out loud and while I was sitting around doing nothing. I really burned those goals into my memory. I can still recall my goal checklist without even looking at it.

How I Achieved My Goals By Forgetting Them – The Process

I eventually started to get a bit busy with work as a lot of new projects came my way. I also became “too busy” to read my goal list and eventually I stopped entirely. I had gotten so wrapped up in school, work and other projects that I literally forgot about those goals cold turkey.

Today as I was randomly browsing my through my phone I had stumbled upon that dusty old Note that contained all of my goals and then it hit me like a ton of bricks…

In just about 5-6 months I had managed to accomplish about 20-25% of the goals that I had originally set out to accomplish over a 3-year period…

How The Hell Did That Happen?

Now, I am no stranger to setting goals… I’ve done this plenty of times in the past and nothing had really come of it. In fact, this last time around, I sort of did it out of desperation. I needed a way to organize my thoughts and to focus my energy on creating exactly what I wanted.

Why This Worked

I believe that this worked because after I had burned what I wanted into my mind – I had told the universe and my brain exactly what I wanted to create and experience.

The secret was that forgetting about my goals was actually the best thing that I could have ever done… By forgetting about my goals, I had detached from the details about how they could and would manifest. Instead of being emotionally attached to them and having lots of “ups” and “downs” when things either happened or didn’t happen according to how I would have like to see them, I was instead free to be passionate about the things I loved doing.

In summary, I was:

Not obsessing over the details of how these things happened

I was more concerned with the goal itself and was able to focus my energy into creating it instead of worrying about how it would come to me

Not emotionally invested to the point where I was completely drained and fatigued.

Did The Goals Happen on Their Own?

The irony here is that I got so busy with a stream of things that at the time were taking me closer and closer to my goals. I hadn’t realized it until now, but just the right circumstances, ideas and people came to me at precisely the right time. I didn’t resist any of these things whatsoever whereas in my past I would resist things and kill them before they even got a chance to get off of the ground, so to speak.

The goals didn’t just “happen” by themselves. First, I had to get out of my own way and learn to stop self-sabotaging myself with certain goals. Once I was able to do this effectively, I was more receptive to seeing the opportunities that presented themselves to me at just the right times. This allowed me to take advantage of certain things that I’d otherwise be too scared to do.

Once I stopped self-sabotaging myself, I learned to work my ass off without interrupting my own progress. You can’t get anything done without hard, driven work. In fact, I can see the correlation in the realization of my goals with how busy I’ve been over the last 6 months. I have sacrificed a lot of my time and energy to get to where I did and there was no way to short cut this.

In Conclusion

By forgetting about my goals, I had freed up the necessary mental, physical and spiritual energy I needed to accomplish the goals. I set the universe in motion by burning the goals into my mind and then I stepped out of my own way and worked my butt off to complete all of the work and tasks that started to pour in front of my face.

My advice to you would be to look at the goals you are trying to set and then see what kind of “mental chatter” goes on in your brain about them. Do you believe that they require too much work? Then they will. Do you believe that you don’t know how to achieve them? This thought will be true also.

I had really “snapped” and decided to throw all of my pre-conceived notions about my goals out of the window. I decided to start and approach my problems with the infinite curiosity of a child. I was willing to admit that perhaps what I believed to be true about my goals (I believed they were too hard, required too much work, time etc) actually wasn’t true now that I am accomplishing them at a faster pace.

I have been faced with the universal truth in life that the things, circumstances and events in our life are usually as challenging as we frame them and perceive them to be within our own minds and our own thoughts.