Goal setting - You can't get from here to there if you don't know where there is

Dreams without guidance become fleeting, unattained  visions

When I was younger I would play a game that I called ... well actually, I didn't call it anything ... it was just something that I did, on my own, without anyone knowing.  I would set my sights on something that I wanted to do, have, or live in, travel to, etc.  Then, I'd allow it to go out to the Universe while I watched for ways to make my desires actually come about.  Sooner than later something seemed to always arrive that allowed me to push forward with my dreams.  Being able to envision what I wanted, allowing it to then be released without harping on it every few minutes ("oh I hope that happens or I want this so badly", etc.), and watching for ways in which my goals could be realized, worked with amazing outcomes.  At the time I knew nothing about the Law of Attraction, the Secret or any other New Age terms.  In my mind I was simply doing what my family (father and grandmother) always told me I could do - be anything, do anything and go anywhere I set my vision and my mind on.

In the early 80's I wanted to move to another city and one day while visiting family in that city I said to my husband as we drove by a high rise building "someday we're going to live there."  There, was a 20+ floor hi-rise that was octagon in shape.  He laughed at me and I said, "wait and see."  Only a few months later, in September 1982, my husband and I along with our 2 year old son,  moved to that city to become Residential Managers in the very building I'd pointed to and claimed would be our home some day.  There were consequences to that "dream"  however.  We found ourselves living on the 18th floor and my mother-in-law, petrified that our small son would some how open the patio door and plunge to his death one day,  requested we leave him with her during the week.  I tend to  listen to instincts and when someone else's instincts speak to them, if it involves me in some way, I tend to pay attention.  Our son stayed with Grandma for about 3 months.

During that time while out on a Sunday drive one weekend,  I randomly pointed at a building that housed a local cable company and claimed, "Someday I'm going to work there!"  By this time my husband was use to my weird ways and off the wall predictions.  Not quite 3 weeks later my sister-in-law who did work there,  told me about an opening and encouraged me to apply.  I did and I got the job.  Three years later I decided that I wanted to work with an Embassy and well...by now you can guess how that turned out.  I worked for the US Embassy for almost 10 years and loved it!


Sometimes it pays to be careful what you wish for (or at least HOW you wish for it)

From '85 to '93 I ran two part time businesses as well as working full time (us A type personalities seem to need to do it all don't we).  I was in the process of entering into a business arrangement with a friend which would add a 3rd business to the pile.  While all of this was taking place I had begun to have problems with stabbing pain in my hands, arms and neck but thought little of it.  One afternoon when the pain was particularly bothersome I said to myself, "I wish I could just stay home and do what I want to for awhile!"

Can you guess where this led me?  If you said staying home and doing what I wanted, you'd be partially correct.  Just a week or so after making that statement I was in a vehicle accident.  The car I was a passenger in was struck from behind and the unexpected jolt had forced my neck forward while my back pressed into the seat of the car.  Almost instantly I felt a nagging pain at the base of my neck but thought little of it.

Two weeks later I was in severe pain and unable to get out of bed.  My entire left side was paralyzed with pain.  Long story short, I got my wish.  It has been 14 years now since I have been able to work outside the home and I still deal with the difficulties from that accident.  However; I've enjoyed an amazing time watching my children grow into responsible, happy young adults, something I would not have been able to do if I had continued to be the driven, business oriented individual I was back then.   I still marvel at just how amazing life really is and how what we think/wish for/set our sights on, can and does come to be what is in our experience.

Setting Goals to move forward

Will you recognize when your life and your direction toward happiness, prosperity, joy and success show up?  If you don't have a goal in mind, if you aren't certain what direction you are headed, how can you recognize the steps being offered for you to take in order to reach your goals?

Change how you think and take action today, to get where you want to be tomorrow

The key to the Law of Attraction is not simply to say, "I want this or I wish to become that."  You can create all the vision boards you wish to but they alone won't attract your dreams and desires.  Meditation, visualization - even these will not assist you much if you don't have a clear and definite purpose - a goal or goals that you are aiming to achieve and a vision in your mind of how you will achieve them. You will never know when the  opportunities, gifts, steps or offers you receive, are the ones you need to get you were you want to be.

Setting Goals, placing them within your vision to develop a path that can assist you to recognize the sign posts of your dreams, visions and goals coming toward you,  is an important part of working with the Law of Attraction.  Even if you don't believe in it, or you don't call it this, you still need a plan of action,  a  method of recognition that allows you to realize your dreams, achieve your desires and live your life as you envision it being lived.

In the next segment of this post I'll cover some ways that you can set goals easily and know when those goals are preparing to come into your life.

Til then, have a fabulous week, take some time to think about where you are right now and where you want to be a week, a month, a year from now.  With just that little bit of goal visioning you might find yourself attracting steps, people and events that you then recognize as stepping stones to achieving your goals.

Dream with vision, 

Savanna