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The first steps to achieving your lifetime goals in plain english

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the distinction between intentions and expectations

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Intentions are key to having a meaningful experience, expectations are the short path to disappointment and suffering. Intentions arise out of our inner desire. You couple intentions with actions to create experiences you most desire in your life. It is an integral part of the law of attraction in action. Intentions are made with an open heart and spirit. You leave the door open for what you want to occur or something better. You are not attached to exact outcome or things looking a certain way. On the other hand, expectations are born out of our mind. You get an exact picture of what you want and it comes tinged with a bit of neediness and entitlement. You do not leave the door open for something different or better to occur because you want THIS and only THIS and you want it when you want it. You are fully attached to the outcome and of course if it doesn’t happen exactly as you wish, you are frustrated, disappointed, and you suffer.

Your Lifetime Goals

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or by a time at least, say, 10 years in the future) as setting Lifetime Goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making.

To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some of these categories (or in categories of your own, where these are important to you):
• Artistic:
Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what?

• Attitude:
Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.

• Career:
What level do you want to reach in your career?

• Education:
Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to achieve other goals?

• Family:
Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?

• Financial:
How much do you want to earn by what stage?

• Physical:
Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?

• Pleasure:
How do you want to enjoy yourself? - you should ensure that some of your life is for you!

• Public Service:
Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?
Spend some time brainstorming these, and then select one goal in each category that best reflects what you want to do. Then consider trimming again so that you have a small number of really significant goals on which you can focus.

As you do this, make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you genuinely want to achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or employers might want (if you have a partner, you probably want to consider what he or she wants, however make sure you also remain true to yourself!)

SETTING PERSONAL GOALS :THE BEGINNING

Starting to Set Personal Goals

Goals are set on a number of different levels: First you create your "big picture" of what you want to do with your life, and decide what large-scale goals you want to achieve. Second, you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that you must hit so that you reach your lifetime goals. Finally, once you have your plan, you start working to achieve it.

We start this process with your Lifetime Goals, and work down to the things you can do today to start moving towards them.

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