This is critical.
You might have the best and most carefully thought out goals and desires; but if you don’t have the proper beliefs to support them, your goals will be reduced to wishful thinking or dreaming.
If you have aligned goals but not the proper belief structures in place to support those goals you are sure to experience a lot of frustration.
You question yourself and the Universe, wondering why you can never take successful action. you get frustrated because you know you have desire, yet you can’t figure out the way to make your goals take flight.
That is because you have beliefs that are in conflict with what you desire – or perhaps beliefs that just don’t support what you desire.
Example:
Here is a computer analogy I use to help people understand this important concept.
Ask yourself this question, “Would I expect the best PC program to work on a Mac-based computer?
Of course not!
Why?
Because almost everybody knows that PC programs are not compatible with Mac-based computers.
You know that – or you quickly find out when you try
to install the wrong software. It may be frustrating; but once you figure it out, you go back out and get compatible software.
The same is true for your goals and beliefs.
Think of your life as the computer… and your goals as the software program.
If there is some component missing from the language, the program will not run.
Even if we have the most perfectly written software but we put it on a different platform from that for which it was written, guess what? It won’t work.
Just like software programs have a language, so do goals.
If you forget a step, the computer program just won’t run.
True?
Incompatible software can even cause a program to stop running and – worse – cause your computer to crash.
The same is true with goals. If they are not designed or thought out properly, they simply will not work.
They can even cause a crash in your life.
The answer is simple: Before you set a goal for your life, make sure it is S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time –lined)
Action Step: Take one of your wishes from your 101 wish list. See if you can format the wish into a S.M.A.R.T goal.
Rewrite the wish into a sentence that is specific, has a measurement component, is action-oriented and has a time-line to be completed by.
Once it is in S.M.A.R.T format it is ready to have some thought and strategy aligned to it and it is able to be achieved.
