It’s a mistake to assume that you need a big goal to push you forward in life.
Goals can be very helpful – but the big question is what your understanding of a goal is:
What is the purpose of a goal? Why do we set goals?
What drives us to work towards our goals?
It’s all about motivation.
It’s about getting dopamine.
When you lack motivation, you don’t feel energized to do the things you need to do.
Many will create big and distant goals to make up for this.
They think they need a carrot on a stick far away in the distance to chase after – but this is a mistake. It won’t give you the motivation you need to push forward.
Why? because big and distant goals are vague and unclear:
- “My goal is to become successful”.
- “My goal is to become a better version of myself”.
- “My goal is to be rich and have beautiful girls”.
Goals like these will not give you any motivation.
What you need to do is to be more clear and specific with your goals.
Visualization can be a powerful tool to do this.
Try to visualize the kind of life you would like to live:
- What would your house look like?
- What would your business look like?
- Would you be in excellent shape?
- Would you have beautiful women in your life?
- How would you feel?
This is about getting more clear and concise on what you want and what your goals are. It’s about making the vague and distant goals clear and reachable, so that they can motivate you.
To add to your motivation, you could also use negative motivation.
This type of motivation is about scaring you into doing something.
A negative motivation could be anything from financial pressure to pressing outside circumstances.
Being on the verge of going broke will force your mind to give you motivation – which can make you extremely effective in the way you orient yourself.
Combining this pressure with positive goals can be profoundly powerful.
It will pressure you to be more effective and help you push towards your goals.
What Are Your Natural Abilities?
I wasn’t drawn to singing, music, or artistry. It came out of me like it was a part of me.
I was always the “creative guy” in school. My mind would naturally be able to produce new and creative ideas.
The problem is that this doesn’t always make you effective.
When I grew older I started focusing on getting into music, which was something I had always wanted to do.
The problem was that I restricted myself to one specific goal: I wanted to become like Jeff Buckley.
This made me struggle, because it massively restricted the natural fountain of creativity in my mind.
My goal was forcing me to be like Jeff Buckley.
It restricted me to something that I actually wasn’t.
I was never a natural musician. I was a creative artist that could do music, but not a musician.
This kind of goal-setting sent me in the completely wrong direction.
Eventually everything collapsed – and I had to reorganize myself. I had to get in touch with who I really was.
I could never be a musician.
But I could be a decent singer and maximize my potential using my creative skills.
I centered my behaviors and goals on the creative mind that I naturally had.
I realized that this could bring me to a more ideal point – where I was putting out creative stuff and generating wealth.
Instead of creating big and distant goals, I started focusing on manifesting this creative output every single day.
I allowed myself to get out of the way and let the creative phenomenon inside of me give birth to itself – like a meditative flow state.
That was my goal: To reach this meditative flow state every single day. I knew that if I could do this, I would be on a path of progress.
By doing this every day, I slowly started building up momentum.
I started putting out creative content and people started noticing it. This got my dopamine cycles running, and all of a sudden the whole ship was running by itself.
If you want to maximize your potential, you should ask yourself what your natural abilities are. You should try to externalize them and plug them into the world in a way that brings results.
Start by asking yourself how you can get into a creative flow state, where you let your natural abilities give birth to results.
By focusing on this instead of big and vague goals, you will become effective and start building momentum.
If you find you are aimless, unanimated, but still working yourself to the bone with “discipline” and “self help” then you’re probably making the mistakes above!
My program will help you build clear and reachable goals that will give you motivation,
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