Your Goals in 2009
Wayne Dyer - Power of Intention
Video by Wayne Dyer - duration 2hrs 15mins
Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this seminar. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. This seminar explores intentionnot as something you dobut as an energy you're a part of. We're all intended here through the invisible power of intention. Wayne Dyer teaches to look at intention as a field of energy that you can access to begin co-creating your life with the power of intention.
Zig Ziglar: Setting Goals
Photoshopping Your Dreams: Visual Goal Setting, Goal Movies, & Vision Boards
Goal Movies
Goal movies are basically Stephen Covey’s concept of “beginning with the end in mind” on steroids. Here’s an example
Visions Boards
Creating a vision board or dream board essentially involves taking a surface and placing on it pictures of the life you envision, the happiness you seek, the body you desire, etc. It’s important to place the vision board in a place where you’ll regularly view it. Vision/dream board advocates will encourage you to intentionally experience feelings of possession and gratitude while looking at vision board items. As goals are manifested, you can remove the associated items and add new ones.
Vision board items are by no means limited to material possessions. If you want to be happy, tack up a picture of you with a big smile smeared across your face. If you need a break pronto, put up that picture of you relaxing on a Hawaiian beach. You can also find pictures on the internet and print them up and cut them out, our use magazines. Some people like to add affirmations like, “I am living the life of my dreams” or “today’s is the best day of my life” or “my vacation to Thailand was wonderful.”
My belief is that while tools offered in this post may be useful, we need to make sure that our desires are sincere and authentic. Shakti Gawain does a good job of explaining this in Creative Visualization.
W. Clement Stone said “[w]hatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Back in the day, my former self tuned out whenever it heard that quote; it just seemed too cliché. But I became reminded of Clement’s words after seeing more than a few photoshopped goals.
Photoshopping a goal involves manipulating digital images to visually represent your goals as if they already existed. An example would be taking a PDF version of your bank statement and adding a couple of zeros to the balance. A low tech (i.e. non-photoshop) implementation might involving having a picture taken of you in your dream car (even if it doesn’t belong to you), and then meditating on the resulting picture while holding thoughts of ownership.
The idea is that photoshopped goals help your subconscious believe that you can attain things previously thought impossible. Getting your sub-conscious to buy into a goal radically empowers you to materialize the goal in real life. Some call it self-deception, others call it the law of attraction.
Sources
http://vodpod.com/tag/goal+setting
http://thegrowinglife.com/2008/02/photoshopping-your-dreams-visual-goal-setting-goal-movies-vision-boards/
http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/06/zig-ziglar-setting-goals/
