Will achieving your goals make you happy?

Undoubtedly you must believe that or your various ‘wants’ would not be on your list of goals that you wrote after you created your Vision Board.

Speaking of your Want List, how many things have you written down? Strive for at least 30. It’s only the first 7 or 8 that take some hard thinking, after that the wheels are greased and they start tumbling out onto your paper.

But will they actually make you happy once you have them? Go back to a time when you thought that (car, home, job, partner, bigger salary, a dream vacation) would make you so happy and life would be better. You wished on stars, you dreamed and then miraculous it appeared in your life (it really wasn’t a miraculous event, you just unconsciously and accidentally tapped into the Law of Attraction). When you got it there was the initial euphoria and the feeling that “finally” you got what you wanted. Touchdown!

Think about how long that feeling lasted?

How long did it take for the ‘newness’ of that accomplishment to wear thin? The new car needed expensive gas and insurance, the new home came with a mortgage payment, the new job came with a boss who was mean, the new partner had habits that wore thin, the bigger salary didn’t stretch as far as you thought it would.

Eventually you realize you aren’t happy again so the search begins for the next thing that will finally make you happy and the cycle continues.

Picture this: a delivery van pulls into your driveway. A huge basket is brought to your door. In that basket are 30 little boxes. Each of those boxes is labelled with one of your goals (wants). As you open each box, suddenly that goal is manifested in your life! Wow, are you happy, happy! All of your wants (goals) have simply been dropped in your lap.

But were you really ready for all these ‘gifts’?

Have you heard some of the stories of people who have won huge lotteries? They have large sums of money, but they are the same people they were before their windfall. Were they ready for the onslaught of calls, letters and people coming to their doors asking for money? And even some threats when they weren’t forthcoming? Were they ready to give up all sense of privacy? For the emotions that tore through their families? To move from their home? Ready to hire accountants, lawyers and even security? I would venture to guess that winning large lotteries has caused more problems in people’s lives that it solves.

So now you are learning about Goal Setting and Achieving. You are making some changes, trying some things that you haven’t tried before. You have made a Vision Board, a 30 point Want (goal) List that you rewrite every day. You’ve been doing this for at least a month now …..hmmm….waiting…waiting…fingers drumming on table top. And you’re thinking, “When is this Law of Attraction” thing finally going to ‘work’?”

Maybe this ‘law’ thing is just a hoax, or “it may work for others, but it doesn’t work for me”. Would you doubt the Law of Gravity? Try stepping off the roof of your house. Would you doubt that the moon conducts the ebb and flow of the tides? Ask a sailor what happens if he ignores this. These are laws of physics and we can see them in action.

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