It’s important to have goals, both for your work and your personal life.
It’s very difficult to succeed at anything without a clear goal.
You can have anything you like as a goal – except money. And here’s why….
First, there has to be a clear way to make the money. If you just set a goal to make money but you don’t have any idea how you’ll do it, your subconscious has nothing to work with. You have to think about HOW you’ll make that money, so for example if you plan to do it by running your own business, then THAT’s your goal.
Second, on the other side, what will you DO with the money once you have it? The money isn’t an end in itself, and it’s not something you can excite your subconscious by visualising. So for example if you want to be able to afford to have a horse, and a house with stables and a paddock, then THAT is your goal, that THAT is what will excite your subconscilous into taking action and finding a way. So as well as HOW will you make the money, the question is WHY do you want the money?
Third – if you start with the money, for example you have an idea that setting up a business unblocking drains could be a way to make a load of money, you run the risk of doing something you don’t love. There are two risks with this – first that you won’t be happy while you’re doing it, which could be for many years. And second, if you don’t love it then your heart won’t be in it, so you won’t be very good at it, so you probably won’t succeed at it. So you won’t be either happy OR successful – and that’s not a good outcome! Much better to start with something you love and let success and maybe money follow later.
Fourth is that if you somehow do succeed in achieving your goal of making money, will it make you happy? Often the price of making the money (there always IS a price!) outweighs the small increase in happiness you get from having that extra money, so it’s not worth it. So any expensive goal should be questioned. Where has most of your happiness come from recently? Probably from cheap or free things like having a laugh with your friends. So the horse and the house with the stables might end up being hard work to run, with all sorts of expected problems and hassle – maybe just to borrow someone else’s horse occasionally would be cheaper and actually better as well?
So that’s good news isn’t it? Forget the money and have your goals as things that will make you happy, and give you a sense of personal achievement, whatever anybody else thinks.
