Reach Your Goals

Avoiding doom and gloom is a good start, but you can become more motivated if you do nice things for others as often as possible. Do you know someone you can help today? Do you know anyone who needs words of encouragement, financial aid, guidance and counseling, or any other need that you can meet? The scripture says that the one freely watering others will himself also be freely watered. (See Proverbs 11:25) The problem is that sometimes we get caught up in thinking about how big our problems are, or how we cannot solve them and this can make us to feel powerless because we can’t do anything about them—things only God can change. I’ve learned that sometimes by thinking on purpose about doing things for others without any possibility for compensation or acknowledgment, it not only makes me feel better, but also allows God to make use of others to meet my needs. So what can I do? You may ask. Well, the quick answer is a lot. Here are five key things you can do: 1. You can make fin...

The people you spend time with can either lift you up, or pull you down. They can have a positive or a negative influence on you and your life. A conversation will act as affirmations as they begin to feed you with their limiting thoughts and beliefs. If you're not at a level of self-improvement where you don't allow others to influence you with their negative attitude, you are better off spending some time alone. This tip may take a little longer to show results, but it is well worth the effort! From this moment, start reducing the amount of time you're exposed to negativity. If this means not watching the evening news for a while or avoiding the negative people in your life, it is important that you practice keeping your mind on the positive outcomes that you expect. If you have to scan the headlines on TV or the news website once a day and read only the things you feel you must know about, that’s fine. Just avoid getting a regular dose of negativity every day if you ...

You have to follow the desires of your heart; not what you should do, or not do as delineated by others. The choices you make must be your own. Of course, you should weigh up any consequences your actions may have on others and often it is wise to go and seek the advice and opinion of others. In the end, the choice is yours because no one is qualified to make your decisions, has your exact personality, or has to bear the full consequences of your choice as you must. That is why you must learn to have faith in your own inner guidance system and to develop your power of choice and decision-making by using this. Moreover, if you go down a path you haven't consciously chosen you won't achieve your full potential. I spoke with a friend recently who is a law student. After chatting for a while he began to tell me that he wasn't really interested in becoming a lawyer, but his family wants him to become one. He told me he was making plans to change his career in order to become...

Making choices is one of the privileges we have in life. The first step to getting what you want is to first determine clearly and specifically what you want. Also, use your mind to explore thoroughly the opportunities and possibilities lying hidden in what you are presently doing before you try something new. If what you are doing right now is from a previous choice there were probably good reasons for it. If it is not giving what you require then it is perhaps time for some further exploration. Often people have to experience several careers to develop their potentials until they find their true calling. The important to remember is that within every kind of work there is another opportunity waiting to be noticed. Furthermore, your choice of peer group will be a key determinant to success or failure in your life. A conversation will act as affirmations to you as they feed you with their own positive or negative views. Every human being wants success, yet the majority of every gener...

All individuals have different desires. Their thoughts express their desires and their body is created in the image of their desires. For example, the individual who will think inventive thoughts differs from the individual who would be satisfied on an assembly line. The assembly-line worker does not look like the inventor. His thought will create a different type of individual. Each individual becomes what he thinks. Very few people realize that their thoughts and desires are immediately stamped on their faces and bodies. Furthermore, if you wish to transform your individuality into a greater one, begin thinking great thoughts, beautiful thoughts, powerful and friendly thoughts, and your personality will immediately reflect your changed thinking. Your face will have a different expression in every detail, as well as your whole bearing. Your very posture and gestures will mark you as transformed being. You can transform yourself permanently into a higher type of individual by thi...

Solomon said: "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." So we become what we think about. Each of us becomes exactly what we program our minds to be. A prosperous person programs prosperous thinking into his or her mind and a miserable human being instructs his or her mind to "make me unhappy, mediocre, boring, and average." Whatever you plant in your mind it will feed it— your mind is like soil in a garden. Furthermore, the mind is what the mind is fed. Our mind food determines our habits, attitudes, and our personalities. Our thinking determines our actions, and it is our actions, feelings, and mood that determine the actions, feelings, and mood of others. Moreover, remember that attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought and they can be acquired. We have the ability to form better habits and it requires a great deal of effort to unlearn our old habits. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we'll embrace for that ...

You are a divine, immortal, invincible soul. You center a visible, physical body which consists solely of thought-waves of motion, created for the purpose of manifesting your divinity. Your divine immortal soul is one with the Creator of the Universe. That is what Jesus meant when he said, “I and my father are one, and what I am, ye also are.” Many have told us these facts, but because man thinks of his body as himself, he has found it difficult to accept the idea of his own divinity. The fact is not very difficult to be accepted by the few who have already been illumined from within. These few know God within them. These are the ones who have heard the Silent voice of their Soul whispering to them in rhythms which finally had meaning. There are many today who walk, talk, and work knowingly with God— and God works with them to make their work masterly. These who have learned to manifest God on earth, have re-inspired others know their divinity. They commune with God in moment to ...

God has given all living creatures the instinct to survive but He has given us another quality which sets us apart. Mankind has an in-built desire to succeed, something which is as natural to us as breathing. Humans are by nature goal-striving and we are not happy unless we are functioning in this way. There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way. You already possess an unlimited force within you to do this, what is required is the programming of the ultimate computer— your mind. You are the programmer and with the right techniques you can instruct it to select what you really want. We become what we think. Each of us becomes exactly what we program our minds to be. A prosperous person programs prosperous thinking into his or her mind and a miserable person instructs his or her mind to make them unhappy, mediocre, boring, and "average". Your mind is like soil in a garden— it does not care what you plant— it will always nourish it.  Tak...

Always look for the opportunity which is simply awaiting your recognition. When the fruit in the garden is ripe it is easy to swallow and you in turn will not see the things that stare you in the face, until the time arrives when the mind is ripened even though they are there for you all the time. Throughout our lives there are new, exciting opportunities but we have to look for them.The problem is that too many people wait for an opportunity to present itself. Opportunity does not chase you; you have to go after it. Think about this for a moment. Everyday on TV and radio and in newspapers we here about discoveries which testify the talents and abilities of the "ordinary person" in the worlds of sport, music, literature, science, technology, medicine, and the arts. Too many, however, think that those talents exist only in others and not in themselves, yet they are also "ordinary everyday people". Every "ordinary person" is exceptional when involved in the...

Creativity involves breaking out of old established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. We have to learn to see the world with new eyes.          It has been proved that the level of intelligence and creativity that we develop is in direct proportion to the quantity and quality of stimulation that our mind receives. Reading, more than anything else stimulates the mind and the imagination. Educating oneself through the reading of books is the key to the liberation of the mind. Sadly, the majority of people never read another non-fiction book after they have left school. Reading gets the imaginative juices to flow which in turn flows more quickly with use. When it comes to your inner creativity, you either use it or lose it, as the old adage goes.         Put your intelligence to creative positive use. U...

We are as unique as snowflakes. A human being is a single being; unique and unrepeatable. No one has your fingerprints, your lip prints your ear or toe prints. Doctors have shown that your blood is peculiar to you. You are, in fact, a special individual with the capacity to achieve great things. This is because you have the ability to reason and this sets you apart from other forms of life.      God made every creature on earth with a special area of expertise. Some animals run, some hop, some swim, some burrow, and some fly. Each has a particular role to play based on the way they were shaped by God. The same is true with humans. Each of us was uniquely designed, or "shaped" to do certain things.      Before God created you, he decided what role he wanted you to serve him, and then shaped you for those tasks. This is why it is so important that you know you are good at something others are not, and stop trying to be or do things like others bec...

When God created you and me, He breathed the breath of life into us and then put a little part of Himself in us. We are created in his image and filled with His potential— a potential to do the impossible. There is a gold mine of potential hidden deep within every person and you are no exception.      Potential is "greatness that exists as a possibility but not yet reality." In other words, a person who has potential has all the necessary ingredients to be successful, but the ingredients have not been activated, it's like knowing there is a huge vein of gold hidden in the earth in your yard. But in order to get to it and fully benefit from its tremendous value, you have to do some deep digging.    Each of us has been created for a purpose, a reason, but if we don't know what it is or what we want, our untapped potential stands idle. In that case we become like a unique all powerful computer whose new operator has lost the instruction manual and therefore...

Our power of choice is our ultimate freedom. We have the power to choose our thoughts, words and actions.     Your present circumstances have nothing to do with your future; they are mainly a result of past choices, or non-choices. Therefore, if you decide to make new decisions about the things you want to do, have, achieve, buy and become, together with a strong desire to achieve them coupled with a good plan of action, you'll realize that you have what it takes to achieve whatever you believe. You can make positive changes in your life if you really want to. I will share with you more tips and success strategies to help you achieve your dreams and the desires of your heart.                                                   ...