“Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to ‘look forward to’— to work for and hope for.” – Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
Many people have previously set goals that they didn’t achieve. As a result, unconsciously, they have a feeling of “here we go again” when they go through the steps once again. If this has ever happened to you, you might want to use alternative words for your goals, such as “project,” “objective,” and “target.”
I also advise that you look at your process and ask yourself if you failed because you had so many goals that your Creative Mechanism got jammed.
Did you confuse the mechanism by imagining you would build all of Rome, Italy, and Europe overnight?
Did you fail because you scared yourself away from taking action by setting goals that were too big for you at that time? Did you forget to give yourself bite-size daily process goals that would lead to the promised land?
If you answered “yes” to these questions, then you now have an opportunity to correct the mistakes you made. You can teach yourself to start smaller
and finish big.
You can learn to do more than set goals.
You can learn to get them.
When you make these corrections, the likelihood of you succeeding this time around is exponentially greater.
What project, objective, or target are you going to accomplish today?
Matt Furey
Note: Today’s email is an excerpt from my new book, Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded – where I take a daily quote from Dr. Maltz and decode it for you. Click the link shown above to get the book. Also available in Kindle and audiobook formats.
