Ride The Current Economic Storm With Goal Mapping - Brian Mayne

Wednesday 1st July 2009

By ‘Goal Mapping’ founder, Brian Mayne

We are living in extraordinary times.

The winds of change are blowing and an economic storm is brewing the likes of which has not been seen before. You cannot fail to notice. It is the screaming headlines in every paper, the lead story of the daily doom and gloom news; recession is here.

Which is why, in these uncertain, fast-changing times of economic turmoil and financial crises, it has never been a more important to learn the art of goal setting.

Learning how to set goals correctly does more than just help you to hold a positive focus during times of rapid change - setting goals helps you to seize the seeds of opportunity that are always carried with the wind. And great change brings great opportunities.

While you can’t control the direction and force of the wind, you can choose ‘the set of your sail’ - your beliefs, attitudes and actions - in response to the changing tide of life. Choose to greet the changes in your life with a positive attitude and you begin to spot the many new opportunities that are constantly being created.

“Fate favours the prepared mind”, wrote Louis Pasture. Just like the experience of getting something new causes you to notice that thing everywhere you go, so setting a goal programmes your subconscious to help you spot any opportunity to achieve your desires, while other people pass them by.

Not everybody does poorly in a recession. Some people, some teams, some networks, actually prosper, because success doesn’t depend on which way the economic wind blows, it’s down to ‘the set of your sail’ the beliefs, attitudes and actions you choose to live by. By choosing the set of your sail, you are able you to ride the wind towards your desires. Your goals are like beacons of light by which to steer your course.

When you set a goal you programme your subconscious mind, your internal sat-nav system, with the coordinates for your success. Have you had the experience of deciding to go somewhere, you briefly picture in your mind where you want to go, and the next thing you know ‘you’re there’ but hardly remember your journey. This common experience is possible because your subconscious mind is goal-orientate - once it receives your conscious commands it carries out the many actions needed to get you to your destination. This happens whether you are driving, walking, or going about your business, your subconscious works in the background like an autopilot helping you to make the journey.

However, the one thing that your subconscious cannot do, is to make choices, it simply responds to your strongest thoughts and feelings. Therefore, you have probably also had the experience of intending to go somewhere, but not strongly picturing it in your mind, and instead of taking that important turn you needed, you carried on down an old route, taking you to somewhere you didn’t actually want to go.

Simply knowing what you want isn’t enough, because you also know what you don’t want, which cancels out the positive command. In difficult times, when our thoughts and feelings fall into the negative and when we begin to excessively worry about the future, we are unwittingly creating a picture of an unwanted outcome in our mind, and without realising it, we are commanding our subconscious to move us towards it. Unless corrected by a strong positive thought of our true desires, our negative worries leads us off down dark stony paths of self-sabotage.

The Goal Mapping system by Brian Mayne helps you create a ‘Map of success’ in words and pictures of what you truly want , why, when, how and who you will need to be to achieve it. In creating your very own Goal Map you activate the whole of your brain and send a powerful positive picture to your subconscious which overrides any negative fears and concerns, and helps you move towards your goals.

Download the FREE Goal Mapping Guide, www.goalmapping.com Follow the seven simple steps to create your very own Goal Map and turn your dreams into realities.

Author Profile
Brian Mayne is the founder of 'Goal Mapping' and chairman of LIFT International. He is an inspirational speaker, author and trainer. His seminars and workshops, like his acclaimed books Sam the Magic Genie and Life-Mapping are both clear in their message and practical in their application. Amongst his many systems for success, Goal-Mapping and Life-Mapping, have enabled him to help people create and steer change within their lives, winning him the gratitude of his audiences, and a place on the world stage of public speaking.

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