StevePavlina.com Podcast #018 - Faster Goal Achievement
January 7th, 2007 by Steve Pavlina
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StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #18: Faster Goal Achievement
In this podcast you’ll gain insights on closing the gap between your current position and your goals/intentions.
In the language of Intention-Manifestation or the Law of Attraction, these ideas address how to come into resonance with your goal or to become a vibrational match for it. If you prefer less new agey terms, it’s about how to shift your identity from where you are now to the person you’ll eventually be once you achieve your goal. As your identity shifts to your new goal persona, you’ll feel naturally drawn to take whatever actions are necessary. But if your identity remains fixed at your starting point, you usually won’t feel much inclination to act, and your progress will be minimal or nonexistent.
This internal identity shift is a critical but often overlooked part of achieving goals and manifesting intentions. If you frequently set goals or put out intentions and then watch them die on the vine, it’s probably because you aren’t embracing the identity shift required to get there. You may know what needs to be done intellectually, but you haven’t reached the point of inspired action because you’re sticking to your comfort zone instead of walking away from it.
There’s a vast difference between knowing what to do vs. actually doing it, and this podcast aims to help you move from knowing to being, doing, and having. Whether you embrace traditional goal setting practices or the Law of Attraction or both, you won’t get very far until you learn to shift your identity from point A (your current position) to point B (your goal persona). This identity shift is the difference between struggling with procrastination, laziness, ineffective action, and deluded wishful thinking vs. enjoying the ongoing flow of positive results from inspired action.
When your identity is out of sync with your goal, action is very difficult — it is doing. When your identity comes into sync with your goal, action is inspired and effortless — it is being.
In this podcast I’ll share a couple internal shifts I experienced as a result of participating in the ongoing Million Dollar Experiment and how those shifts are bringing greater financial abundance into my life. I’m not a millionaire yet, but I did recently pass the $100,000 mark, and I’ll offer up a few insights I gained along the way. It’s been my experience that even seemingly subtle shifts in thinking can yield dramatic, measurable results on the outside.
Enjoy the podcast…
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January 7th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
[...] I agree that this is a very difficult point to get across. I think the best explanation I’ve found is that people manifest what lies in their deepest beliefs, conscious or unconscious. The idea is that you have to discover those beliefs and change them so you can be more “congruent” with your intentions/goals. The book The Attractor Factor gets into this concept of clearing beliefs in great detail. And Steve Pavlina gets into this in his latest podcast. Intending and manifesting and the Law of Attraction, are simply intellectual exercises in “wishful thinking” if they are not coupled with actions. Even though we may not know the necessary actions, we must have at least a recognition of the need for action and a commitment to develop a plan towards achieving the desired goals. [...]
January 7th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
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January 7th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
[...] Becoming a Millionaire Steve Pavlina’s new podcast, entitled Faster Goal Achievement, was something I really needed to hear, as it was reinforcing the way I was thinking with respect to goal achievement. I was thinking that if you want something to happen, like a goal of some sort, the only way it will ever manifest is if you make some part of it true right now. Making your goal in the present will allow the result to come to you much faster. [...]
January 7th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
[...] Now if you don’t mind, I’ve to go make drastic changes to my life. Posted by Uncle Su Filed in Recommendations [...]
January 8th, 2007 at 9:58 am
[...] Attitude shifts take time. Shifting your beliefs can be helped by finding another person who already has the attitude you want and by modifying your behavior to match a person who already has that attitude. Steve Pavlina posted an excellent audio recording recently about shifting your attitude and identity for goal achievement that is definitely worth a look. More than Appearances [...]
January 9th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
[...] Dream On: while goal setting should include some element of stretching ambition/dreaming - the to-do list requires far more practicality as it is short-term, here and now stuff. If you write a list solving all of the world’s problems in a day then you are likely to become discouraged very quickly. Keep your long-term goals to your goals list and your short-term steps to your to-do. As I saw somewhere recently (more than likely on stevepavlina.com) your 3, 5 and 10-year plans are the result of 1,000’s of individual actions on your to-do’s. [...]
January 10th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
[...] The short version is that until you are so immersed in your accomplishment that you know without a doubt that what you want is you, you will hinder your desire’s achievement. You have to be in the place that any contrary behavior is completely foreign to your being. For instance, if your goal is to be a non-smoker, you have to be in the place where when you get up in the morning, the thought of smoking a cigarette either doesn’t occur to you, or it fills you with such distaste that you consider it only for a moment. You ARE a non-smoker. You don’t like cigarettes, and you can’t understand what attracts people to them. [...]
January 10th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
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January 20th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
[...] Steve Pavlina gives a very thought-provoking podcast on how to achieve your goals faster. Talk about synchronicity, Eleutherios and I were just talking about this goal-setting method, on how instead of moving towards your goals, you make your goals move towards you. Definitely something I want to go deeper into. [...]
February 1st, 2007 at 3:49 pm
[...] Steve Pavlina: Identity shift required (podcast): In order to get to where you want to be, you probably need to change. If you didn’t need to change, you’d already be there. Start now! Just take the first step. [...]
February 20th, 2007 at 6:11 am
[...] I recently got really behind on my podcast listening. I just caught up, and in the process, I listened to a great podcast by Steve Pavlina. [...]
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:15 am
[...] Steve Pavlina sounds somewhat nerdy in his podcasts, but there is no denying he is a brilliant guy who has some amazing insights. The most recent podcast of his that I listened to, Faster Goal Achievement, successfully takes a different approach to goal achievement. As someone who has read/ listened to numerous personal development material, its always refreshing to hear something new. [...]
June 23rd, 2007 at 6:07 pm
[...] If you would like to hear more about this idea of shifting your identity, I recommend Steve Pavlina’s podcast on Faster Goal Achievement. [...]
July 26th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
[...] It was this realization that helped me increase my own income several times over during the past year alone, as I described in Podcast 18, and I didn’t have to work harder or longer to do it. I realized that if I think of some arbitrary amount of money as huge or extravagant, whether it’s $10K or $10 million, then I’m out of alignment with being able to earn that much money, which means I’m out of alignment with being able to generate that much value for others. [...]
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 am
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