@Rose: The goal-setting paradigm was a big breakthrough for me personally, so I'm glad to see it affecting you as well. Be patient because it takes a while to sink it. It took me many months to really internalize it, but eventually I started naturally thinking in those terms.
I hardly ever think about financial goals anymore because they simply don't inspire me. Instead I keep thinking about "What would I love to do?"
This is about clearing our heads of socially conditioned goals, pausing, and listening to what really calls to us. Then we need to give ourselves permission to just do those things -- simply because we want to experience them.
A big part of the conditioning I had to release was what I picked up as an entrepreneur. I got stuck in the mindset that everything I did in my business had to have a profit motive and that I should always be thinking about ways to grow the business and increase revenue. But that led me to put too much of my social and emotional development on hold. There were so many things I didn't do because I couldn't see how they'd help my business. It was hard to give myself permission to do things just because I was attracted to them and to allow that to be reason enough.
Today I spend a lot of time doing things just because I enjoy them, like reaching out and making new friends or conducting interesting experiments. This practice has really enriched my life, and I'm much happier for it.
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