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Originally Posted by SlicK  Can I?
There are many ways you can set your mind on a great goal. You can set a crappy goal and keep asking yourself WHY. Why do you want that? Why do you want the other thing? What will it do for you? What kind of other opportunities will it attract. Or you can start with a boring goal and keep building around it in your imagination. Keep adding details. Or it can just hit you one day. It is really not important how you do it. It is important to know yourself and "listen" to yourself.
Crap goal: "I want to make $5000 / month"
Awesome goal: "I want to make $5000 / month, money which I will use to pay the rent of an awesome apartment I wanted for a long time. I will eat the best food in the best places. Every weekend I will visit some new place that inspires me." And the list can go on. And of course, with specific details.
Crap goal: "I will get an awesome girlfriend!"
Awesome goal: "I want an honest girl that swears a lot just like me and she wears baggy clothes and listens to hip-hop and..." other specific details.
You know you have an awesome goal when it makes you super happy and you get  . When it just tickles you inside thinking about it then you have an awesome goal. Then comes the tricky part... You have to trust yourself that you CAN do it. If you let doubt dominate you, you'll just feel you're not worthy and you will abandon it. |
IMO those awesome goals are still crappy goals for most people. They're boring and socially conditioned. People think they want them because they've been taught to.
Being more specific isn't enough. Sometimes more detail just makes a goal sound tedious. Specificity doesn't necessarily generate excitement and keep you up at night. It can help sometimes, but it's not the most important factor.