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Mark, much of what you said makes sense.

I have for most of the time over the years stressed about goals, & goal lists. Even recently; as soon as i set something up as a goal, it felt like a chore, and was experienced as a future oriented way of being. "to do", which feels so unnatural to me.

I am beginning to think of goals as another way of saying intention, or setting goals is another way of saying Setting the intent (or intentions) within oneself. Like a homing device is being set, except its totally neurological as a "this is what’s happening" state of being which assists one in carrying out sequentially all that is required until it has been completed.

Perhaps someone from an NLP background can confirm this; I believe it differs for each human being the way information is processed for understanding. The balance of each sense used for taking in information & processing, differs for each individual. Some people are more visual, others more kinesthetic, auditory, Left brain logic, right brain emotional, .. This is just stating what has already been said in the posts here already, and I am just extending when I say that goal setting in how it is generally understood to be, can be different for different people; Some people need to write it out and have their written list. Perhaps another needs to say it to make it more effective because of being more auditory oriented. (they use more of the hearing sense). Perhaps others just need to feel their way into it as an intent rather than intellectualize it into a list.

Only in past 3 years I have come to recognize that visuals is one of my predominant sensors for processing information. I realized why It was I did exceptionally well at school where the learning was visually oriented, so .
It was not until my late thirties that I realized why that visual was one of my predominant senses for processing, learning, & understanding after I looked at the thread of where I learnt most effectively up till that point. Of course, most people see, but I am referring to the predominant use for assimilating, relating, and processing.

When I was a teenager, I had huge posters on my wall. Mostly sports cars, but I had a windsurfing picture and some other things. I i use to look at them daily and appreciate and feel good about what i saw, it generated a desire within me. I did not understand any of this at the time. It was effectively a focusing and goal setting tool. I did not have money to buy a Porsche or some of the other types of cars when I first started working, but I did buy a sporty vehicle that was within reach, and many years later I realized that the dashboard of one of my favorite car posters looked very similar to the dashboard of the car I bought. (I was implying more along the lines of LOA in sharing the dashboard similarity) I also ended up windsurfing. Would I still have windsurfed if I had not have adored the picture.


So I think because of the difference in predominating use of particular senses by each individual, can be why some goal setters may not be understood, seen, heard, felt, known (have I left something out here) as goal setters.