Goal Setting
Module 6: Claim Your Dream

Welcome back to The Ultimate Goal Setting Guide.

We’re now on the final week and, if you have focused on the ‘thoughts for the week’ and done all the weekly actions, you’re on the way to claiming your dream!

Part One

Let it happen

When we are fully focused on achieving something we tend to feel a strong emotional attachment to it. This attachment helps to keep us determined to face obstacles and find solutions and get results. When you are taking constant action, your Goal will germinate and sprout into being. You can then leave it to grow fully into reality.

This doesn’t mean you leave it and forget it. It’s very much like planting a seed and watching it grow into a flower. At the start you prepared the soil, watered it, and removed any weeds, you protected it and provided it with support. Think of your goal as now being at the stage where the flower buds are closed. At this stage you are certain that the buds will open and bloom any time now. Similarly, you are certain that your Goal will become reality.

Keep an eye on your Goal. Ensure it doesn’t flounder. Continue to protect it and nourish it but don’t try to control it or put it in a limiting box. That would be like opening the oven door before a cake has risen! Step back and allow it to happen. You have nothing to worry about, if you’ve prepared and steadily taken action, you’ll be able to let it go!

Part Two

Living in your Goal

You’ve worked on your Goal, now it’s time to live in your Goal. If your Goal is to be fit and healthy, start living as though you are fit and healthy. Think the way a healthy person thinks when they shop for food. Exercise regularly, the way a fit person does, or simply get off the bus a stop earlier and walk. If your Goal is to get a new job, imagine that you have a new job, make slight changes in your journey to work, start doing things differently.

Even though you are looking to the future, remember you live in the real world. So if, say, you want a promotion, first make sure you are worthy of it! Then start dressing for the part, think about how you would behave in your new, more senior role, and use more initiative to show others you’ve got what it takes.

Using appropriate affirmations can be a powerful tool to help you on your way forward. Choose ones which honour you, such as, ‘I am very good at my job’ or ‘I am worthy of a promotion’.

But remember, no amount of affirmations will help if your skills and abilities aren’t up to scratch!

Part Three

Act the part

It’s time to eliminate the ‘I want’ words when you are talking about your Goal. If you are still saying, ‘I want a promotion’, ‘I want to look attractive’, then you are really just claiming that you want them. There’s no time limit on ‘wanting’ things. The limit comes from defining when you want them.

If you want them now, act as though you have them.

A client of mine had a goal to move house. She thought it was a bit crazy to act as if she already had a new house , but what you are doing is seeing if your life has the time and resources to have your Goal. If you moved, what would you be doing differently now? Would you have more space, would you clear up some of the junk you’ve accumulated over the years?

You can start to claim your dream by making way to receive it.

Clear up some of the clutter, donate it to charity or sell it at a car boot sale. This works if you are looking to reinvent your image or start a new relationship too, because if you throw out what is taking up space without giving you benefits, you’ll be making space to fill with the things you truly want in life.

Part Four

Silence can be golden

When you are at the stage of claiming your dream, you are ready to accept your dream. In doing so you must still be aware of the language you use. Remember that words have creative energy. Don’t waste that energy talking about how much you want it, as this won’t maintain the momentum, but destroy it.

Stay silently committed.

Think of Nelson Mandela. His response to the indignities of prison life was to deny being a victim. He studied and learnt and kept alive his ultimate Goal, which was to have a democratic free society with racial harmony. Mandela spent over two decades in prison and during that time he got ready to claim his dream. You have the good fortune to able to claim your dream much sooner. Go for it!

Action!

Actions of the Week

1. Write down your Goal and why you are ready to claim it

Then on a separate sheet write about your Goal as though you have claimed it, write in the present tense. Put this it in an envelope, write a date on the front, a month from today, and put it away in a safe place. Write the date in your diary and surprise yourself by seeing how much you have claimed of your dream in that time!

2. Visualise claiming your Goal

Make the vision vibrant, colourful, and moving – like an image on a cinema screen. See yourself in your vision; notice the sounds, the smells, and the temperature. Notice all the things that would show you were actually physically experiencing your Goal. Do this every morning.

3. Remind yourself of all the preparation you’ve done

What did you make happen that proved that you were working on your Goal? Make a list of the things you’ve done.

4. Use affirmations

Create three ‘I am..’ affirmations which represent you having your Goal, and write them out every morning

5. Celebrate your committment

Take yourself out on goal claiming date. Dress up, take a trip, buy some gorgeous flowers, book in for a massage. Do something to thank yourself for being your No. 1 supporter.

Well done ! You’ve come a long way. Six weeks ago you didn’t know where to begin with goal setting, and now you are a different person!

From now on you’ll be seen as one of the lucky people, but you know better, you know that everyone can create their own luck and opportunities. Everything you’ve learned from the Ultimate Goal setting guide will ensure that you always succeed.

Keep setting goals and making it happen for you, because you know that you deserve to live your dreams.