Setting Goals – Do you Know What You Really Want?
As a recent participant in an audio webcast about setting goals from a raised belief level, I learned what the power of seeing and believing actually meant. This way of thinking may be especially appealing to the entrepreneur wanting to make a meaningful difference in the success of their business.
Right off the bat, Mr. Sen challenged us with, “When we set goals and our mind knows it can achieve it, it is not a vision, it is a to-do list.” How often in business have we been guilty of this, by passing off our sure-bets as goal-setting? Too often?
Goal Setting Compromised
In my corporate experience this was the ‘A for Attainment’ element when setting SMART goals. I remember being puzzled by this. Now I see it was basically a process for organizing and managing plans, capacities and responsibilities. It did have some degree of stretch you could financially project. But, since compensation was tied to the attainment, it bred a certain level of caution. Of course, setting goals was an easier process when you were in a growth business, as I was. What was missing was the emphasis on raising your belief level to bring you and your team into new possibilities and visions.
Raising Your Belief Level
80% or more of attaining Success has to do with raising your belief level. The rest are details, responsibly managed, of course. Ask any truly successful entrepreneur. They pursue their goals from a raised belief level, often against the collective minds of others. It is that kind of faith in themselves that creates their success. If they do not succeed the first time, they keep at it until they make success their process.
You see, your belief level is a measure of your capacity to want more for your business and your life. And you cannot raise your belief level based on what you think you can get. It demands more of you. It demands that you go beyond your comfort zone. And it demands that you become more than you think you are.
Knowing What You Really Want
Most people know deep inside what they really want, and it is always more than who they are being right now. Yet fear of failure makes most people shove it under the rug and stick with the status quo. So the journey gets aborted before it begins. And the dream gets stuffed beyond recogniton.
Yet there exists inside each of us an innate desire to reach out for more joy, more abundance and more love. Ask your heart, “What do you want?” If you answer immediately, it’s probably your mind wanting to take over the response. Let your heart take the lead here.
With no want, you have no Vision. And as Tulshi Sen says, “A life without Vision is a blind life. A life without direction is an unloved life.” So love yourself and find out what you really want. Then, go for it. Your business will love it too.
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Aditi Walsh is a conscious entrepreneur. She helps people create and manifest their visions of success, sharing success principles, strategies and tools at WebMarketingRebel blog.
Setting Goals – How Do You Get What You Really Want When it’s Beyond Your Current Means?
Let us take a journey into the heart of the entrepreneur, where impossible dreams are conceived out of no-thing:
The Visioning Process
You are living at the center of your being. You ask yourself, “What do I want to create for my business? This is your intention.
Your want comes out of lack. It forms the embryo of your vision. It triggers your imagination, which is the womb that nurtures your vision to shape what you want to create.
If you know you can have it by existing means available, it is not really a vision, just a to-do list. A true vision comes from something that did not exist before.
Once you see it done, the vision is yours. You already have it inside. While living and growing the vision in the womb of your imagination, you carry out your daily activities with due diligence and a heightened sense of awareness and expectation. And, because you actually see it done already, the Universe gets to work to bring you all the needed tools. Manifestation is your vision being born in the physical world.
The great teachers, east and west say the same thing. For example, Jesus of Nazareth said, ” What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” (Mark 11:24)
And this is how truly successful entrepreneurs live; with certainty and awakened Consciousness.
Raising Your Belief Level
The power of the universe is inside you. Do you see it? Are you nurturing your vision? You can harness this power only when you are living and creating from your authentic self. When you are in that energy, the vision will develop.
More importantly, you need to work on your own personality. And that is where the real work begins because your environment, your upbringing and your ingrained habits interpret that want and tell you that you cannot have it, because it is beyond your current means.
We have to really believe in what we want and not make-believe it. Tulshi Sen, author of Ancient Secrets Of Success For Today’s World says, “To train the mind to believe we create out of no-thing is our mission in life.” The mind cannot vision. It can only project the future based on our past and present conditions. We have to convince the mind to obey our heart, our consciousness.
That is where the four proclamations come in. These simple meditative practices transform the personality by freeing the mind from past conditioning, current limitations and fear of the future.
You cannot effectively use the mind to convince the mind. You have to transcend the mind with the deep insights from consciousness. And that is an inner journey.
Nurturing Your Inner Environment
Look inside your own heart for the answers to what you want for your business and your own development. When we believe that in the want is the power of the Universe with all its means, then we can get it. As Tulshi Sen says, ” Every desire carries its own mathematics with it. It has all the means in it, if we can really believe in it.” All contradictions will melt away.
I have found that when I get caught up too much in my head, I get overwhelmed by choices and decisions that need to be made. A part of me just wants to escape and I either delay taking relevant action or end up reversing decisions made under scarcity pressures. It is a waste of energy, time and money.
It is only when I get back into my heart by surrendering to my Consciousness, do I find the peace and clarity to move forward again. That is where real power lies. Appropriate action will come as a natural response to a raised belief level. Then I can see opportunities and self-development choices from a whole new vantage point. That is when I and my vision become one.
The Universe does not make mistakes. But the mind frequently misses the mark unless the belief level is raised by our consciousness.
Know Why You Want It
We can begin by questioning our own motives for creating what we want to create. We do this from the place of knowing that everything we need is there to manifest what our heart wants. The universe is just waiting for us to uncover, focus and hold fast to what we want.
When we know what we really want and believe it in our heart, the means will present itself. It is the Law of the Universe.
Keep asking yourself, “What is my deep burning desire?” Desire is not a lament. It is a promise waiting to be fulfilled by the power of your Vision.
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Aditi Walsh is a conscious entrepreneur. She helps people create and manifest their visions of success, sharing success principles, strategies and tools at WebMarketingRebel blog.
How to Build Credibility and Leadership Through Hybrid Book Publishing Strategies
Do you have a book inside you? More and more online entrepreneurs are recognizing that to be seen as being a recognized expert in their field, they need to be published authors as well. Armand Morin’s interview with Chris Guerriero, revealed important insights about what is happening in the book publishing industry.
Book Publishing Paradigm Shift
The book publishing world is undergoing strong paradigm shifting dynamics. Today there are relatively fewer examples of authors making large scale sales using the traditional book marketing approaches.
And although there are many more examples of successful e-book sales, it’s extremely difficult to get mass market sales volumes using digital publishing alone.
The best approach is to do both physical and digital publishing. For online information marketers, it makes sense to start with a digital book supported by other online marketing strategies directed to your target audience.
This provides a wonderful, flexible media for testing, fine-tuning and upgrading your content and promotions, while sales are coming in. Here’s where you get to develop and test your marketing funnel system. You’ll learn so much by asking for feedback, special requests and providing timely, focused and specific offerings highly targeted to your audience needs and wants. And, it’s very cost-effective to make adjustments and changes at this stage of the process.
Your Published Physical Book Leverages Your Digital Book Sales
Proceeds from the digital sales can then be used to physically publish the hardcover version. When authors have a hardcover version of their book available, it is much easier to build credibility and recognition. People still like to experience the author face to face and in public settings where the author is engaging with them in some way, whether it’s at a book signing, a trade show or at seminars they may be giving.
However, viral sales and much more profitable book sales are achieved through a carefully positioned online marketing strategy supported by your offline book marketing publishing activities.
And you can never lose the credibility leverage when you have a hardcover version of your book. It actually attracts much larger digital book sales while helping you build your lucrative e-business. Your digital e-book can also effectively pre-sell your interested info reader for higher value products and services in your marketing funnel. You are building long term relationships that will serve you well long into the future.
Today, more than ever before, you can learn how to get your book rapidly created, use it to establish your expertise and turn those books into a successful e-business.
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Aditi Walsh is a conscious entrepreneur. She helps people create and manifest their visions of success, sharing success principles, strategies and tools at WebMarketingRebel blog.
Entrepreneur, Are You Unleashing Your Power To Create What You Truly Desire?
This question conjures up a whole new way of looking at entrepreneurship, doesn’t it?
It may inspire some of you to take a deep breath and then immediately get to work on making it happen, or re-doubling your current efforts to create the business of your dreams.
Others may ask, “What do I need to do to build up my power and ability to take the appropriate actions to make my desires come true.” For instance, you may re-focus on your vision and strategic plans (or create them if not yet done). You may look for weak areas to strengthen and make a checklist of what you need to prioritize or delegate.
Still others among you may be puzzled by the question, because you’re not focused on what you truly desire to bring forth. Instead, you’re busy creating what can put money in your pocket and food on the table. Maybe you are expressing your deepest desires in the form of a hobby, part-time or weekend activity.
And some of you just don’t believe you can create a successful business around what you truly love to do. Instead you work from a contingency plan mentality, preparing for worst case scenarios and rainy days.
Did You Choose Your Thoughts?
But whatever scenario describes your current thinking, there’s even a more fundamental aspect to consider. Who chose your predominant thoughts about your business? Did you? Or were these thoughts chosen for you? Did they come from your heart, or were you hedging your bets?
Don’t blame yourself, you’ve been conditioned from childhood. And, how can you be successful when you are surrounded by people who will pull you down or play devil’s advocate with your dreams? These people are most often not your enemies or competitors but those closest to you, friends and family.
Just about every entrepreneur has lived or currently lives under these restricting pressures. I call them the ‘doubt traps’. The trick is to look for the gems of truth and wisdom, while rejecting the fear-based advice.
Question is, can you think the thoughts YOU want to think? And can you carry those thoughts and ideas through to a successful implementation? This means living your vision, without being bombarded or bamboozled by others who believe they have your best interests at heart.
What Is Your Belief Level?
When you can see no difference between your thoughts and the things you are creating, between your desires and the manifestation of your desires, then you have become a successful entrepreneur. In order to do that you need to raise your belief level so that you can even think the thoughts you want to think.
The mind must defer to heart consciousness to get its direction. And the heart thinks in pictures and symbols not mere words. This gives meaning, emotion and feelings to the thoughts. It makes them come alive in sights and sounds and adds the other senses for full expression and experience. Even the wise Solomon said, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Yantra Tools To Raise The Belief Level
Ancient masters like Pythagoras to modern psychologists like Carl Jung, understood the challenges of people sincerely wanting to change their lives for the better. So in deep contemplation and meditation they created inspired active graphical imagery called yantras to help their students and clients unlock old beliefs and unleash their power to vision and create from the deepest desires of their heart.
These yantra tools for accessing inner wisdom and vision were used by kings, sages, business leaders and even the Founding Fathers of America. The concept has been around for 4500 years and used by leaders in battlefields and boardrooms. It is as relevant today as it was in ancient times.
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Aditi Walsh is a conscious entrepreneur. She helps people create and manifest their visions of success, sharing success principles, strategies and tools at WebMarketingRebel blog.
Entrepreneur, Do You Believe You Will Have Whatever You Vision?
The successful ones carry their vision with them everywhere and at all times. Their vision has become a part of them. Great leaders made huge sacrifices to get to this level of success. They now embody their vision. Albeit, some do wear a few battle scars, as badges of honor, marking the challenges they faced and conquered along the way.
These entrepreneurs will tell you it was worth every pain and opposition, because it pushed them forward in the direction of their dreams. Problems became stepping stones to discover their true expression in a particular product, service or purpose, as the case may be.
Question is, are you fired up about your vision? Do you feel it in your bones? And, are you able to sustain your vision?
Are You Stuck?
Most people get tangled up at this stage. Many entrepreneurs do manage to set their vision and goals. Then almost immediately, powerful opposing forces set in to test them or slowly tear away at those dreams. It may take the form of well meaning friends and family or the current economic environment. Even more dangerously, their own doubts and fears take over.
You need to continually ask yourself, what are you visioning? If you find yourself picturing that you can’t have your beloved vision for whatever reason, then you have lost your belief, haven’t you?
So how can you continually believe you will have whatever you vision?
All the masters and teachers of all ages say the same thing: that whatever you can vision and believe in, you will have.
Secret Of Success
The real secret is to raise your belief level to desire what you could only fantasize before and previously hold as a vision for only a few seconds or two. You are, in effect, training yourself to become more resilient. And when you become more resilient, you don’t need the level of security you thought you would. You are ready to step out there, beyond the fears that used to hold you back, and make your mark in the world.
Raising your belief level increases your happiness quotient, your self-love and resilience. What has love got to do with it, you may ask? Everything actually!
Low self-love breeds low self-esteem and you become afraid. As Tulshi Sen says, “You don’t get what you want, you get what you are.” Are you afraid that you are not good enough? Can you let yourself imagine what your heart is longing to express and contribute in your world? Will you allow yourself to experience the romance of self and extend that to your business and your life?
Your intention, to be all you can be, comes out of your consciousness and is the fire of your desires. It sparks your imagination to create the visions you want to manifest.
Imagination Is Your True Power
Now, your belief level reflects your capacity to imagine. It can either enhance the process or shut it down. When you feel romance, you lose all fear and believe you can be, do and have your heart’s desires. You create new visions out of your active imagery that has been unleashed. Your imagination is your true power, your only power. Even Einstein said that imagination is greater than knowledge.
For most people, the imagination has been locked up in a padlock and needs a Master Key to open it up again, and to keep you on track. The great philosophers and leaders throughout the ages successfully utilized graphical active imagery to keep their imaginations and resourcefulness intact during times of crisis and change.
This Master Key lives inside your heart and when unleashed you can boldly go where you have never gone before.
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Aditi Walsh is a conscious entrepreneur. She helps people create and manifest their visions of success, sharing success principles, strategies and tools at WebMarketingRebel blog.