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A Goal is a Dream Come True - Eventually
Trust me - Jan
© Dr Janet Hall
Have you ever written down a goal and put the bit of paper aside but every now and then you saw it and wondered if it would ever come true?
We goals experts teach that "a goal is a dream with a deadline". You should specify a date by which you hope that your target will be met. If you do this you can chart your course and pace yourself to achieve your goal. It's believed that if you write down your goal and the expected date for achieving it, the universe actually helps by speeding up the process and you get your goal much sooner than you think.
But you can't always set a date for a goal. Sometimes it feels just like wishful thinking. In 1991 I was a very sad newly-single mother of two but I was determined to be successful on my own. As a member of National Speakers association Australia,
I used to listen to tapes which were sent to us from USA. On one tape I heard Layne Longfellow, who is a riveting and very successful speaker, and he said that "the best gig" you could ever get, was to be invited to speak at the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) annual conference. You couldn't go and ask to speak for MDRT, you had to be invited.
In those days there was no internet for me to look up MDRT, so I just believed it was a great goal and I wrote it down - without a deadline. I made an audiotape where I read out my list of goals, including the MDRT goal, and would listen to it as I went to sleep at night.
As the years passed I read my list of goals every New Year and noted that some had come true. I was presenting on radio and television regularly. I had developed audio-programs and written books that were selling consistently. As a speaker I had presented on topics ranging from parenting to conflict resolution and of course goal-setting. I had written the manual for a software program called GoalMaker.
And there were learnings about trusting the wrong people and not having sensible personal judgement with investment in various projects. We live we learn.
Now here's where I begin to get tingles down my spine. Seventeen years later I went to my laptop on a cold dark winter's morning and opened an email which said "You have been invited to speak at the Million Dollar round Table in Indianapolis, USA in June 2009". The speaker-seeker had found me on the web!
The topic?
Great Sex in a Loving Relationship!
It took seventeen years for this goal to become a reality, all by itself. How beautiful is that? I am blessed indeed and I thank the power of the written goal.
Contact: Dr Janet Hall
Richmond Hill Psychology
Phone: 03 94193010
www.drjanethall.com.au
Dr J is a Money & You® Grad from 1989