Expand your Vision for 2008!

January 1st, 2008, by Shelley Riutta

Happy New Year to YOU!  I love the start of a New Year–there is both a reflecting on the past year and the exciting visioning of the coming year.  I was out for dinner with friends last night and we were each reflecting on our past year–where our energy and focus had been–and then we shared out intentions and visions for the coming year.  We even wrote these down.  If you haven’t taken the time to write your goals down for the upcoming year–I would suggest you do that. 

 There is a wonderful book titled “Write it down, Make it Happen”–which talks about the power of writing down our goals and what we want in our life.  I was looking at a list of 10 goals that I had written down last year and was surprised at how many of them I achieved. The other goals I wrote were larger, longer range goals–but I do want to challenge myself to actually achieve these in the next year.

  Writing these goals helps to focus our energy. We are creative beings with creative energy flowing through us all of the time.  If we don’t have clear intentions about how we want to channel this energy it more than likely will go into stuck unconscious patterns that hold us back. 

 More and more I see that much of the suffering that people experience is due to a lack of focus and passionate intention. When we are passionately focused on a higher purpose of a dream it galvanizes our energy in a positive direction and opens us up to an even greater flow of positive energy.  A lack of focus on the other hand will guarantee that we will fall back into old, unproductive patterns that limit the energy flow and cause us to feel stuck.

The higher our vision, the more it will lift us up out of old patterns.  So look at your goals for 2008 and see if you can expand your goals to be bigger—even if it scares you. 

 I remember hearing a story about Bob Proctor–the dynamic coach from “The Secret”.  I was talking to a man that had been coached by Bob and when he shared his goal with Bob–Bob asked him how he slept the night before.  The man replied that he slept just fine.  Bob looked at him and said–”Your goal is not big enough–it should both excite and scare you at the same time.” This man’s peacefulness was indicating that he was not stretching himself out of his comfort zone.  He then reworked his goal and shared it with Bob.  Bob asked him how he slept the night before–he said he barely slept at all he was so excited and scared.  “Good” Bob said “You finally found a goal that is worthy of you.”

See if you can expand your goal so it scares you.  I invite you to write your goal in this blog (write it as a comment) as a way to announce it to the world and also as a way to offer inspiration to others as well!

Here are a few of my goals:

1. Become a Master Blogger

2. Write my first E-Book by March 4th (my Birthday)

3. Produce my first guided imagery CD by May 1st.

4. Take Salsa Dance Lessons

5. Take Guitar Lessons

Stay posted—I will be working on expanding my Goals too!

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