The Importance of
Knowing What You Want From Life
Most people never think about what they want in their lives. They live without this knowledge or forethought and become victims of their own circumstance. Work is just about a job – to get by financially. Life becomes a series of issues like choosing to live somewhere because the rent is cheap, never understanding how to be in relationships or becoming ineffectual parents. The list goes on and on. Within yourself there is a craving for more. Is it substance, contact or a deeper understanding of life? No one has ever introduced such people to the concept of endless possibility. “As a man thinketh, so is he.”
A major key to manifesting the life you want is to ponder what you want out of life. What is it that you want to do with your life? A good exercise is to take a piece of paper and write down the answers to the following questions:
* What is my deepest desire?
* What would I like to accomplish in my life?
* What would I like to accomplish this year?
* Where would I like to be in 5 years?
* Where would I like to be in 20 years?
* What am I good at?
Look into all areas of your life:
* Your profession
* Your relationships
* Your health
* Your financial situation
* How you have fun (how you spend your holidays)
Do you Spend Enough Time with your Goals – Are they Important?
After you have written down a list of what you would like to accomplish in your life, you will want to set priorities for them. Just take the list that you wrote down and give each topic 1-5 points. 1 being the least important to 5 points being the most. Now you have priorities in your life, which will help you decide where you want your attention to be.
It is a simple equation: understand simply that you want to spend most of your time with the number one topic on your list. Spend slightly less time with the number two entry on your list – and so on for numbers three through five. There is no need to slice up the day in time slots. Simply by doing this exercise you are programming your consciousness to spend time according to your list.
Let's assume you would like to find your life partner in the next two years, and that this is your primary goal, at the very top of your list. When you check your thought process at the end of the day and you find that you have not spent most of your free time addressing this goal, you have a misalignment, and you may never reach your goal. When this happens simply recognize it and adjust accordingly.
Working all day only to sit on your couch and watch TV will not get you where you want to be. You must take action to manifest your goal(s), for example:
* Take action by signing up for a dance class
* Book a weekend seminar on a subject that intrigues you
* Attend a workshop that focuses on your interest
* Spend time at places where you can meet people
If your goal happens to be that you want to be a millionaire within five years, and you are spending only five minutes of your time each day to accomplish this goal, then don't be surprised if your financial situation never changes.
There is another important aspect of manifestation here that requires consistency. Let's assume you have made your priority lis