How Might My Life Look When I Reach That Goal?
The answer to this question is key to the conscious creation of the goal.
This moment is the only true moment in time.
The now, the present, the here-and-now – this is the only time that is really, truly, real. The past has come and gone. The future is never certain. In the words of Yoda,
“Always in motion is the future.”
Most of us suck at living in the present moment. There is no fault for this, nor blame – it’s just the truth. We don’t recognize that right now, this precise moment of time is the only truly legit and real time.
Why? Because the past is colored by our experiences, biases, prejudices, environments, and numerous other factors. Likewise, the future is often massively uncertain and will be impacted by lots of unknowns along the way. For example – a global pandemic, pointless war, inflation, and so on.
That doesn’t mean that we can’t learn lessons from the past. We really, really should. (Maybe if we did, we’d stop making some of the same mistakes over and over and over again). But that’s beside the point.
Similarly, it’s good to make plans and have goals for the future. These give us the drive and desire to find and/or create change. They open the way to direct our lives and take control over what we can of them.
But therein lies a problem. So long as the goal is in the future – and we approach it as such – it will stay there.
Why does it matter if the goal stays in the future?
Have you ever set a time in the future that you would do a thing? And have you attached that thing to a specific goal? Like you’d take a cruise if you lost 20 pounds, buy a new car if you quit smoking, treat yourself to a spa day if you cleaned the garage, and so on?
Sometimes incentives of this nature can spur us into action. Other times, they can make the goal more unreachable.
The problem with or without the incentive is setting the goal in the future. Specifically, seeing the goal as coming, not yet here, on the way, and so on.
This creates a tightrope of a sort to walk. Yes, having a goal to reach can be great. But when it’s always ahead, and always in the future – that’s the place you’ve made it live.
Consciousness creates reality. What we believe is what we experience in life. When we see ourselves as incapable, limited, and similar negatives – that tends to be what we get.
This might seem like a whole bunch of hooky-spooky mumbo-jumbo. But in my experience – it’s still true.
For example – when I was recovering from injuries after getting hit by a car crossing a street 22 years ago, I didn’t see myself as “healing”. Nor did I attach any time to my recovery. Nope. I only saw myself completely healed, unbroken, and as capable as I was before my accident.
It was never ahead or in the future – as far as I was concerned, it simply was. Period, end of story.
I’m convinced that in addition to having amazing doctors and therapists, this was why I healed as swiftly and completely as I did. I lived for the moment with my future goal already achieved in my mind, body, and soul.
Bring the future to the now
That wasn’t the only time I consciously created my reality in this way. There were other times in my life when I saw the goal I desired to achieve as already reached.
This has applied to relationships, acquiring a car when I couldn’t realistically work out how that would be possible, and other minor and major events.
If I had not done it before, if I have not seen this with my own eyes – I’d call shenanigans. No way does this garbage work.
Except that I know for a fact that it does.
The problem with this is that to many people, it seems like bullshit. You can’t live in a future that’s not real.
It’s not bullshit. You can make it happen. If you choose to do so.
Make it happen
There are 7 important things to acknowledge about how we can bring the future to the now and make a goal that’s truly ahead of us be present in our heart, head, and soul here and now.
- This can be only about you. You have zero control of anyone or anything else. Thus – much as it would be great – world peace is right out.
- This is not selfish. Yes, it’s all about you – but since your intent should be to do no harm, it’s not selfish of you to work on this goal.
- You must wholeheartedly desire this. Deeply. Intensely. Not “it would be great if” or “wouldn’t it be nice if” – but wholly, totally, fully, gung-ho intentional. Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead!
- No exceptions. No second-guesses. Zero maybes. This is how it will be. You must envision it with that degree of clarity to make it so.
- Release doubt and fear. When you feel doubt or fear creep up on you, they must be released immediately. If not – they will derail you and pull the goal out of your grasp. You will have moments of doubt and fear – but in those moments release them without hesitation.
- Keep it to yourself. There is nothing wrong with sharing the goal as intended. But every step of the way – let it simply be. Because this tends to make people call shenanigans and bullshit on the process – unintentionally they’ll derail you. Just do it – don’t discuss it in detail.
- Surrender to the Universe. Last but not least – accept it as done. Surrendering to the Universe can be challenging because it feels like letting go of control. But it’s not. It’s allowing the needful to occur.
All of these are key to making the goal of tomorrow the reality of today.
How might my life look when I reach the goal?
Before you set any of this in motion – the question should be asked and answered.
Otherwise – how can consciousness create the reality if you’ve no idea what it might look like?
The thing is – it can’t be utterly detailed and specific. Why? Because it’s possible that as good as you can envision – you might get better.
So – how might my life look when I reach the goal? For me, this is the answer to the question.
- I am financially secure.
- My financial security allows me to give more to worthy causes, as well as help my friends and loved ones.
- The books and blogs I write help many, many people. They make their lives better. Creatively, mindfully, or both.
- I guest on multiple podcasts.
- People want me as a speaker at conventions and other events – online or in person.
- I find new ways to help make other people’s lives better.
- Every day offers new potential and possibilities – and I create freely.
Yeah, it’s both specific and vague. But this goal is not my life at this moment. Partially, to be sure. But not quite there.
And that’s the real issue. Partially, but not quite. I desire to move past not quite to YES.
How? If I knew that I’d be there now.
What I do know is that I have the power to take my goal and pull it from nearly arrived at to viewed from being here, with it, now.
The goal remains in the future so long as I leave it there, ahead of me. But by working consciously with the here-and-now – it’s possible to make it real. Now. I’ve done it before – so I can do it again.
No time like the present to begin.
How would your life look if you saw your goal for the future in the now?
This is the five-hundred and thirty-third exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are my ideas for – and experiences with – using mindfulness and positivity to walk along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world and empower as many people as I can with conscious reality creation.
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