Welcome to lesson three, developing goals. Now that we understand what a paradigm is and how to change it, we can start to focus on developing goals. When I first started to learn about goals, I thought it was a very difficult process. Thoughts such as is my goal good enough? Is my goal too small? Or is my goal too big, all went through my head.
It wasn't until I really started to study goals and learn from Bob Proctor how to properly set goals that I became successful. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you the goal setting tools I've learned that can help you make a lasting impact in your life. To start this lesson all I want to address the questions I asked in the beginning of this lesson. The questions you may be asking yourself as well. are my goals good enough? Are they too small, too big?
Here's the thing about those types of questions. They are disempowering. They signify that you don't believe that you were able to accomplish what you set out to accomplish. For a long time I was stuck in the cycle of questioning how I was going to accomplish my goal rather than focusing on actually completing it. When you start to question the house of how a goal will be completed, something that's called a terror barrier is what stops you. I'll talk more about that a little later on in this lesson.
It's one of the main keys to accomplishing your goal. To get back to the form of questions. Most people when they start to create goals focus on the how of the goal, meaning that they think about how they're going to accomplish it. They get caught in the trap of looking at their current results, and current resources and trying to figure out a new way to use what they have to accomplish their goal. I was stuck in this way of thinking for a long time. If you use what I'm about to teach you, you will no longer think of the house and start moving toward the actual completion of your goals.
Before I get into the main lesson, I want you to keep this in mind. The purpose of a goal is not to achieve the thing you are going after. The purpose of a goal is to grow to become a better version of yourself, the thing you get at the end of your goal is the result of the person you have become. Now onto the lesson. As Bob Proctor teaches, there are three types of goals A, B, and C type goals, a type goals, the things you already know how to do. The type of goal that keeps you in your comfort zone.
For example, you decide to go buy a new car, something you've done at least twice before. This doesn't mean you don't get a new car. You can go buy a new car if you want, but you don't grow from it. But you've known from experience how to get a new car because you've done that at least once in the past. These types of goals are safe goals, goals that keep you from taking risks and keep you within your comfort zone. There is no growth attached to an A type goal.
B type goals, the things you think you could do. The person that's in a B type goal pays attention to what's going on around them. They know how much money they've got in the bank. They know how much money is coming in how much is going out. These types of people are the types of people who need to have a plan. They get caught in the cycle of trying to think through their goal by saying things like, well, if this happens, and that happens at this time, and if the money comes in, then I can do that is not really the right type of goal.
No. Why? Because you already see how it's going to happen. You have mapped it out in your mind. So in a sense, a B type goal is much like an A type goal. The only difference between A and a B type goal is that there's a little bit of growth attached to a b type goal.
Not a lot, but a little. For example, let's say your goal was to lose 10 pounds. You could do that if you change your diet, went to the gym, ran a few times a week, etc. Now I'm going to tell you something else. With a B type goal. There is no inspiration.
It's definitely exciting at first, but a B type goal requires continuous willpower to actually accomplish it. And after a while that willpower starts to fade, see type goals, what you really want your biggest dreams and fantasies, you know, when you sit and Daydream and your mind wanders off thinking about your ideal life, you think things like if we could only do this, or if we could only do that there's a problem that comes with this type of goal. And it's that when we Daydream or fantasize like that, we get told that we need to be realistic, that it's completely illogical to think that we could do that. You know, I've heard people say that one person can't change the world. Well, I'll tell you what, one person changed my world. The man I learned this from Bob Proctor.
And do you think that people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, or even going as far back as the Wright brothers were told that they were thinking logically, now you may say, Well, they're different than me. Well, that might be so because they didn't leave their dreams on the table. You may be leaving your dreams on the table, get them off there, start going after what you want. If you own a Microsoft PC, or an apple laptop or an iPad, or if you've recently taken flight for vacation is because one of the three people I listed above thought an illogical idea that could change the world. You have to become emotionally involved with this idea, impressive on your heart and on your subconscious mind. There's a three step process to goal achieving its fantasy theory.
In fact, you've got to build the fantasy first, and it's okay to say that it's just a fantasy. That's where everything starts. Napoleon Hill said that whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve, that's where everything you own now started. Everything that is created starts out as a fantasy to someone, the computer, you're watching this on, the clothes you're wearing, the building that you're in, that all started is someone's fantasy, and then they turn that fantasy