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Looking Back on 2006 And Forward to 2007
by Marc De Bruin

A Year's Gone Past

Alright, Christmas 2006 is coming up, the New Year is close by. Party time! Kids are home from school (in Queensland, Australia, where I am, we'll have our little girl home for 7 weeks!), the festivities are around the corner, and it is time to look back, and look forward.

What has happened for you this year? Did you set goals at the beginning of 2006, and if so, how much of them do you feel have you been able to tick off your list? And if you think you didn't set any goals at all, how do you feel you went in 2006? Was it alright? Did you have a good time? Or did you feel slightly directionless, slightly off-track?

Goals

Goals are funny things, really. The one person loves them, and cannot live life without a number of goals always on the go towards fulfilment; the other person hasn't got any affinity with goals and goal setting, and finds them either unnecessary, restricting, or just useless.

Personally, I think we get to hung up on the word "goal", and the meaning many people have assigned to it. I hear a lot of people speak about goals as if goals are these rigid, must-achieve, impossible to reach, frighteningly big monsters. If they actually get to the point that they set a goal, their own belief in the possible achievement is so immensely low, that the whole project of accomplishing the goals is doomed to fail. And all that based upon the meaning they have given to a simple word like "goals".

Many other people don't have as disempowering a vision about goal setting, but still feel that goals restrict their freedom, and that goals must be achieved fully in order to warrant a celebration.

Everything Is Goals

I personally believe that everything (and I mean everything) we do is goal oriented. Waking up and working your way through getting dressed, eating breakfast, and leaving for work is goal setting and achievement. Commuting to work is goal setting. buying your lunch is a goal. Coming back home at night is fulfilment of a goal. Eating dinner, brushing your teeth and going to bed is achievement of goals. The thing is: we usually just don't view them as such.

Human beings are naturally goal-oriented. We can not live without them. If you did not have a goal of providing your family with food and shelter, if you did not have a goal to look out for traffic when you cross a street, if you did not have a goal of bringing your kids up until they're old enough to fend for themselves, then our world would be one chaotic place.....

Goals come forth out of our desires. Desires and beliefs about desires are thoughts. Thoughts never cease to come up in our minds; we are though creating beings. Therefore desires never stop. Desires, wishes, new ideas will be born constantly. Just relax into that statement, and know that because of that, you will always have "goals", whether you want to call them goals or not. As soon as we realise that we constantly, incessantly, are achieving and working on achieving goals, life suddenly takes a whole different meaning.

Some people proclaim: I never reach my goals!!! Well, sorry, that is B.S., Belief Systems. You are constantly, incessantly reaching your goals, from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to bed. Even when you sleep you are achieving a goal, the goal of revitalising, reenergising.

You're A Success!

That's the thought I would like you take away and cherish this Christmas. Acknowledge that whatever you do, wherever you are, you are achieving goals on a continuing basis. You achieve one goal after the other. You are a success on many fronts. Knowing this can make you more appreciative of what you are doing with your life. Do not judge your life based upon the BIG goals you have set only. Do not beat yourself up for the couple of goals you consciously wanted to achieve, but didn't. Also take into account the smaller targets you hit, even when you have not consciously set out to hit them. Say "thank you" for those "subconscious" successes as well. You will engage the Law of Attraction when you do! The more you feel good about your present situation, the more things you will attract in your life that match the "feel good" vibration, which will leave you up with more results you can say "thank you" to.

Set a Landmarc

Firstly, acknowledge your consciously set goals, and observe how much of them you have been able to achieve this year.

Secondly, have a close look at the results you have booked throughout the year, but haven't been acknowledged at all. There are more than plenty of opportunities where you have been successful, without really noticing it.

Thirdly, Make a firm commitment to be more aware of little successes throughout 2007; the more you do, the more successes there will be to acknowledge! Trust me!

Lastly: have fun with it. Break free from the traditional "goal" definition, and from the meaning many people attach to the word "goal". Just see goals as intentions, towards the fulfilment of which you are working. If your intentions work out: Great! If they don't work out (completely): Great too! Then you have more desires and intentions to impress on the quantum soup! Keep at it, and it will be a success!

I look forward to setting some grand goals with you for the new year. I have, together with my friend and fellow coach Scott Armstrong, committed myself to making 2007 the grandest year ever, in many aspects. Why not do the same? Exceed your own expectations! Exceed everyone else's expectations too! You're worth it, and it is do-able. Just trust the always working, never failing Law of Attraction, and you'll ROCK!

Marc is a certified life/business coach, master NLP Practitioner and AusIDentities Personalities Facilitator on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Working as an Executive Business mentor with Glenn Dietzel, Marc is among Australia's Law of Attraction (LOA) experts, and coaches/mentors internationally with the LOA principles in both business and private settings. Marc inspires his clients to create "Knowareness", a powerful state of presence that allows clients to make the right decisions at the right time, all the time. Through powerful Personality Type Profiling techniques, Values Elicitation and Business Positioning tools Marc takes his clients' lives and businesses to massive new heights. Having been a lawyer for nearly 9 years in his “previous life”, before immigrating to Australia from The Netherlands, Marc knows exactly how daunting taking the first step in a new direction can be. On the other hand, he also knows how fulfilling and profitable taking that step can be, and has the knack of imparting his knowledge and wisdom in stunningly simple and highly effective ways. Email Marc at marc@landmarc.info to arrange an introductory 30 minute face-to-face or phone mentoring session! Contact the author, Marc De Bruin , at marc@landmarc.info
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