Testing your goals
Life is constantly testing you. But you can test life as well.
I’ve long held that you work for your own Freedom first (“Want Freedom more than you want the World.”) And then take up goals in order to find other stuff to release.
But then I found that some of the goals I was seeking actually took me off getting Freedom.
Because I hadn’t realized that getting Freedom itself was a goal.
Now, in a related scenario, mob grazing takes you right into Holistic Management, which also maintains something they call “holisticgoal” as a test datum to run your life by.
From what I’ve been able to determine, this holisticgoal is a comprehensive overall goal which includes quality of life metrics and sustainability issues you wish to solve. To that degree, this is actually a method which is good for someone (or any family) which doesn’t even own a front yard, much less cattle.
The people at Holistic Management say to simply use this holisticgoal to test every action you do in life. Does as little as the choice of spending money to buy donuts move you toward that improved life style you want for yourself and your family? Much less than deciding the bigger issues you face daily, but the same action.
You’ll see that this is also part of Covey’s use of mission statements, and incorporates Napoleon Hill’s “Burning Desire” concept.
It’s not just a Have goal, but really contains all the elements of Be-Do-Have in order to be comprehensive and complete. Example: “Getting Rich” will need specifics of how much and by when. But Hill also mentions that you are going to have to have planning to back that up which will also have your Do steps. And you are changing your basic Beingness as part of this, so you should also know as part of this at least the greater certainty you are going to have to adopt in order to pull this all off.
And improved beingness is at the heart of everything self-help covers. That is what Levenson’s releasing technique is all about, after all. The only thing holding you back form doing and having everything you want are your own additive desires, feelings, and thoughts. Let these go and then everything you could possibly want to have, do, or be simply shows up.
That is why I consider Lester Levenson and what he discovered to be the basic underlying technique for all self-help. And why my own research is complete with this last book I’m publishing and promoting, “Freedom Is – (period.)”
I just had to find out that these goals I was chasing had stirred up enough to release that my own overall goal of achieving personal Freedom had been eclipsed. When I saw myself no longer maintaining a constant level of joy and happiness, I knew that some of my action steps were incorrect – my emphasis was off.
So I went back to basics again, and simply started wholesale releasing in order to get back to my base. This meant the idea of pushing goals works as a release process – but also that you need to ensure that your overall goal is also kept in mind. Sure, when you achieve that, then everything else is a piece of cake. But you can also set goals, make them, and then set another. Earl Nightingale talks about this with his “Lead the Field” series, but there are essays in his “On Success” book that introduce the concept.
Goals are key, and can’t be understated.
I’m doing more research into Hale Dwoskin’s and Larry Crane’s Goals Releasing Techniques and will post as I find this data, to be sure.
Since this one rose up and hit me in the teeth, I thought to let you know soonest.
Luck with your own Goals!
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