Tips for Overcoming Barriers Standing Between You and Your Goal

Reading your written goals daily will have an uplifting effect on your vision of the future. This vision propels you into action and things start to happen. And if you take advantage of these things as they come along, you will steadily advance towards your chosen goal. But everyone experiences a period, where for some reason, even though the vision is clear and stimulates action, there comes a point where, no matter how hard you try, you seem to have come to a sticking point and can go no further. There is something that does not feel right. Why do you think this is? Is it because you don’t think you’re worth it?rnIs it because you lied when you were younger?rnIs it because your parents withheld their approval?rnIs it because you feel predisposed to a life of toil and struggle?rnNO..it’s because of the memories you have! We all have good and bad memories of situations in our lives. And it’s the memories of certain situations which we store in our brains that have a strong influence on how we progress towards our goals. Part of setting and achieving goals is to visualise the result we desire. But our brain knows the difference between real memories and made up visualisations.rnVisualisations are meant to inspire us, but it’s our memories that control us. And it’s the dominant memories which control our thoughts and influence our actions. If one of your goals is to increase your wealth, you will have both good and bad memories of your situation and fight against past memories that you constantly refer to when you think of money. You may have bad memories of being financially strapped at some point in your life. You felt awful about talking to your bank and putting off paying your bills. You may also have good memories of having the money to be able to afford the things you’ve always wanted or you may have been ‘rather flushed’. You would have remembered feeling like you were on cloud nine, being able to have and do the things you wanted. But of these two situations, the one memory you spend the most time thinking about will dominate the other. The extent to which you recall these events in your life when they happened is the extent to which you think about them now. And it’s these thoughts that keep you rooted to where ever you are now financially. It’s not you, your spouse, your upbringing or even the economy - as bad as it is. It’s the memories of having money or not having money that you think about the most. Spend a lot of time thinking about the embarrassment of being financially broke and also a lot of time thinking how good it feels to have that financial independence, you will automatically start to do the things that will cause your finances to rise. Learning to control your dominant thoughts and understanding how your memories control your actions is key to reaching your goal. We instinctively spend much of our time reflecting on things that were not necessarily pleasant and it’s these thoughts that influence our actions.