Ever set a goal or form an intention and end up getting the opposite of what you want?
An athlete who is playing a sport of accuracy, such as golf, tennis, bowling and baseball, often finds out that whatever he or she intends may actually end up being the worst thing to focus on because it rarely, if ever, happens.
Try to sink a putt and you’ll miss. Try to hit a homerun and you’ll hit a ground ball. Try to serve an ace and you’ll fault.
Strange but true.
And it’s not just the word “try” that is the problem with these intentions.
It’s the reality that many goals are similar to the perceived “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow. You chase after them only to end up with nothing but feelings of emptiness.
The same is true of money. When you chase after money, it runs faster.
This is why people who understand the secrets of accumulating money never use the word “chase”or “push” in their description of the process.
Neither do they advocate doing nothing but “thinking.”
How you think is part of the equation. It’s the first and most important part.
Another part, though, is WHAT you’re thinking about – and chances are excellent that if you focus on a homerun when it comes to money, you’ll flop and fail.
Great athletes learn to focus on a process. In fact, for the most part, the process, the daily goal, the small action steps, the change in habits… these become the major goals and the desired outcome is minimized.
Yes, you still have a desire to have more, do more and be more – it’s just that you understand your mental images and the habits you implement from those images are what is going to move you forward. This means you’re far better off focusing on your habits. Period.
A high school baseball player I worked with had a goal to bat .400. He finished the season at .203.
The following year he set the same goal of .400. He batted .224.
The next year, he listened to my advice and set no goal whatsoever in terms of batting average. Instead he worked on the self-image techniques I taught him on how to focus on the process.
He batted .506 that year,
Hmmmmmmmm.
You read it here first, my friend.
Make the process the major goal – and you can work miracles.
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
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