You can never go beyond your thoughts

Hence you think high. Do not put any limit on what you want to become. This does not mean you need to aim at something irrational or impractical. But if you decide just to make both ends meet and go on  just like that till you die, there is no worse crime.  When you think higher, you go higher. When you visualize higher things you get them.  There is no need to put any limitation on your thinking, on what is possible. There are no limits to the outcomes possible for you. Small goals bring small results; great goals bring great rewards.

Remember before something happens in your real world it should have had happened in your mind.  When you are clear about what you want in life, your mind and body  get programmed to go after and get them. To go beyond your present modest state your minds should experience the higher state now. Then you will create in the real world what you have created inside.

Make a list of your fondest dreams and go through them a number of times. Fix a period for the realization of each one of them.  Pick out the most important goals for this year and run through your abilities (energy level, education, finance, ability to focus and so on—make a detailed inventory) which will enable you to get them realized.  Fill your mind of those experiences wherein these strengths of you were used to the best. Then you analyze what prevents you from getting the things you so badly need. Are you lazy and try to remain in your comfort zone? Do you fail to plan and work the plan?  Do you try so many things that our energy gets dissipated?

Remember everything begins with your thinking. Think like a king. Nobody can stop you from doing so. Action usually comes from your thoughts. Make a step by step plan and start action right away.       

Thoughts become things

Have you ever thought as to how things happen? How do people become sick, poor or successful? Thoughts become things all the time. Not just positive thoughts but negatives ones too. This is good news. We can create what we want.  It is not just limited to attracting material things but also love, joy, pleasure and laughter. Thoughts have energy like everything else in the universe. Even an atom or a grain of sand has a lot of energy in it. Money, house, dress, cars, ships, kitchen equipment, love, affection, anger, hatred, empathy, concern—anything is a condensed form of energy. As energy cannot be created or destroyed the energy of your thoughts gets simply converted into whatever it represents. If you keep the same thoughts for long periods, more and more energy becomes available and the conversion becomes easier. Have you not heard someone say, Be careful of what you wish for, because you might just get it?’ You have heard about the powers of positive thinking.  You may have also heard about the art of visualizing. What is the secret behind all these? Let me put it in 3, short, simple, life changing words?Thoughts are things.  . 
Thoughts and things are related. Things activate thoughts and thoughts activate things.  Thoughts do transform, rearrange, and set into motion the material particles in our brains thereby creating a specific mental state capable of attracting the things our thoughts represent.      
  
Ordinary people think things happen just like that. They don’t. Thoughts produce them 
To demonstrate, just see this: Replace your negative thoughts with positive ones; you will find that undesirable persons and happenings start to disappear and  positive conditions start to appear. Different or disconnected thoughts produce incoherent energies without the power for materialization. That could be the reason why so many thoughts do not materialize’ You wish or daydream something now, the next moment you wish something else . The next day something altogether different comes in. But coherent thoughts produce similar energies. They get stored in your mind and they materialize the things they represent. More forceful and sustained the thoughts, more the energy output. 
Thoughts with conviction have a power of their own. If you have full faith in your thoughts, enormous energy is produced and the materialization becomes almost instant. 
Weak thoughts have little energy and hence they lack the power to materialize. 

You become what you picture constantly

 As the rich picture and see more wealth mentally they become richer. The poor sees poverty, wants and diseases all the time in their inner eye and they become poorer and sicker. Your mental pictures provide motivational guidance and condition your attitudes so that you will act in a guided manner to achieve the objectives you hold in your continuous and persistent thoughts. You become what you repeatedly and intensely picture.

To be effective you have to streamline your thought process and mental pictures. There is a procession of thoughts and pictures passing through your mind continuously. Unless you consciously control the flow of thoughts and pictures, unwanted thoughts and pictures will fill the mental space and your subconscious mind will be all at a loss in guiding you. This failure, in turn, will make you a big zero in life. These uncontrolled thoughts and pictures can be pleasant day-dreams or worry, anxiety, resentment, hatred emotional experiences or situations. The negative thoughts and pictures will become the source of subconscious guidance with disastrous consequences.

 Normally an average human has 70,0000  thoughts passing through his mind in quick succession. If more than 35,000 thoughts are on a single aim for a considerable period, it will be translated into reality. But If the natural mental  process goes uncontrolled no positive picture or thought gets impressed in the subconscious mind even if they prop up occasionally. But the negative pictures of guilt, anxiety, fear, worry and inferiority will predominate too. You need to stop the flow of negative emotional experiences and fear which are highly harmful to your progress and success in life.         

How to control this uncontrolled flow of thoughts and pictures? Relax your body with a few deep breaths, close your eyes and black out all pictures from your mind and fill your mental screen with darkness until your mind is relaxed. Calmly but deliberately replace the temporary darkness with bright and intense mental pictures of what you want to become. Plant constantly these mental pictures to virtually overwhelm the subconscious mind. You have to constantly hold a self image of the person you want to eventually become so that it is etched indelibly into the screen of your mind. You have to intensify the mental picture so that it will be your constant dominant thought and all your principal thinking will relate directly or indirectly to it. 

How to achieve a goal?

A new year is on  and may  be you want to set a goal and achieve the same. First of all let the goal be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant to your situation, realistic and time-bound.  Set your practical goal well beyond what you think you can accomplish.  Write it down in the present tense and the reasons for wanting it.   Writing reinforces thoughts and gives more power to your intentions. Write down too how you would be feeling after achieving it. Also bring to your mind all the past achievements including even your  small wins.  Do list down all your personal strengths that will help you in achieving it.  Decide to analyze your past mistakes and learn from them. Record your goal in an index card and review them twice each day: once just before sleeping and once just after waking up. Once you have set the goal, think about what you can do to accomplish your goal and stay focused on track.   Suppose you want to become the GM of your corporation, list down all your plus points that will propel you to that position. From now to the time limit you have set to achieve the target, note down what you want to achieve at each interval of time.

We all set goals and start in right earnest. But the procrastinator in us fails us.  Hence work towards your goal each day; ask yourself, ‘what can I do today to get one step, however small, closer to achieving my goal?’ Do not lose focus and believe in yourself regardless of how others think. If there are different ways to reach your goal note them down too. ‘I will save 5000 bucks each month’ to buy a million dollar house after 10 years or ‘I will reduce my weight by a Kg a month’ to shed off 10 kg in an year.  Fix deadlines for each step and do not give scope for procrastinating. Close your eyes and visualize your goals as already achieved. Do this often.  No one can tell you exactly what you should do to achieve your goal, but you can seek guidance from those who have done already what you want to do. Learn from the experience of others and incorporate useful hints. Seek help from other people, books, audio, or video programs.  As you go along, believe always that you will achieve what you want and if you stop believing you will certainly fail in your attempts. You need to monitor your journeys with benchmarks or milestones. If you have not reached where you planned to reach, hasten your steps, bring in additional work, time and resources to catch up.  

As you move forward, be careful about your internal communication. Remember whatever you say inside affects you physically, emotionally and mentally. Is your past, limiting beliefs and perceptions a real stumbling block along the way? Start a new positive internal dialogue. Recall all your wins however small they may be and fill your mind with the same. Unless you are passionate about your goal, you will slowly run out of fuel and stop dead on your way. Recharge your batteries and refill fuel tanks with renewed decisions and vigor. Evaluate your journey so far and make the required changes and contingency plans to meet emergencies and setbacks. Let your eyes and ears be open for new opportunities and options that come up along your way. Sometimes they may, unintentionally, lead you to where you want to go.

Some steps may seem less exciting than others but make sure to keep going until the end!  Always stay in a good mood when you pursue your goals; it is  proven goals get finished 2 to 20 times faster when you're in a good or great mood. Imagine your goal getting finished 20 times faster! How easy it will be to focus on a good mood! Things don't always work out as you had planned. Stick to your goals, but be flexible. Often, something will work itself out in a different way than you expected, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad. Don't share your goals with people who might wear you down.

When you're trying to reach a new personal or a professional goal it often means changing what you've been doing so far in your life. And it's so easy to slip back into your old ways - often without being aware of it. Suddenly you realize that you've forgotten all about the goals you set.  No one can achieve them for you without continuous action on your part. You are the only person responsible for achieving them. Make small successes on your way.  Success breeds success - but if you're not careful, perceived failure breeds further perceived failure. Dr Maxwell Maltz was the first person to explain how your self image controls your ability to achieve any goal you set. Keep motivated as you work towards achieving your goal and manage your time well. In general, you will not do anything that will not progress you towards the desired goal. You can find time management tips and vital motivational tools  from self help books, and articles. Good luck!