Goalcards… too simple for words

Amazingly, we have reached week 9 (The Sub-Conscious Mind) already in our reading through ‘Think and Grow Rich”. The pace has quickened I feel, as the dynamics of our MasterMind Group have started to take on their own momentum. Between meetings, we all seem to be connecting and contacting each other regularly, dare I say relying on each others’ support, advice and skills.

By now, we’ve all written our goalcards to read to ourselves out loud twice a day as instructed, though some are happier than others with what we’ve written. Personally, I’ve now got two goalcards – how did that happen? One I wrote weeks ago on a tiny card I’ve been carrying around with me.

The other one is a five-point goalcard, a to-do suggested by Paul Martinelli of Life Success Inc. as part of Week 5’s session on Autosuggestion. It includes goals for the wealth, professional and personal development, relationships, physical health and spirituality. So, from the simple goalcard I started with, this one has expanded the vision of where I see myself, increased the detail in the picture – all positive things.

Except, it’s taken me over two weeks to actually write this 5-point card, and in the meantime I didn’t read my original card, so in effect my 90 day trial can only start from now! Well, it couldn’t be that simple to make this all work, could it?

Also, to complicate things further, this week, I’ve hit Procrastination and Indecision big time – two things that Napoleon Hill warns you about when you read “Think and Grow Rich”, for example: “Life is a chessboard, and the player opposite you is TIME. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move thoughtfully and decisively, your pieces will be wiped off the board by TIME. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate INDECISION!” (p273)

I can’t decide which main goal is more important to focus my energy on and take action towards – how self-createdly ridiculous! Some of us are such experts at self-sabotage. So, rather than simplify things, in reaction to these goalcards, I’ve thrown myself into a whirlpool of fear and indecision.

Bob Proctor has a great article about making decisions. “Create or disintegrate” he says. “Indecision causes disintegration… Decision makers are not afraid of making an error. If and when they make an error in their decision, or fail at something, they have the ability to shrug it off. They learn from the exerience, but they will never submit to the failure.”

In addition to the goalcard(s), I need to read every day right now too as I’ve hit my terror barrier (money) with focusing on the things I really want to do and I need to go through it. ”Once you make the decision, you will find the money… every time. … All of the money in the world is available to you when the decision is firmly made. If you need money, you will attract it… Be all that you are capable of being” .

So, I intend to rectify this situation promptly, rather than agonize in this limbo of procrastination and make a simple, albeit life-altering decision, by the end of this weekend. Brave words?

Then I can simply get on with reading my goalcard every day, putting plans sparked off by it into action and looking forward to great results within the next 90 days, can’t I?…