Note from Diane Armitage: Hello everyone and welcome to 2010! I’m glad you’re enjoying the MentorsOnLove.com site – it’s something I do in joint partnership with these wonderful spiritual mentors. I’ve worked with Bob Proctor since 1995, and was actually just on the phone with him this morning, talking about this blog. We’ve decided to pay more attention to it this year – :-> – and he’s also asked me to chime in occasionally with my own blog posts from clients who ask about similarly-related subjects.

As so many of you are focused on a bright new year of possibility ahead of you, I’m copying my own blog post to this in hopes that it helps you further your dream this year.

Q for Diane Armitage: In one of your older blog posts you talked about the difference between goals and affirmations, and mentioned you write out your affirmations every morning, soo, here is the question:  Do you write them with pen and ink, or type them on the computer?  Have you found it makes a difference either way?

A: As it’s the New Year, I have a lot of clients coming to me with similar questions, so let’s do a quick review. . . . everything I’m stating here is what I’ve learned personally from Secret Teacher Bob Proctor – he’s been my client for several years now, but what a fabulous mentor he’s been through it all.

It’s important that you write down EVERY goal/dream you have for yourself in every category of your life – Spiritual Goals, Physical Goals, Business Goals, Mental Goals, etc. Make sure you don’t square yourself in with what you KNOW you can accomplish – that’s no goal, that’s just something you already know how to do! Keep the gargantuan and seemingly-unworkable in mind and write those down, too. I mean . . . come on . . . you want CHANGE, right?

Then, prioritize each goal in its own category. As I’ve noted before, don’t prioritize based on what you THINK will be the timeframe to achieve. The universe could care less about your timeline. Prioritize based on what you believe is most important for you to achieve FIRST.

Once you have your priorities, narrow down again to the one or two goals that stand out above all the others. I tell clients to pay attention to how each one feels – if you feel a sense of urgency or other emotion wrapped around it, that’s a good indicator it needs to be one of your two biggies – even if it seems impossible to achieve.

These two, then, become your affirmations. Bob Proctor taught me a long time ago to only focus on no more than TWO affirmations/goals at a time. It takes a lot of mental presence to achieve any goal as it requires serious reprogramming and movement past paradigms in your head that have kept you from achieving this goal thusfar.

Now, it’s time to begin affirming the one or two goals each and every day, several times a day. Bob Proctor taught me to get up a half hour earlier than my usual waking hour, pull out a journal and write each affirmation at least 20 times. No shortcuts. No skipping words. (I have a funny story from my own life and an ensuing conversation with a frustrated Bob that I’ll have to relay some day about skipping words.) He told me to do the same every night so that the goal would be there in my head all night long, working its magic. There’s more alchemy to this than I’m giving room for in this blog – and something I can address in a later blog. I found that taking a break mid-day and pulling out that journal AGAIN really kept me focused and in the right mindset throughout the day.

Yes, write your affirmations daily. Don’t type them. Just as you know receiving a hand-written holiday card means more than receiving an emailed holiday card, an affirmation takes on greater meaning and significance in your life through the process of handwriting. When I asked Bob Proctor about this years ago, he told me that its significance lies actually in the mechanics required for handwriting and its mind connection. Anyone can type blindly away, rushing through the project, not even seeing the letters or words. It’s a different animal when you hand write each and every affirmation 20 . . . 40 . . . 80 times a day – you’ll see what I mean.

And, before we move on from this post, remember this very important thing: You’re setting yourself up for tremendous movement forward by doing all of the above, but you’re not going to reach that goal without taking steps toward that goal. When it’s a really big gargantuan goal, you might feel overwhelmed at what, exactly to do. After all, if it’s a biggie, you don’t know HOW to do it . . . . but you have to start somewhere. It’s important that you signal all the energies out there, and all the energies in yourself that you mean business. Think through the initial action steps you can take, no matter how small. Then TAKE those steps. As Rev. Michael Beckwith so beautifully stated in The Secret, “take those steps and the way will unfold before you.”

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