Goals help you to focus your time, talents and resources on achieving a meaningful outcome that reflects the life you desire. They are milestones that guide you to realize your dreams. They provide a vision and direction to your life’s activities so that you can focus more of your potential into accomplishing a singular endeavor.

Goals also help you to search out opportunities, bring to light possibilities, and create a sense of purpose that defines what you do with your life. And there is a way for you to program your goals into your mind so that you are unconsciously, automatically, driven and positioned to make your goal happen. There is a way to attract your attention to just the right opportunities that can bring your goal to fruition. There is a way to draw to you people and resources that will make your goal more likely to happen.

And in this lesson, you will learn …

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Putting a Goal in Your Future

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Audio Length:  39 minutes, 59 seconds

Mastery Activities: You now know how to put a goal into your future so that it happens. Now it’s time to practice doing it…

NLP Mastery Activity: Choosing Your Most Important Goals

How we approach “time” is crucial to how we experience our world, what we accomplish in our lives, and how we feel during life’s everyday moments. Sometimes, we are reliving and reflecting on the past. Other times, we are immersed in the present. And still at other times, we are imagining and planning for our future.

Each of these approaches has strengths and weaknesses. Each has its time and place to shine. The past connects us and teaches us. The present engages us and frees us. The future inspires us and empowers us.

The key is to master using these approaches when they can best give us what we need to achieve the life we desire. And in this lesson, you will begin to learn how…

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Adjusting Your Timeline

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Audio Length:  22 minutes, 9 seconds

Mastery Activities: You now know how to change your connection to time. Now it’s time to practice doing it…

NLP Mastery Activity: Experiencing a New Approach to Time

Anxiety about the future prevents us from creating the future we desire. When we imagine negative outcomes for our lives, we draw those outcomes toward us. Our minds begin to look for them, expect them, and act in a way that makes them more likely to happen. When we feel the feelings of anxiety, our performance deteriorates, our ability to act diminishes, and we are unable to bring our full selves into the moment-to-moment creating of our lives.

The future is uncertain. That is part of its wonder and its potential. That is what brings excitement and meaning. What kind of life would we experience if our future were predetermined and known? Uncertainty is exhilarating. Uncertainty is adventure. Uncertainty gives freedom.

And while preparing for different possible futures can certainly build confidence in our abilities to adapt and master those futures, imagining the future that you desire is critical to harnessing your potential to create that future.

So let’s discover how to transform anxiety into confidence, how to take worry and make it into positivity now…

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Releasing Anxiety

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Audio Length:  22 minutes, 46 seconds

Mastery Activities: You now know how to release your anxiety. Now it’s time to let your anxiety go…

NLP Mastery Activity: Understanding Anxiety in Your Life

Limiting beliefs limit our lives. They affect what we believe is possible and blind us to opportunities. They hold us back, stunt our potential, diminish our performance, and lead to sabotage.

The path to our dreams and the realization of our potential could be right before us, it could be there for the taking, but if our beliefs are limited we may not see it there, we may not grasp its possibility, we may not plunge into its opportunity, and we may not elevate ourselves to the greatness that it calls from within us.

But beliefs can open up and change. They do open up and change. And we have the ability to initiate that change. When we do, worlds open up, relationships deepen and strengthen, and our potential rises to the surface. We become life makers instead of life takers.

And here you can take a step to start making that happen…

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Releasing Limiting Decisions

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Audio Length:  34 minutes, 49 seconds

Mastery Activities: You now know how to release your limiting beliefs. To reap the benefits of this knowledge and transform the way you perceive yourself and the world, it’s time to practice putting that knowledge to use…

NLP Mastery Activity: Uncovering the Beliefs that Limit Your Life

Negative emotions come in many shapes and sizes, and while there are some core basic emotions that most of us have felt at some point in our lives, we each have a different emotional profile, experiencing some emotions more and other emotions less than the average person.

In fact, as you’ve been releasing emotions during the activities over the last couple of weeks, you may have noticed that some releases were stronger and more profound. This may be because those emotions are very relevant to your current life. However, it may also be because those emotions have been more prevalent to your whole life.

The negative emotions we’ve released thus far may also not be the only ones that are significant to your well-being. So it is now time to clean out more of the negativity that has accumulated in your emotional life…

Look at the list of negative emotions that you listed during the first activity for this lesson. Are there any emotions listed that we have not released during the previous activities? As you think about your life from a new perspective, are there any other negative emotions that you experience in your life and want to let go? If so, make a list of them.

And here are some others that may be relevant for you:

• jealousy
• envy
• frustration
• resentment
• rejection
• hopelessness
• victimized
• abused
• cheated
• betrayal
• irritation
• disappointment

Over the next two days, use your new skills to release whatever negative emotions have detracted from your life. And then, enjoy your newfound emotional freedom!

Shame is seen by many to be one of the most debilitating of emotions. Why might that be?

Perhaps because shame strikes right at the “okayness” of who we are. Perhaps because it calls into question the basic value, acceptability, and integrity of our identity.  And given that your identity is the core essence of you as the creator of your world, when your identity is tarnished, it can weigh you done enormously.

To truly feel free to be who you are, releasing shame is therefore critical. So let’s get to it now…

Hurt hurts. And to prevent feeling that hurt, we sometimes close down and shield ourselves off from the potential “hurters” that might exist out there in the world. But in closing down, we also limit our opportunities to grow and to form relationships that will help our growth and fulfill our lives.

So to open your life, connect more deeply with others, and improve the opportunities you see in society, it’s time to release your hurt…

Guilt keeps you in the past when you should be moving on to a better future. It keeps you focused on past actions instead of new actions.

We always have the opportunity to evolve. We always have the opportunity to learn. And our mistakes, inadequacies, and intentional harms give us the opportunity to do that evolving through learning.

So release your guilt to move into a new future…

Fear paralyzes action. Fear hampers abilities. Fear clouds judgment. Fear stops you from moving forward toward achieving what you desire in life.

If you want to unleash your courage to take action, if you want to enhance your ability to succeed, if you want to stimulate your creativity and adaptability, it’s time to release your fear now…

Sadness can be a very painful emotion and can have a very disheartening effect on our lives. When it pervades our everyday experience, it can depress the things that bring us joy and lower our ability to perform the activities we love. In this way, as sadness grows, it can become a vacuum that sucks away the things we value.

So it’s time to release your sadness and experience the meaning and joys you’ve held inside…