Career
Advancement:
Learning
to Set Goals and Achieve Them
One of the most valuable suggestions, which can be
implanted though hypnosis consists of only eight words: “What your mind
can conceive, you can achieve!” There
is no more important message, for the statement can be applied to any goal,
physical, mental, or spiritual. To
achieve the potential implied by the above statement, four elements are
necessary:
DESIRE: The
goal must be important. It must be
really wanted. A casual expression
such as “I’d like to…” is not nearly sufficient.
The desire must be deep and abiding.
BELIEF: It
is vital to believe that the goal is achievable, however improbably it may seem.
Belief is a powerful force capable of performing miracles.
This is not a spiritual requirement.
The belief must be in the self.
EXPECTATION: Hope
won’t do the job. Thinking that
achievement of a goal would be nice is not sufficient.
Expectation is required. Success
is not a matter of “IF,” it is
a matter of “WHEN!” There is no room for doubt.
DEMAND: Finally,
it is essential that the goal-seeker demand of himself/herself the attitudes and
actions necessary to full achievement. As
the saying goes " there ain’t no free lunch!”
Given the above elements, the fact remains: “What your mind can conceive, you can achieve.” The mind conceives through visualization, which comes more easily for some people than others. Yet is can be learned and acquired - hypnosis can help in this - and the benefits last a lifetime. But it is essential to learn how to set and achieve goals. Implanting the procedures and techniques through hypnosis is very helpful.
GOAL SETTING PROBLEMS
Most people have dreams - of success, wealth, love, career
advancement, resolution of problems or whatever. Few carry them through from planning to achievement however.
Learning special techniques under the retention power of hypnosis can
help in the achievement of dreams.
One of the major problems in goal setting and achieving
career advancement has been described as the “Playpen Syndrome.”
It begins virtually at birth, when young children are naturally very
suggestible. They want to be liked.
They learn from parents, teachers and authority figures that if they do what
they are told, they will be liked. If
they create problems, they won’t be liked.
Young children are placed by parents in a playpen where
they are considered safe and out of trouble.
They become comfortable in that environment. They are out of the way; they are fed, changed, watched and
taken care of. And they are liked
because they do not create problems. They
are left in the playpen where their needs are met, they don’t get into trouble
and they are liked but they are not encouraged to learn or advance.
Many children grow up in a playpen. In sports activities they are allowed to play on teams regardless of proficiency at the sport, without real motivation to improve. Later in a working environment unions and other professional organizations and even superiors may cater to their needs, save their jobs regardless of their skills or lack thereof, determine their wages and benefits, fight their battles, etc. And the government itself provides the biggest playpen of all, attempting to meet everyone’s needs and plan the future, without any incentive to become self-sufficient. The playpen syndrome fosters mediocrity, and people and agencies, which want to avoid being bothered by ambition, creativity, new ideas or progress, promote it.
ESCAPE FROM THE PLAYPEN
Hypnotism, through a special programming featuring goal
setting and achievement, provides a way out of the playpen.
Effective goal setting requires both a sense of completion
and reward. The major problem most
people encounter in setting goals is that the goals are all long-term in nature.
A young, new employee decides to be president of the company; a student
wants to become a doctor, lawyer, politician or even president; a goal-setter
even less oriented decides the goal is to become a millionaire and commonly none
of these are ever realized. These
are accomplishment goals. Most
people set them; excuses are easy, failure is frequent, there is no
accountability.
Activity goals form the foundations of success. They
consist of what must be done to reach and accomplishment goals.
They are short term in nature. They
are the steps to success. The
student sets her/his first goal as achieving a credible grade on her/his first
test. Another goal might be passing a mid-term examination.
Still another could be preparation of a final term paper that is
outstanding - steps in earning entrance into medical school, from which, after
completing numerous other activity goals, the accomplishment goal of doctor may
be realized. Each short-term activity goal, once achieved, provides the
essential sense of completion, and motivation to undertake the next step.
And each such completion needs to be accompanied by self-reward and self-recognition of the successful step. The
step-by-step process of sequential short-term activity goals completed and
rewarded forms the pathway to achievement.
A model for success might be as follows:
Set a realistic, achievable accomplishment goal.
Determine its benefits for emotional motivation.
Analyze the obstacles. Determine
available resources including assistance. Design
a plan of action (activity goals). Set
appropriate deadlines, which establishes accountability.
And
finally initiate action.
Goal setting can provide the ladder for escaping from the
playpen. Hypnosis can provide
motivation, confidence, energy, method and insight. 
The ultimate prize: success and the avoidance of mediocrity!
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