If you want to achieve your goal, you have to turn desire into firm intention. Dreams don’t come true. Stop longing for your goal. If you hold the intention, it is already yours. Longing is the fear of failure: “I want it so much but I don’t have the energy and at the same time, I’m afraid it won’t work out.” Why are you afraid? Because you are not thinking about the goal so much as how to achieve it. Stop thinking about the how.
Your task is to think about your goal as a fait accompli and run this goal slide in your mind. On the path to your goal, things won’t go as you expect or it might be that nothing happens at all. Don’t let that discourage you. No matter how events unfold, keep your course in a direct line with your goal. Let this be your motto: «I don’t want and I don’t hope, I intend».
Your position in the Alternatives Space relative to your goal is as if you were in a boat on the open sea. In order to reach land, you have to sail in a northerly direction. The direction in which the compass needle is pointing represents the focus of your train of thought.
All the time that you envisage a mental picture of approaching the shore and stepping out onto dry land, your ‘needle’ will point where it should. All you have to do is paddle and concentrate on arriving, just this and nothing else. Then the impatient mind begins to fidget and bother the rower: «Are we heading in the right direction? Will we be much longer?What if you do not have the strength? What if we’re going in the wrong direction? Of course! We should be going in the opposite direction entirely!»
As a result, the compass needle begins to waver and the boat constantly shifts its course. The mind doubts and worries because it cannot perceive movement in the variants space. It is used to having the situation under control. The mind will only calm down if you give it a task so that it can understand what it is doing.