The Reason Writing Goals Matters

Jonathan Doyle
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

I’m writing this at 4am.

Most of the people in this city are asleep. Some are not. Some of us are sitting at desks or kitchen tables daring to dream of a different future for ourselves, our families or both. As we sit,we pull out a journal and, as we have so many days before, we write our goals. We take the images and hopes and aspirations that live deep in our hearts and souls and spirits and we make them appear on paper.

This is the first step.

We take what exists only as images and sounds and ideas within the billions of synapses in our brains and we make them appear as conscious constructs in written form in the physical world.

Then. In time. They appear in the physical world as realised aspirations.

In the 13th century St. Thomas Aquinas said:

“The hand is the conjoined instrument of the mind.”

I always really liked those words. The hand makes manifest through symbols what exists in the mind. It’s the first step of bringing our unseen realities, our deepest desires, into the real world.

The experience of millions of successful people over many years tells us that the firm and resolute commitment to writing your goals EVERY day is one of the most common traits of people who achieve, over time, what they deeply desire. They don’t write them once. They don’t write them in New Year’s Day, they don’t write them only in a crisis. They write them every day.

At the most basic level, writing daily goals, keeps what we desire in the front of our consciousness on a daily basis. It’s not rocket science. It simply keeps us aware of what matters, what we year for and then it sensitizes us to the opportunities and people and phone calls and emails and meetings and inspirations that become the paths by which these same goals are realised.

I have never been remotely interested in acting like most people act, wanting what most people want or doing what most people do. I want something else. I want to get up every day at 4m. I want to get up and move my deepest desires from my mind to the page and from the page to the world.

What’s stopping you doing the same?

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Jonathan Doyle

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Global speaker, author, and encourager of anything human.

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