You Are a Natural Goal Seeking Machine!
We as humans are naturally “goal-seeking mechanisms”. It happens naturally and easily.
Setting the goal doesn’t. It takes more than just stating it or writing it down. Remember all those old tapes that are running that I mentioned in the last post? That affects your ability to remain on target.
Allow me to use a few examples and analogies to demonstrate.
One of the simplest comparisons is our home furnace (or air conditioner for you southern folks). It works on a cybernetic principle.
Let’s say you set the thermostat to 70 degrees.  When the temperature drops, the furnace comes on. It heats your home until the temperature reaches or exceeds 70 degrees and shuts off.
Rarely is the temperature exactly 70 degrees. There is a feedback loop that self corrects. Above 70 the furnace shuts off, below 70 it comes on.
The thermostat is like your conscious mind. The furnace is like your subconscious, it just does….24/7. It takes orders and works…it doesn’t think.
Another example. Auto-pilot on an aircraft. Say a pilot takes off from New York and wants to fly to LA. He sets the course. The plane is rarely exactly on course. It’s too far left or too far right…but it self corrects. What is amazing is that for fully 99% of the flight…the goal isn’t visible. The pilots and passengers operate on faith.
It’s like goal setting. What if the pilots didn’t have a “knowing” about how the system operated? They’d have to continually land. Get their bearings. Perhaps even give up.
One more example.  A giant cruise ship. The conscious mind is on the bridge holding wheel. It sets the course. The subconscious is the engine room. Never seeing where it’s going…just listening to the bridge’s guidance, and working.
We see examples in our own lives. A student sees himself as a B student. At the end of the first semester they have a C average.  They self correct to get A’s in the next semester and their overall grade end up with a “B”, just like they imagined.
Golfers know this. Let’s say someone usually shoots 90 over 18 holes. They go out on the front nine and are “unconscious” and shoot a 40. Magically they self correct on the back 9, “blow up” and shoot a 50. They shoot exactly what they expected deep down inside.
So back to our mind.
I’ve stated that the subconscious mind is 1 MILLION times more powerful than the conscious mind.
But it’s not the seat of reason. It doesn’t make decisions. It can’t distinguish between reality and your imagination.
It just chugs along like the engine room on the ship or your furnace.
Unfortunately the examples above make it seem like changing course and resetting the “thermostat” or turning the wheel on the bridge of the ship is easy.
It’s like turning that big ship. You can turn the wheel, but if you let go…it’s going to go right back. You have to work hard to hold it in the new position.
And it’s very difficult.
And no one has shown us how.
I will.
Come back tomorrow.
-Sean LeMay