Part 17 of 45 · Chapter 18 · 12 min 35 sec
You’ve done the work on goal-setting. You’ve written the lists. You’ve heard about SMART goals and stretch goals and vision boards. You know how to set a deadline and chase a target. You’ve probably done this dozens of times across the years — maybe from a stack of 50+ books on personal development, abundance, and success.
And yet, if you’re honest, something still isn’t clicking. You set the goal. You hit the date. Or you don’t. And either way, the next goal feels heavier than the last. You wonder why people with less drive seem to land their dreams while you grind toward yours. You wonder why the goals you actually reach often arrive feeling smaller than you imagined.
It’s not you. It’s not a lack of discipline. It’s not a character flaw. The frameworks you were handed were built on a model that quietly undermines the very thing you were trying to do. Most goal-setting teaching adds wanting, waiting, and deadlines — three things that, in this chapter, David shows actually slow the process down.
Here’s the reframe. Goals are not promises to the future. They are images the universe uses as raw material right now. The more images you give it — and the more present-tense they feel — the more material life has to weave together on your behalf. That changes how many goals you should set, how you should phrase them, and what you should stop doing.
Step into Chapter 18. David lays out a way of working with goals that may sound strange at first — until you realise it explains why some of your wishes arrived effortlessly and others stayed locked behind years of effort.
What this chapter unlocks
- Why arbitrary deadlines slow you down. David explains that setting “by next December” introduces a state of wanting and waiting — and wanting prevents arriving. Goals are best held in the eternal now, even a goal you imagine fulfilling 30 years from now.
- The case for 5,000 goals. Not five. Not fifty. David teaches that the wealthiest people often hold hundreds or thousands of goals — because each goal is an image the source uses to create. The more images, the more material life has to work with.
- Why a money-only goal almost always fails. When the mind holds mostly financial images, life has very little else to work with. David contrasts two examples — Lee, who only wants a billion dollars, and Jorg, whose mind is full of vibrant images across every area of life. Jorg gets wealthier, faster, and more easily.
- The “I am” rule. Even a goal meant for 25 years from now is phrased and felt in present tense — “I am,” not “I will have.” The universe handles the timing. Your job is the image.
- Goals are co-created, not extracted. David offers a stunning reframe: your desire for a boat is what inspires the boat-builder to start building. Your goals don’t take from anyone — they call the entire chain of people, events, and coincidences into being.
The 30-second test
Listen to the first 30 seconds. If you hear David say that target dates should be set to the eternal moment of now — and you feel something resist that idea because every coach you’ve ever worked with told you the opposite — this is your chapter. That resistance is the exact place the old model has been quietly costing you.
Why this chapter matters in the series
Chapters 16 and 17 laid the groundwork on goals — what they are and how they relate to the images of the mind. Chapter 18 turns up the dial. It dismantles deadline-based goal-setting and gives you a wildly different scale to work with: thousands of goals, all held in the present tense, across every area of life. From here, the series moves deeper into how thought, attention, and observation actually shape the wealth that arrives at your door.
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[Music] a happy pocket full of money by David Cameron gandi read by John Wayne Meyers dis [Music] three Target dates for goals are best set to the Eternal moment of now even if you’re setting a goal that you would like fulfilled 10 years from today state it and think of it in present tense tting an arbitrary date in the future setting an arbitrary date in the future introduces a state of wanting and waiting wanting prevents achievement arbitrary Target dates also interfere with the natural functioning rate of the universe which you do not usually know hen you say by the end of next year I when you say by the end of next year I will
be a millionaire how do you know that you could not have become one by the end of next month anyway the only real time and place there is in the universe is now here be exact Define your goals and Visions exactly if you aim at nothing be sure that you will get nothing specific Talent intelligence and hard work without exact goals often lead to frustration thoughts take time to manifest in the physical reality most people only think a few months ahead today they may think I need to buy a house soon and then they start stressing over it and struggling to get it it that is the halfhazard short-term approach try long-term imagine the power
of setting goals 30 years in advance by listing down and visualizing daily everything you would ever like to have over the next 30 Years you set in motion the forces of thought power in the universe well in advance even if you do not wish to buy a house now as long as you know that one day you would or might wish to buy one start visualizing it now thoughts take time to manifest into physical reality so the earlier you start the better life then starts working automatically you start realizing your goals in time without stress and time pressure things simply fall into place remember that in your 30 years goal setting even though you think
you need something 25 years from now set and think of that goal in present tense now I am and not I will have the universe will take care of the appropriate timing for you you have to know where you would like to go if you wish to make sure that you get there otherwise you will not get there have goals plans images and Visions have journals to record track and refine them without goals plans images and Visions you will either not go very far or not as far as you are capable of going how many goals should you have you can never have more than enough the wealthiest people have hundreds some have thousands ome
have so many goals it would take some have so many goals it would take 200 or 300 years to have them all manifest you should aim at having at least 5,000 goals understand the nature of goals number one goals are images of the Mind the stuff that the Universe uses to create so the more you have the more you give the universe to work with and nothing is impossible or difficult for the source number two goals have a tendency to just come true in the most unexpected times and sequences the more goals you have the richer your life experience will be number three when you reach a goal its power disappears you no longer have
a driving force and the universe no longer has anything to work with so the more goals you have the better a person with one goal will achieve less than one with 100 goals a person with 100 will achieve less than one with a thousand goals the fewer goals you have the more you achieve less results or the results of other people the more you set the more you get how could you possibly have 5,000 goals easy think of details and of everything list everything even small things like have lies in my garden decorate my grandmother’s house for her fly fly in the Concord stay at the Ritz donate to the wildlife conservation fund buy a
BMW convertible a Jeep a jet a boat have a saltwater aquarium in my living room get my father a golf set buy books for Orphan children take a trip to the Great Wall of China meet these people date these type of people work with these type of people these type of shoes clothing from this designer these type of chairs from this shop these ski boots see these places in these countries and so on you can never run out of things which you would love to do be and C in this planet the more you have them in your awareness the more you will start meeting with coincidences in your life that make them come true
Life Starts working magic and you have passion and excitement remember wealth is abundance expressed again wealth is abundance expressed translated into physical manifested abundance is all there is it is your true nature and the nature of life when you think think of wealth do not think only of money and business think of everything everything that you wish to have do be or see in your life in the lives of others all ife here is the greatest Insight you life here is the greatest Insight you are merely an observer life gives under life all on its own in any case it all exists all you do is Observe and experience try to understand this you are
an observer with a body to experience your observations it is what you choose to observe and experience that determines what You observe an experience it is all there for you automatically so choose many things and you will see many things another thing you should understand about goals and thoughts is this your goals are caused by you and everyone else and vice versa another words when you intend to have a boat it causes an inspiration in a person suited to build boats to get into the boat business it also inspires all the necessary events and middle people to take part appropriately to bring about your having that boat everybody wins what do you think caused this
book to be written for you it is the effect of your previous desire to be wealthier the desire of billions of other people to be wealthy and my desire to spread wealth and be it it is because you desire that a thing is created without your desire nothing is created and all you desire is created you can correctly say that you wrote this book life gives un life you are an observer with a body to experience your observations that is how it works You observe what you choose to bserve OB erve you experience what and observe OB erve you experience what and how you choose to experience the more goals you have the more you
allow life to work through you for the good of all ife’s ultimate goal is to express life’s ultimate goal is to express itself and it does so effortlessly following your exact intentions and beliefs once you see this clearly you will know without a shred of doubt that what you wish to have wishes to be with you more than you wish to be with it life wishes for nothing more than to express itself so do not be shy now have ry many goals very many goals do not make the mistake of making your goals only in money terms wealth is abundance expressed abundance means plenty of everything money is only a small aspect of wealth many
people fail to get wealthy because they plan their goals in terms of money only they say something like make enough money to buy that car or make a million dollars to buy a house there is a huge error in that sort of goal setting a close error to that is the error of having huge financial goals and very few other goals ome people may set goals like make a some people may set goals like make a billion dollars but they have very few other goals why are both of these in error try to understand this clearly life is images of the Mind expressed it is that simple life is also precise you automatically get exactly
the amount of money needed to realize your most precise and certain images of your mind and although you may think that money is the only way to get a certain thing that you like life knows that there are many other ways of getting it not just hrough purchase with cash so if you through purchase with cash so if you have very few other goals and images in your mind if you hardly think of anything else except money there will not be much material for life to work with to illustrate imagine that it was possible to open a person’s mind up for examination now imagine there were two fictitious people jorg and Lee and they both
wish to become wealthy Lee wished to have a billion dollars and that is all they thought about on examination Lee’s mind showed few images of anything else even concerning his business or job there were a few images or goals related to customer numbers quality products and so on there were also few images and goals on all other aspects of his life Lee just had a strong wish desire and goal of becoming a millionaire now jorg also wished to be wealthy however unlike Lee she also had cultivated many interests and Desires in all aspects PS of her life her mind on examination was full of vibrant images of a wide variety of many things it even
had specifics on small details such as the clothes she wished to have places to travel to The Deco in her offices ways he wished her customers treated her she wished her customers treated her gifts she wished to give to her loved ones in the rest of the world and so on ow the question is all other things now the question is all other things held constant who do you think became wealthier and in a much easier and seemingly coincidental lucky way jorg of course will be the wealthier and in an easier way life ensures that all of your mind’s images that you hold true and clear are fulfilled it’s okay to wish to be a
billionaire but how exactly do you visualize a billion dollars you see the lack of Lifestyle visualization is why many people fail to achieve their financial goals it is very hard to visualize and hold fast in your mind a billion dollars but it is extremely easy to visualize the lifestyle in business of a billionaire do not separate your financial life and goals from the rest of life for the financial goals are only a means to an end not an end in themselves remember money is a shadow of value a medium of exchange your goals hould be on the value and the exchanges hould be on the value and the exchanges hould be on the value and
the exchanges not on the money the shadow be of the state of mind that the source life God only says yes to you never know the only question then is this what is it that you are asking for and do you believe it yet never ask intend for even before you ask it has been given to you whatever you ask for whatever you intend believingly shall be yours without Vision we perish the Bible a major reason why people fall out of riches is that their goals reduce and their images of their mind fall sometimes this happens when something new comes into their life and they forg get their original passion that got them wealthy in
the first place this new thing could be the birth of a child the finding of a love partner the achieving Comfort especially when a person comes from a poor background and gets rich and so on none of these things is bad but it is good to know and keep in mind that if you ever find yourself going down reexamine your goals and mental images that is a powerful start o your finding out what is happening to your finding out what is happening to your life for life is images of the Mind expressed read many magazines on all topics magazines give you ideas images goals desires and much more the more images of mind you have
the richer your life will be all are the things held constant to the extent that an individual or Society has positive and Grand goals in the right way so will they have wealth and happiness this wraps up our journey into thinking in the right way for wealth images thoughts and goals need to be in a certain way they then need to be fitted into into the bigger picture in reality thinking is step two of the wealth creation process but it is the most often involved active step in wealth never forget however that thinking is tep two of wealth creation it is very step two of wealth creation it is very important that you always remember
this o what is step one it is being first so what is step one it is being first cause it is that which causes thought hat from which thought Springs that from which thought Springs that without which thought would not be let us dive in deeper still
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