Part 16 of 45 · Chapter 17 · 9 min 48 sec
You’ve set goals before. Maybe hundreds of them. You’ve done the vision boards, the SMART framework, the 90-day plans. You’ve written affirmations in the morning and read them at night. You’ve probably read 50+ books on success, and a fair chunk of them had a chapter on goal-setting. You know the drill.
And yet, if something still isn’t clicking, here’s what often goes unnamed: most of us were taught to set goals from the head, not from the whole self. We wrote them down. We didn’t live with them. We didn’t journal them, picture them, feel them, or treat them as already real. We treated goals like a to-do list with bigger stakes — and then wondered why they kept slipping.
It’s not you. It’s not that you lack discipline or focus or worthiness. The methods we were handed were partial. You can’t move a deep desire with a sticky note alone. The nervous system needs more. The subconscious needs more. The version of you that grew up scanning for safety needs more than a bullet point on a calendar.
This chapter offers something different. David walks through seven specific steps for setting goals in a way the universe — and your own deeper self — can actually respond to. It’s part list, part ritual, part nervous-system practice. There’s a journal involved. There are pictures. There’s gratitude as a tool, not a platitude. And there’s a small, quiet instruction about what to do the moment you wake up that most people will skim past — and then come back to.
If you’ve ever felt like your goals were sincere but somehow inert, this is the chapter that gives them a body.
What this chapter unlocks
- The seven-step goal-setting method David Cameron Gikandi actually uses: list 100+ desires across 30 years, write the reasons behind each one, gather images, read and visualize twice daily, take one small action now, do everything with gratitude, and enjoy the fruits when they arrive.
- Why a goals-and-visualizations journal matters more than a goals list: the journal becomes portable evidence of who you are becoming — with pictures, dates, feelings, problems, ideas, and dreams all recorded in one place you actually return to.
- The “I am” rule: never write goals in future tense. Not “I will lose 10 pounds” or “I want more wealth.” Write “I am” — because the only time that exists, scientifically and spiritually, is now.
- What to do in the first moments after waking: before you grab your phone, before you load the day, ask yourself one important question while still half-asleep. The answers come in ways they never do once you’re fully awake.
- Why dreams count too: your soul never sleeps, it just changes states. Recording your dreams becomes data — part of a fuller picture of the multi-dimensional you that’s shaping your life around the clock.
The 30-second test
Listen to the first 30 seconds. If David’s instruction to list “at least 100 things” for the next 30 years makes some part of you go quiet — half excited, half scared, half “I wouldn’t even know where to start” — this is your chapter. That hesitation is the exact place where the work begins.
Why this chapter matters in the series
Part 15 introduced goals as a concept — what they are and why they shape your reality. This chapter is the practical hinge. It takes the inner work from earlier parts and gives it a daily form: a journal, a list, pictures, a morning practice, a way of speaking. From here, the series moves toward conditions, suffering, and how thought becomes the physical world around you. You’ll want this chapter’s habits in place before you get there.
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it is not enough to set goals goals must also be set in a certain way a right way that is most friendly to the universal aws these are the right goal setting laws these are the right goal setting steps number one list what you would like to have do and be between now and the next 30 Years list everything you can think of small and large places to visit things to have residences experiences Partners skills to acquire things to do do people to meet projects Charities health habits everything this not a list of what you think you can achieve it is a list of what would give you the most incredible life of your liking
whether you think you can achieve it or not a life that is unbelievably fantastic for you your list should have at least 100 things in there it is not hard to come up with at least 100 things for 30 years to be very wealthy have about 5,000 things even small details regarding your desires should be in there number two for each goal you listed write the reasons why you wish to have it if for example you wish have a large home write down the reasons why in other words what will you do with and in this home put drama into it reasons Empower your goal and make it easier to imagine and visualize and attain
it they give life to it and make the subconscious accept it a whole lot better number three get cuttings from agazines brochures the internet magazines brochures the internet photographs Etc of the item items in your goals and stick them in your Journal start a goals and visualizations journal on paper or computer in it Place pictures of the things you wish to have cars stocks buildings boats land travel clothes or anything else refer to it often twice a day is highly recommended the more real and detailed your visualization and Imagination is the faster and more accurately you’ll realize your goals pictures are very important to have in your life number four every day read your list
look at your pictures and then spend at least 20 minutes twice a day imagining animating and visualizing in detail all your goals if you meditate and it is highly recommended that you do your goal visualization do your goals visualization in meditation as well meditation puts you closest to the source the best place you can be to plant your seed of Visions into the field of infinite possibilities and creation number five then here now do something that takes you closer to your goal there is always omething to do now however small it something to do now however small it will open the next step to you a step that may be unseen until the First Act
is taken Every Act is an act of self-de and creation act deliberately and with awareness so that each Act takes you closer to your goals not further away act with purpose number six do everything with gratitude think speak and act with gratitude the Gratitude of knowing that you are guaranteed success if you act in the ways of these laws gratitude is a statement of certainty that is power be genuinely grateful and excited about the fact that you already have your goals realized for they will be by universal law guaranteed and so they are this type of gratitude works wonders number seven enjoy your fruits enjoy experiencing your goals when they manifest into your reality they
are sure to do so guaranteed by universal aw make sure your goals and law make sure your goals and visualization Journal is portable no point getting a journal that only stays home you should also record important houghts in it that you have plus thoughts in it that you have plus experiences and conditions record as much as possible on your Journal at the nd of a day or whenever is most end of a day or whenever is most convenient for you a journal greatly helps you discover and create yourself accurately do not worry about the structure of your Journal just make it easy to use for you in your Journal also write problems you encounter suffering
is an error in thinking as you will see later in the conditions chapter writing down your suffering helps you evaluate it clearly and discover the error write down your feelings as well this is very important because true feelings are Communications from the soul that part of you that is closest to the source do not confuse feelings with emotions and thoughts be careful about that write down good ideas and Inspirations immediately when you get them perhaps the best time to get inspiration in a waking state is just after you first wake up in the morning instead of immediately taking on your baggage and planning the day or whatever stay laying in bed and ask yourself about
something large you would want to know it will come to you very clearly then just when you wake up before you are fully awake relax and gently ask yourself the most important questions of your life gently without arousing yourself the answers will come to you in amazing ways in ways that they never do during the rest of the day in addition when you start practicing what is in this book ideas will start coming to you in large numbers from all sorts of sources eemingly by seemingly by coincidence have your Journal handy do not wait to write later right now before you forget or lose it and do not forget o record the dreams that you
have at o record the dreams that you have at o record the dreams that you have at night one day you will find the use of that all in good time dreams are not just useless images that come to you as you sleep people think of the time they are awake in the day as their live time and when they sleep as their rest time they think that all their decisions and useful activity is done when they are awake well the amazing thing is that you rself Soul or Spirit as you wish to yourself Soul or Spirit as you wish to refer to it never sleeps your spirit or Soul or whatever other term you’re
comfortable with never ever sleeps it just changes States Of Consciousness dimensions of Consciousness you are multi-dimensional waking is one state or Dimension sleep and dreams is another and there are many more and they all count they all influence your life in the waking State and vice versa even if you do not believe this remember that all thoughts count and dreams are thoughts so they count and of course influence events in your life you never eally sleep so to speak you are a soul really sleep so to speak you are a soul with a body not a body with a soul to the extent that you are conscious of this and awake to it so shall
you have more of it to make it easier to refer to your Journal later you can number one have separate parts of your journal for different types of information number two make an index at the back number three use different colored pens number four Stick tabs on pages you wish to Mark or number five or invent any system you like that ensures easy access to your information review and reread your Journal at least once a month preferably more often once a year read all your journals what happens when you reread is that you start seeing your life in a completely new light all at one go you see successes you never thought you had you
see things you should change and you see errors to correct the whole point of keeping a journal is to review it for amazing opportunities to understand yourself better see more clearly grow faster in making entries in your Journal enter the exact dates time and location this helps you track down patterns Trends and rates the the more events and experiences you capture in your journal every day the more you will get out of your Journal get into the habit of carrying your Journal when writing down and speaking of your goals write in present ense I tense I am I am I am no matter what you’re trying to create next in your life find a way
of putting it into I am for example if you wish to lose weight do not think or say I will lose 10 pounds or I want to lose 10 pounds instead say think and write I am X pounds now do the same with wealth the only time that exists in the universe scientifically and spiritually is now hence I am do not worry how your goals will be fulfilled there are powerful forces at work in all of nature with infinite intelligence and coordination things people books places TV shows movie Etc will start appearing and helping you to achieve your goals in other words coincidences will happen simply visualize your goals believingly shut out all other thoughts
that negate your goals the trick is in the details and in consistency for example if having a new home is a goal you have write it down in detail write down where the house is located how many rooms it has the size of the compound the size of the house the Furnishings in it and so on then visualize it that way and do not change your mind this is very important understand that the universe is in activity manifesting into physical form all your thoughts every single one of them turns into some amount of physical form somehow and somewhere if you change your mind you will be undoing your work just hold your thought until it
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