“It takes courage to do what you know you should do, but do not do, because doing is easier and calms you down. It takes courage to do what you know you should do, but do not do, because doing is easier and calms you down.” ~ Carl Jung

A core belief of the people I have spoken to and observed is the belief that to succeed in life, we have to follow our passions and interests. Many of the stories of personal growth and development involve doing things we are passionate about and that have meaning to us. It seems this is a core belief that most people can be trusted to live by. However, it also appears to be an almost universal belief.

One of the difficulties with the belief is that it requires that you believe it is true. How can you believe something you have never seen or experienced? We see all the time and we do all the time. We live and work in a world where we can observe things and observe them very well. We experience it all.

The second difficulty is that it requires you to believe in the existence of a secret power behind things and people that causes them to do what they do. This is just the position of an observer as opposed to being a creator. We do not live in a physical body to create. The person sitting in this blog will not be creating anything when he believes his boss will be a great manager, that his wife will be the love of his life, that he will get promotions, that he will be treated fairly and justly and that his dreams will be fulfilled. This belief is one that requires belief, but also one that if believed in requires evidence beyond his own belief. I use the word require because if the belief is true it will become true only if there is some additional force behind the people and things and actions that cause them to do what they do. Yet there is no such additional force. If there was, then we would live in a physical world where he was right and his boss and wife and friends were agents provocateurs and caused him to do what they did and not be the only person who did what he did. How do we explain this? We cannot.

It seems that what we call belief is really only what is behind the belief, not what is behind belief. That is, belief is merely what is behind what we are motivated to believe. If we can understand this we can get out of the old way of interpreting experiences and beliefs. It is not belief, but the belief behind it that creates the effects we observe in the world.

It is not what we think that causes our experiences, but what we are really behind the thought. An example is someone who believes he will lose a lottery. But what he really believes is that he will win. The moment he has the opportunity to win he will win it. There is no new force behind his belief. So his experience is always the same whether he believes he will win or he doesn’t believe he will win. His belief is what causes the physical outcome, not what he believes. It is the underlying belief that causes the physical effects. So we get the outcome we observe because we believe it, not what we believe.

From the evidence, therefore, we can conclude that what we observe is what we believe. I would assume, that’s why we observe what we observe, to believe what we believe.

The evidence is overwhelming. We observe what we believe. I believe our beliefs are causing our experience.

From experience we know that what we observe is what we believe, not what we observe.

Let me give an example.

I go out in the morning to the garden to pray, maybe it’s the first thing. A few minutes before, in the car, I told my friend about the flower, how pretty it was and how special it was to pray for it. That morning, in the garden, when I was praying for the flower to come out, it didn’t. No matter how hard I tried. When I went back to my friend in the house to talk about it, he just smiled. He said he knew its way, and it would come out. But it didn’t. So I took his words to heart, not really believing them. I knew the flower would come out. It was just that it wouldn’t be now. So I did the opposite of what he said. I predicted the opposite.

I predicted that the flower would come out. The flower came out. But not in the way he said.

I predicted that the flower would come out in the way that I wanted it to come out. It came out differently. I expected it to come out in the way that it came out, but that it would not.

I didn’t believe the sentence that I had just heard. I expected what I expected, not what I wanted.

The flower came out differently. So I predicted that it would come out in a different way. It came out differently. I expected it would come out in a different way, but it did not. So I expected the same thing again. The same result.

So when I listened to the sentence, which had the same word, but a different meaning, not the meaning that I wanted, and not the meaning that I expected, and the sentence came out differently, I wasn’t following the meaning that I had when I believed the sentence. I wasn’t following the meaning that I had when I expected the flower to come out differently. And so to prove to myself that the sentence was true, the next time I heard the sentence, I expected the flower to come out the same way the flower came out the previous time. But this time it didn’t. So I expected that the same result. Again it didn’t happen. And I expected the same result again.

So to prove to myself that the sentence was true, I had to change the way I thought about the flower. I had to imagine a different flower in my mind. I had to change the picture in my mind of the flower. And the result was the same each time.

The result came out the same each time, but the method to achieve the result changed each time. This is how knowledge works. The cause is what I think about, the effect is what I get. It’s how the flower grows.

So if I want to achieve a goal, I have to change the method of achieving the goal. The cause is what I have to think about to achieve the goal. The effect is what I get. The method of achieving the goal is how I think about the goal, the method of achieving the goal is how I act, and the method of achieving the goal is how I achieve the goal.

Changing the method of achieving the goal was how I achieved my goal of being recognized in public. Each time I heard the sentence, I had to think about walking through a crowded mall with my favorite flower in my pocket. And each time, I kept imagining myself doing that.

I kept walking though a crowded mall with my favorite flower in my pocket. I kept imagining myself holding that flower, smelling that flower, tasting that flower, looking at the opposite side of the mall where I could smell my favorite flower. Each time I heard the sentence, I kept imagining myself doing that. And each time, I finally achieved my goal of being recognized in public. I achieved the goal that I had set for myself. The most important thing was that I did achieve the goal that I had set for myself. And that was enough.

Here are some more methods that I used. I did not mention every single method that I use to achieve my goals. I mentioned some basic methods that I use to achieve my goals. You can apply most of the methods mentioned here. But if you want to discover and discover on your own, you can. It’s your decision. And if you decide, you are the winner.

1. Think positive. This is not easy to practice as it requires your whole mind. However, what you gain by practicing this method is that you start believing that you can achieve anything that you set for yourself. Your confidence increases and you start believing that you can achieve almost anything that you set for yourself. And you always find a way to do it. You are ready to conquer almost anything in your path.

4. Do something on a daily basis. You need to do something everyday just to keep your goals achieved. Don’t just leave it for so long that you will miss it. Start practicing now and achieve your goals in a shorter time than you thought.

I hope that this information will help you achieve your dreams. And it will give you the motivation to keep going. Don’t give up because you can achieve almost anything. Practice the above mentioned methods to achieve your goals.