Why Goal Setting Matters
Goal setting gives direction to your subconscious mind, helping you to achieve your goals. They give you a path in life. However, setting vague goals like "I want to make more money" or "I want to live a happy life" will not end up leading you to a fulfilling life.
The subconscious is a powerful machine, and understanding how it works is an important part of successful goal setting. Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho-Cybernetics, explains how goal setting gives your subconscious mind direction.
"Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it works in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend on its automatic guidance system to get you to that goal much better than 'you' could do with conscious thought. "You supply the goal by thinking about the end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means."
Your subconscious mind behaves similarly to a GPS; it is continuously scanning the environment around you for information relevant to the details you have given it. That's why setting clear goals will provide you with a greater likelihood of achieving them.
It sends a strong signal to your subconscious mind, allowing it to unleash its power of concentration in the search for opportunities to achieve the goal.
