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This is part 5 of a series of articles on Top Secrets to Achieve Success, please go to the Category Top Secrets for Success to find the rest of the articles. You will surely enjoy the reading.

It is a good thing that “The Law of Attraction” got so hyped to reach everyone in order for you to decide whether or not to believe in such a thing even though it is always working around us all the time.

This is important because in other words the law of attraction is showing you that “you need to know what you want”. I know from experience that it is not easy to answer yourself what is that you really want, I dare you to take a piece of paper and immediately start to write what is that you want NOW!. You will for sure need to spend some time thinking and many of you have not even done this exercise before being this your very first time.

That kind of situation speaks a lot about ourselves and what is that we really wish to have in life. We are so much in autopilot that we do not even care or know what we want to achieve in any case.

There is certainly another important thing in the process to achieve what you want and that is doing something about it.

It is certainly true that you need to take action in order to get to your goals but here is where harmony and balance work and important role.

Deepak Chopra in one of his books wrote that once you set your objective or your goal you have to release it, in other words, forget it, he gives as an example those moments in which you are trying to remember the name of someone and you are trying very hard to make it come to your memory even though you have this feeling that you have it “on the tip of your tongue”, but at the very moment that you decide not to try to remember it anymore or “give up”, the name almost instantly comes up and you remember it.

It is kind of illogical; to forget or to give up your goals but in some way that is how it works.

In my own experience I decided to separate the thought of focusing in 2 different areas:

1. Concentrating on my Goal
Certainly it is important to know what you want to achieve but you cannot spend all your time just thinking about that ultimate goal or outcome, it is just counterproductive as you will be always consciously bringing that goal to your mind and you will not be focusing on reading the signals given by the Universe in order to take the shortest path to your goal. I spend a very small amount of time on reminding me my goals every day maybe just 3% of my total time, the rest of the day I really forget what those goals are but I do know that they are slowly getting ingrained in my subconscious.

2. Concentrating on the Process to achieve my goals
Here is where I spend the rest of my time, I do not really go ahead and think about my goal and look for a way to develop my goals, it is like I have really forgot what the final goal is and just start working in mini goals that will be building up my way in the direction of the final goal.

Enjoy and have complete fun about every single detail of the process. I enjoy every single moment no matter how much pain, joy or effort is costing me I just think it as the joy of being alive. I know it is difficult to explain because it is more of a mindset than just a way to say it.

Long time ago I saved the following excerpt from a site which I do not know which one is it anymore (if anyone knows or claim as yours I will be more than happy to post the necessary author quotes):

For the most part, the athletes that can let go of their time goals are the ones who usually achieve them. This has always been an intuitive sense as a coach, but I hadn’t thought about it until I heard Scott’s interview. Scott summed up this approach when he mentioned ‘process focused athletes, vs. results focused athletes’, meaning ‘enjoy your training, and the results will take care of themselves’. In other words, if you are so focused on the end result, you won’t have as much fun in training and the chances of you reaching your time goals diminish greatly.

The main question each athlete has to ask themselves to enjoy the process of training is “how can I make this more enjoyable?” Enjoyable doesn’t necessarily mean fun. I like words like challenging, uplifting, encouraging, satisfying, fulfilling, outstanding, achievement. These are the feelings you want to get from your training and often it’s just a matter of perspective. These are the feelings that lead to a successful process.”

Even though it is sports related this again applies for each aspect of your life, just make the test and enjoy each thing in its moment (live the present) and you will really feel different, for sure not empty anymore. Feel the JOY!!! 

In conclusion the secret is: ‘enjoy the process, and the results will take care of themselves’.