Inside you is a mechanism and a process that keeps you constantly moving forward toward the things your mind holds as targets. (You may or may not have exciting, satisfying targets, but that’s a different article.)

The point of this is, you are hard-wired to achieve, to strive, to move forward relentlessly until your life matches that picture you’re holding in your mind.

It’s important to remind yourself of this fact on those days when it seems like everything is falling apart and your goals are always hiding somewhere beyond the horizon. The truth is, nothing ever falls apart. Everything is proceeding exactly as you program them to.

Not satisfied with the results you’re getting? Then it’s time to learn more about how your mind creates your reality. In part 3 of this series, guest author Kerry Sullivan would like to introduce you to your…

Heat Seeker Motivation Skills
By Kerry Sullivan

When someone tells you that you can’t do something, or that you’re no good; or if you start believing that you are never going to achieve your goals, it HURTS. Well the reason that it hurts is because you are genetically wired to strive for more, to accomplish high goals, to go above and beyond. You are designed to be a heat-seeking missile that eventually hits the target.

Maxwell Maltz wrote a great book titled, Psycho-Cybernetics, and in this book he says exactly that: You are a heat-seeking missile. A heat-seeking missile has tremendous power and potential, but along the way to its target it makes constant adjustments to stay locked-on to its target. We’re the same way. We are genetically wired to reach our goals and hit the target, but we have to adjust along the way to compensate for changes and mistakes.

Think a little about human history. When the cavemen first discovered fire, they didn’t just sit around saying, “Hey, this fire is great. Sometimes we get food and sometimes we don’t, but that’s OK; life is pretty good just like this. Let’s just stay here and hang out by the fire and keep hunting the same way we always do.” No way! They didn’t say that. Over human history, people have always been striving for more and better. We improved our shelter, took over continents, invented all kinds of amazing things, went to the moon. Who knows where we’ll go from here? I don’t know, but I do know that we will continue to strive for more because we are genetically wired for that.

The problem for many people is that when they make a mistake or encounter an obstacle, they give up. They forget that they are a heat-seeking missile!

Think about a baby. When it’s first born, the baby will try to reach out for objects. But because its coordination isn’t fully developed yet, the baby’s arm zigzags until it finally latches on to the object. The baby makes micro-adjustments until the object is in hand. The same thing happens when a toddler starts to walk. He starts out wobbling from here to there. He falls and cries. But he keeps getting up and trying again, making little adjustments until finally he grows up and is running marathons.

You’re the exact same way when you set a goal. You’re going to wobble. You’re going to screw up and make mistakes. But those errors are part of the learning process. They will help you grow and meet higher goals. But for that to happen, you can’t give up and quit, otherwise you will never learn.

I can tell you one thing for sure: Anyone who has ever accomplished anything big got there because they FAILED TO QUIT. They just kept going, like a heat-seeking missile, until they hit the target. They made little adjustments along the way, but they kept pressing on.

So get out there, set your goal, launch with power and passion, and never quit! You are a heat-seeking missile!

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Back to Charles:
So heat-seeking missiles we are, then. And if we want to better understand how this applies to us, let’s look at how a real missile (or torpedo) guidance system operates.

First there’s a way to lock on to a target. That’s us setting a goal.

Next, it needs to have a sensing and feedback mechanism so it knows whether it’s aimed accurately or not. And if it’s not, then it must have a way to correct course.

We do this when we pay attention to what we do and check how well we’re moving toward our goal. Brian Tracy often says, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Measuring your progress is a simple, unequivocal way to know instantly how you’re doing.

Once we have a system like this (and actually start using it), it doesn’t even matter if the target moves or changes slightly while we’re en route. We just correct course, keep moving forward and eventually reach the target.

But unlike a heat-seeking missile, our objective is not to self-destruct – or it shouldn’t be. That’s why setting a good goal (including what we’ll do after we reach it) is an important first step.

So as you do those two things – first set a clear goal, and second pay close attention to your progress – you’re using your natural guidance system to live the life you want. Now, how might you put this to use in the coming year?

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

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