The biggest mistake we make is setting a goal and using willpower alone to achieve the goal. For many years, seminar leaders, experts and coaches have been teaching us to set goals and take action toward those goals everyday. Great concept, the problem is it doesn’t work. Our subconscious mind, which controls our habits, is actually stronger than our willpower. However, most people are using willpower to create new habits, which takes a lot of energy, a lot of discipline, a lot of focus, and goes against many years of programming. The problem is you’re not in the habit of that new habit. Willpower is like a light switch. Imagine walking into a dark room, flip the light switch on, but it has a spring that automatically turns the light off. In order to keep the light on, it has to be held on. Willpower is exactly the same, it’s only on when you turn it on and, for most people, that’s not much of the day. Most of the day, we do the same thing over and over and over and over. I guess that is why they are called habits.
The new way to set and achieve goals effortlessly is to delegate your success to your environments. Here’s the catch. When I say environments, most people think of nature, plants or their physical location. These are types of environments but most people are unaware there are actually 9 different environments controlling our success.
These 9 environments are conditioning us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to be Happy Healthy and Wealthy or to be Unhappy, Sick and Broke. Therefore, if you become aware of the 9 environments and learn how to change the environments to pull you into your goals instead of using willpower and force to push you toward your goals, life would become simpler and goals would become easier to accomplish.
