8
YOUR MIND IS
NOT A DEMOCRACY
If you keep thinking what you have always thought, then you
will keep getting what you always got. Instead of putting up with
what you always got, you learn how to intervene intentionally on
the unconscious thinking process that has produced results in the
past. Gain reliable access to your creativity, instead of awaiting
inspiration, and learn to apply the natural, empowering psycho-
logical reaction that occurs whenever you commit to a goal. You
will also acquire certainty about accomplishing any goal and dis-
cover why it is essential to run your mind as a dictatorship.If you are confused about what you should want, the mere topic
of goals causes you frustration and upset. If you haven’t com-
pleted the method for declaring the purpose of your life in Chap-
ter 6, go back now and complete it. Without clarity about your
purpose, frustrating conflicts about goals are inevitable. Clarity of
purpose vastly simplifies and focuses goal setting. By determining
the purpose of your life, much of the conflict surrounding goal
setting is removed, and you are empowered to choose goals that
are expressions of your purpose, not ones based on what you were
supposed to do or want.
Everyone has goals; some are chosen consciously and others un-
consciously. Some people consciously choose goals to maximize sat-
isfaction, self-expression, and wealth or some other combination of
important values. Once you take responsibility for your results, you
will recognize that even the upsetting aspects of your current situa-
tion actually were created in the past by unconsciously selected
goals. Other people settle for these preprogrammed, unconsciously
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