chosen goals they have adopted from their personal history, pro-
ducing results that are different from what is consciously intended.
If you are in this latter category, go back to the Purpose of Your
Life method in Chapter 6. Goals naturally flow as an expression of
your purpose in a mental hierarchy that looks like Figure 8.1.
This hierarchy operates based on conscious choice and uncon-
scious programming. If you have not consciously chosen your pur-
pose, then your unconsciously chosen inherited purpose likely will
conflict with consciously chosen goals.
Motivation matters, also. If you have experienced conflicts
or resistance in achieving consciously chosen goals in the past,
overreliance on moving-away motivation may be the root cause.
Such overreliance causes a person to be primarily reactive to ex-
ternal events rather than responsive to internally generated goals
and desires.
Consistent use of the Baseball Diamond method in Chapter 4
increases the power of moving-toward motivation. Use the method
to balance your behavior between avoiding painful situations and
moving toward your internal pleasurable goals.
Two very important and almost immediate events inevitably oc-
cur when you establish a meaningful goal for yourself. For some
people these events occur so subtly that they fail to notice them in132 Your Mind Is Not a Democracy
FIGURE 8.1 Hierarchy of Your Goals