Enjoy Achieving Goals by Boosting Consciousness

Up until the other day I have always thought goals should be set so that the outcome makes you feel better about yourself. To some extent I still believe this, but the other day I experienced a massive shift in perspective after reading some of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

This is very hard to describe because I feel as though I have experienced an upward rise in my level of consciousness (for more on this see Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins). Essentially what I mean is that my perspective changed to such a large degree that all the goals I had set myself were now irrelevant or at minimum coming from entirely the wrong perspective.

To summarise my understanding of Eckhart's philosophy in terms of goal setting, I essentially now realise that the means is so much more important than the end.

I used to use the end as an excuse to justify the means.

I also used to spend all my time thinking about the end, instead of enjoying the means. I've now realised that this is essentially the result of a deep feeling of "lack of".

This is why people get "bored" or why people "can't wait for the weekend". Because they internally have a sense of lack of and this manifests itself in the form of believing that somewhere else or a different time will fulfill that lack. This feeling of "lack of" or wanting to be somewhere else can be solved this very second by really appreciating the present moment.

It's very difficult to describe without actually experiencing it, but after reading "The Power of Now" I asked myself a simple question while journalling that popped me into this higher level of consciousness. This was...

"Will I ever reach fulfillment by searching for it, or is the only way to achieve it by experiencing it NOW?"