Live your values..not your goals

What causes you to choose how you invest your energy on a daily basis?

I have been manifesting for years. I have countless of journals and notebooks spread around my house, filled with goals and to-do lists. The dreams extend back to when I was married, when I was separating and all the ‘maybe man’ relationships since.

There is a clear trend. I want for all the same stuff. And I continue to not achieve my goals. Why is that?

Are my goals wrong? Or am I living my life all wrong, which stops me from getting my goals?

So my goals: To buy a house, to travel with my daughter, to be a life coach, to have a successful business, to be financially secure.

Its been 9 years. I have not achieved any of those goals.

I examined the values that underpin my goals and came up with the core ones of love, authenticity and growth. I have many more, but these are the key ones I go back to daily.

Do my goals have anything to do with my values? Yes, but I have forgotten to allow the links to occur. Because of emotion.

I have been distracted so often by love. I have loved so hard, I have become driven by my emotions. I have forgotten about building financial stability, I was busy mending broken hearts and dreams.

I have grown, but I have not fully appreciated or planned for how my growth is to fit in with my goal of buying a house. My growth was lessons learnt about what NOT TO DO, instead of what to do.

I wrongly believed my emotions were my authenticity. Instead, my authenticity is my strength and my life. Not my responses to the dramas in my life.

All the energy I have spent on trying to navigate emotions and relationships has really stopped me from focusing on achieving my financial goals. How the hell am I supposed to achieve financial goals when my emotional wellbeing seems to require so much of my attention?

I have decided to focus on not letting my emotions bully me. My values are going to run the show and the output will be financial security.