The Mystery of Success Through Writing Down Desires, Goals, Ambitions, and Dreams

This world is imagic. Everything about it. It reflects the nature of God's source, for all universes are the Ineffable becoming manifest. Any success manual at all will advise to write down, review, and revise your desires and ambitions (see links to examples below), and to imagine them as presently existing. So why write down our goals and desires for success and believe them to exist? What is the nature of God imaged in it?

The mystery is why write it. Why does what is written come true? I am not under the illusion that there is some hidden power in what is written or in the action of writing itself. I am wondering if writing down our goals and ambitions contributes a sense of permanence to our imagination. Having written, we now have a benchmark, a reference to reflect upon when what we wished for becomes true in our experience and we observe that it worked. The fulfilled text is a banner, a flag. "When it works, you have found Him, God, to be your own, wonderful, human imagination" (Neville). I wonder if giving Him opportunity to appear (Hello!) is the power behind writing it down's success.

Writing down also indicates faith and respect to God, if you have it. It recognizes our humble position. While it is true that having written goals focuses our decisions and restricts our vacillations, I am looking at writing down's potential to illuminate the reality of God’s faithfulness. It isn't our organization and determination the written goal inspires which makes us successful (though it certainly does not hurt); it is God's power to invisibly orchestrate manifestation which is demonstrated in success. God never changes in that we are destined to fulfill scripture—the writing—His goal and ambition. Maybe our writing down highlights the unity of the two. This may also apply to the repeated, focused envisionment of the success desired when the record is reviewed.

If I am not mistaken, in the second link below it was his future wife Willa ("Bill") Neville advised to calculate and write down EXACTLY how much money she anticipated making at the job she desired. The woman got the job, and in her pay envelope she received that amount to the penny! Yes, we used to get paid in cold, hard, fragrant cash. Someone was knocking on her door.

Neville Goddard Book Club (https://www.facebook.com/nevillegoddardbookclub/posts/10158279408800220)

Neville Goddard Taught Her How To Manifest Money Within 24 Hours (http://nevillegoddardquotes.com/neville-goddard-taught-her-how-to-manifest-money-within-24-hours/)

The Power of Writing Down Your Goals (http://time.com/4196996/write-down-goals/)

18 FACTS ABOUT GOALS AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT (http://www.goalband.co.uk/goal-achievement-facts.html)

5 Reasons Why Writing Down Goals Increases The Odds Of Achieving Them (https://www.elitedaily.com/money/writing-down-your-goals/1068863)

The Power of Writing Down Your Goals and Dreams (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/marymorrissey/the-power-of-writing-down_b_12002348.html)

Writing Down Your Goals – The Harvard Written Goal Study. Fact or Fiction? (https://sidsavara.com/fact-or-fiction-the-truth-about-the-harvard-written-goal-study/)

HOW TO MANIFEST – 7 STEPS THAT WORK! (https://www.carmenmarshall.com/how-to-manifest-7-steps-that-work/)
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Here is a relevant excerpt from Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich:

FIRST: Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say “I want plenty of money.” Be Definite as to the amount. (There is a psychological reason for Definiteness which will be described in a subsequent chapter).

SECOND: Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing.)

THIRD: Establish a Definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

FOURTH: Create a Definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

FIFTH: Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

SIXTH: Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. As you read – see and feel and Believe yourself already in possession of the money.
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Here is another relevant excerpt from R. H. Jarrett's IT WORKS, which I now realize I edited some time ago to focus on Eil (the name of God in Aramaic). Oops. Oh well, you can ignore my edits and still see how Jarrett encourages writing down exactly what you want and imagining that you already have it, that you might HAVE it:

The Plan

Write down on paper in order of their importance the things and conditions you really want. Do not be afraid of wanting too much. Go the limit in writing down your wants, what would be “better than the best.” Change the list daily, adding to or taking from it, until you have it about right. Do not be discouraged on account of changes, as this is natural. There will always be changes and additions with accomplishments and increasing desires.

Three Positive Rules Of Accomplishment

1. Read the list of what you want three times each day: morning, noon and night. SCHEDULE SESSIONS FOR THE ACTUAL DOING.
2. Think of what you want as often as possible.
3. Do not talk to any one about your plan except to the Great Power within you, who will unfold to your Objective Mind the method of accomplishment.

It is obvious that you cannot acquire faith at the start. Some of your desires, from all practical reasoning, may seem positively unattainable, but, nevertheless, write them down on your list in their proper place of importance to you.

There is no need to analyze how this Power, Eil within you, is going to accomplish your desires. What is essential is to believe that you HAVE already what you desire—that it is not coming but was already RECEIVED in your past. Trying to figure out HOW Eil is going to do it is as unnecessary as trying to figure out why a grain of corn placed in fertile soil shoots up a green stalk, blossoms and produces an ear of corn containing hundreds of grains, each capable of doing what the one grain did. If you will follow this definite plan and carry out the three simple rules, the method of accomplishment will unfold quite as mysteriously as the ear of corn appears on the stalk, and in most cases much sooner than you expect.

When new desires, deserving position at or about the top of your list, come to you, then you may rest assured you are progressing correctly.

Removing from your list items which at first you thought you wanted, is another sure indication of progress.

It is natural to be skeptical and have doubts, distrust and questionings, but when these thoughts arise, get out your list. Read it over; or if you have it memorized, talk to your inner self about your desires until the doubts that interfere with your progress are gone. Remember, nothing can prevent your having that which you earnestly desire. Others have these things. Why not you?

The Omnipotent Power within YOU, Eil, does not enter into any controversial argument. It is waiting and willing to serve when you are ready, but your objective mind is so susceptible to suggestion that it is almost impossible to make any satisfactory progress when surrounded by skeptics. Therefore, choose your friends carefully and associate with people who now have some of the things you really want—vibrant, lively, successful people—not negative persons or slugs, but do not discuss your method of accomplishment with them.

Put down on your list of wants such material things as money, home, automobile, or whatever it may be, but do not stop there. Be more definite. If you want an automobile, decide what kind, style, price, color, and all the other details, including when you want it. If you want a home, plan the structure, grounds and furnishings.

Decide on location and cost. If you want money, write down the amount. If you want to break a record in your business, put it down. It may be sales record. If so, write out the total, the date required, then the number of items you must sell to make it, also list your prospects and put after each name the sum expected. This may seem very foolish at first, but you can never realize your desires if you do not know positively and in detail what you want and when you want it. If you cannot decide this, you are not in earnest, You must be definite, and when you are, results will be surprising and almost unbelievable.
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It occurs to me that dreamboards are as illustrative writing, virtually writing without words.