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To truly grasp what’s going on within the New Thought Movement, it’s best to view the entire movement with an open mind. Take a bird’s eye view of the worlds of personal development and spirituality. To do this effectively, we should draw a line between the two so that we could say, “This one’s a spirituality and this one’s personal development.”

Seems easy enough to do in theory, but when you actually set out to draw the boundaries between the two within the frame of the New Thought Movement, the whole thing gets a little foggy. Let me give you an example, “The Ten Commandments” is a clearly a spiritual writting while “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People” is a personal development piece of work. Even though they both contain very similar principles, only one of them has any reference to a “Divine Infinite Intelligent Source”.

The New Thought Movement is so big and pervasive that it encompasses both extremes of this spectrum by including works that are predominantly spiritual in nature as well as works with no spiritual overtones whatsoever.

Enter Spirituality

Their are 3 key elements within the New Thought Movement that make the spectrum complete. Let’s define the three elements and I think it will become easy to understand how the New Thought Movement can be each of these things without needing to be classified as any one or the other:

• Religion: Religion refers to specific practices and commonly held beliefs regarding the nature of divinity within a given group.
• Spirituality: Spirituality refers to the general practice of communing with divinity, but unlike religion, spirituality needs no specific practices or agreed upon beliefs held by a given group. In this way; doing Yoga or playing golf could both be spiritual experiences.
• Personal Development: Personal Development is the practice of becoming one’s ideal self and experiencing one’s ideal situation, with or without the need for the inclusion of divinity.

In many ways all three of these have the same end goal, “Experiencing your ideal self in your ideal situation.” Religion, spirituality, and personal development are simply three different techniques all set out to achieve the same thing which is improved life experiences and “Knowledge of Self”.

How to Bring it all Together with New Thought

Each of the above categories is inherently exclusive, for example: Religions are exclusive because each religion is defined by its unique beliefs and practices. The New Thought Movement on the other hand is special because it’s inclusive instead of exclusive.

As a whole, New Thought Movement adherents accept that everyone everywhere is basically after the same simple goal in life: “To experience their ideal self in their ideal situation.” Some people regard this as being in harmony with the Infinite Intelligent Source, while others regard it as simply being the best person possible. Some people enjoy exact instructions and practices for achieving this goal, others want to forge their own path.

With over 8 million practitioners worldwide, the New Thought Movement is large enough to embrace all three of these distinct viewpoints all at once. There are New Thought Churches, New Thought spiritual centers, and New Thought personal development groups all separate and distinct from one another united under the common belief that we really truly can experience life as our ideal self, in our ideal situations.

Three paths to the same destination, that’s part of what makes it so fun; it’s religion, or spirituality, or personal development, or whatever combination of the three that’s right for the individual! New Thought practitioners have created a path which accepts each person’s unique way as the way that’s right for them.

Brian Maxwell is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of How to Overcome Fear and Create Fortune. After working with some of the worlds brightest minds he shifted his focus to speaking to groups hoping to inspire others to live the life they want and manifest abundance, wealth and happiness. For more information visit: Taking it to the Next Level

Just think about how true that is. The “SECRET” of how to achieve goals is deep within the untapped potential inside of our true self and it is infinite. So many people wander through life without discovering how to achieve goals and never take that extra step beyond what they thought they were capable of.

But if we are not right in our minds, we will never be right in our wallet. So, I would like to spend a little time talking about how to develop mental focus and how to achieve goals.

Many of us have heard the phrase, “The sky is the limit,” but how many of people actually believe it? How many of us were encouraged as children to think outside of the box? How many of us take that extra initiative in our adulthood to stretch beyond what others expect of us and seek the knowledge of how to achieve goals?

As a child, I was fortunate to grow up in a household and in a family where my parents challenged me to stretch my potential all of the time. To learn how to achieve goals I follwed the teachings of wonderful role models - entrepreneurs and business owners. Increasing in knowledge and wisdom is what helped me learn how to achieve goals and to believe that I truly could do whatever I set my mind to.

Regardless of the direction you choose to go in life, you should never just jump in. A major key of how to achieve goals is that every decision requires careful evaluation first, then planning, and finally, action. Remember Proverbs, which says, “The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.” 

When you are truly committed to discover how to achieve goals and manifest your desires and if you are willing to do what it takes to see them through to the end, then the Universe will help you through. Often times, you already have what we need to achieve the goal. You just may not know it.

But their is an Infinite Intelligent power that can multiply what you have to help you get achieve your goals. The key to how to achieve goals is summed up in a story I once read, a widow was worried about her ability to pay back her husband’s debtors. The creditors were threatening to take her sons as slaves. All she had was a little oil, but a wise man told her to pour the oil into as many jars as she could find. Her oil was able to fill every jar. Not only was there enough to pay off the creditors, but there was also enough for her and her sons to live on.

In the same way, you should look really carefully at what you already have. Determine how you might be able to use what you already have in order to get to where you want to be and achieve your goals.

Don’t think that you havn’t been given unique talents. Each of us has been given something. It is our mission and purpose in life to figure out what it is. Sure, some may seem to have more than others, but the truth is that all has equal power and abililty to achieve goals and manifest abundance in our life. An important step on how to achieve goals is to give our full attention to make those talents multiply.

But there is a better way to look at how to achieve goals. Think about it this way: The Infinite Intelligence of the Source (GOD) knows that we have a lot more heart - more drive and ambition - than we believe we do. You just need to believe it, too, and kick it into high gear and give it some gas.

We should take advantage of the chances and opportunities we get in life. Don’t let it slip by you. The only thing that can stop you from achieving your goals  is you. Push your limits and do some amazing things. I wish you only the best!

Brian Maxwell is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of How to Overcome Fear and Create Fortune. After working with some of the worlds brightest minds he shifted his focus to speaking to groups hoping to inspire others to live the life they want and manifest abundance, wealth and happiness. For more information visit: Taking it to the Next Level