I appreciate the positive feedback on my writing, and I’m glad you liked this post!

As you indicated, keeping those goals right in front of us is a powerful process because we never lose sight of what we are working towards.

It’s so easy to fall off track when our lives get busy, but by practicing daily acts of writing down and looking at our goals, it’s just not possible for us to forget what it that we’re supposed to be doing!

I am so glad that you got so much out of this post!

You are absolutely right that we are constantly looking to technology and the latest advances in order to put us on the right path, and to keep us there. The truth of the matter is that all of these things – whether highly advanced, or “old school” – are just tools for us to use.

The REAL accomplishment of our goals comes from consistently staying focused on them, and being grateful for every experience along the way.

Thanks so much for your comment, Hugh!

I’m an audio person myself, as well. I’ve listened to FAR more educational or empowering audio files than movies, DVD’s, or online videos that I’ve watched.

Everyone has their own success system that works best for them, and as long as we use the ways for taking in and remembering the information that serves us, then we’ve accomplished the mission!

That’s a great point about notebooks never locking up or crashing!

Our world is certainly moving towards a much more paperless model, but I hope I’ll always be able to bust out a pen and paper if I really want to.

Thanks for providing that awesome collection of eBooks on your site, Lyman!

I especially like the last three ideas, and in particular the ‘Vision Board’ with the goals and wants plastered all over the place, so they’re never out of mind. I’ve been using things like that for a while now and I noticed immediately a wonderful change in my motivation because I never felt lethargic… I never felt like procrastinating when everything I wanted to work for was RIGHT in front of my fingertips!

Keep up the great work, and I hope you don’t mind if I link to you on occasion!

How many times have we been told that the daily execution of these very simple tasks will successfully engage and stimulate our subconscious minds to manifest the things we desire in our lives? Why do we continue to discount it and avoid its practice?

The answer is simple…we have become technological snobs and have turned our noses up to the rudimentary, tried and true methods of old, in our relentless pursuit of the next, greatest avenue for enlightentment and the attainment of our goals. While there is certainly nothing wrong with keeping up with the latest advances, let us not forget about the practice of the basics that is, after all, absolutely necessary for the manifestation process!

Intellectual “arrogance” has made fools of us all and it is high time that we got back to the basics and discover for ourselves why, for eons, this message about writing out our goals and gratitude list on a daily basis has been repeated over and over, again.

Thank you, Aaron…I got it. This is that day!

I’m with you! My preferred source of reading books is to actually do that – read a real, 3-D, paper book! However, there are plenty of instances where an eBook is either easier, more practical, or simply more convenient, especially if you can read it on a PDA.

I use the eBook to Images program to transfer eBooks to my iPod, and since it has a backlight, I don’t even need to have light to read, which gives me more opportunities to read than I would otherwise have had.

The digital age certianly has, in someways, helped the enviornment by reducing paper such as with email and ebooks.

Because of the convience I find that I send more emails than I ever did mail letters. It sure keeps communicating with friends miles away easy.

I still love to hold a book, but I also love ebooks since I can keep a bunch as attachments on my yahoo account that I can access anywhere. At least anywhere I have internet access.

Save a tree…hug a tree.

Absolutely my pleasure to participate, and thank you so much for the great idea!

Balance and perspective are indeed concepts that we should all keep in mind, and I was glad to be able to write about both sides of this coin in such a positive manner.

Thanks again for the inspiration, Debra!

Much obliged for the positive feedback, and I’m glad you enjoyed the post so much!

It is so easy for people to forget that just waking up at all is worthy of gratitude, and so many people wake up with so much more than just that. I for one believe in giving written thanks for it all!

It’s really amazing, considering the amount of data we’re producing, just how little paper we actually use. It’s not going out of style anytime soon (my notebooks never crash or lock up on me), but eventually we’ll probably be done using paper altogether.

Downloading EverNote now to give it try. Thanks for that pointer as well!

Again, thanks for participating, I appreciate you.

I love this one-liner:

“Did you wake up this morning? Yes? Then you have something to be grateful for.”

That is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

I am so very grateful for your thoughts – keep up the great work!

Stephen Martile
Personal Development Made Simple
http://www.stephenmartile.com