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are exempt from what is known, up to this point, in some instances it can profoundly disadvantage us among others who do.  To some degree this shortcoming will also be reflected in our children and all depending upon us.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>People lacking the ability to rationally define goals correctly have always been disadvantaged.  Today we know, absolutely, that nothing can replace the key role a correctly defined goal plays in higher rational functions.  So if one does not know how goals work, or what makes a “goal” a functional goal, chances are nearly 100% they will come to the end of their days with their song still within them; their hopes, and greater dreams stillborn as they remained </B><B>mere wishes</B><B>, </B><B>not</B><B> </B><B>defined</B><B> </B><B>goals</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If you do </B><B>not</B><B> know how to rationally define goals, you are doomed to work for or be controlled by people who do.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Rational illiteracy is common at this time, so we see people attempting to use “will power,” “determination,” even hypnosis to replace the higher-level functions </B><B>only</B><B> a legally defined goal does naturally, and with ease.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What a goal does is at a higher level than you can </B><B>directly access</B><B> consciously.  And, the harder you try, the greater the degree of failure.  There is a universal law defining this:  “In higher mental functions, the harder you </B><B>don't try</B><B>, the </B><B>better it works</B><B>.”  Remember that the next time you are self-conscious and try to remember something, or when attempting to do anything that is otherwise naturally easy and effortless. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You may remember driving somewhere and the process was so “automatic” you remember almost nothing about the journey.  The same “higher level” that did the driving while your mind was occupied elsewhere, is like the “higher level” function a correctly defined goal fulfills for you.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We have learned that “words” are the tools you use to “think.”  Then we learned that rational “terms” are the tools you use to process rational “thought.”  Words have widely variable meanings depending upon how they are used.  Whereas, rational “terms” have a universal definition based upon some universal law that is inviolate.  We have rational terms, medical terms, legal terms, and so on.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To begin, the rational term “goal” is vital to you, and irreplaceable.  Goal is one of not-more-than ten of your </B><B>key core operating system</B><B> </B><B>terms</B><B> (Similar to a computer's DOS), controlling key operations in rational outcome.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>All your rational conclusions depend upon this small core of </B><B>terms</B><B>.  Your quality of logic depends on whether you just assume, or actually know the </B><B>term's universal “factor value</B><B>.”  In math, you know the universal </B><B>factor value</B><B> of “5” is a </B><B>factor</B><B> of 5, so the outcome in any rational equation is assured. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When we “think” of a rational question, we compose that sentence using ordinary word meanings, as well as hundreds of ordinary rational terms </B><B>outside</B><B> of the ten-or-less core processing terms in our rational vocabulary.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The small core of key terms has the role of sorting ordinary word meanings, as well of the rest of the more general rational terms, to give them value and direction.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When we “reason” for a logical answer, we use any number of the “more general terms” to form the “sentence” asking the rational level a question.  The purpose of the “question,” defined is to get back an accurate logical conclusion not corrupted by emotion.  This is NOT an automatic process as we ARE emotional beings first, and rational last.  Lacking a functional rational term “meaning,” one defaults to an emotional reactive conclusion, not a rationally responsive solution.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Without a working legal definition (*nomological) of “goal,” </B><B>some rational functions</B><B>, </B><B>which are critical to human achievement</B><B>, </B><B>do not exist</B><B>. No other process can be substituted to avoid a dysfunctional logic and flawed outcome from the rational process.  (*Nomos means law.) </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>“Goal” is a key rational term that ultimately factors and defines personal abilities, especially what each individual considers “success” in life.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The goal function is absolute in its power and </B><B>totally in charge</B><B> of determining what will be an individual's lifetime totals at the time of their passing; specifically, their level of success.  (Success in rational context is </B><B>not</B><B> the usual “just liking” whatever your life gives you.  Success is getting what you want from life).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Goal is one of the core of no-more-than ten key operational terms </B><B>in charge</B><B> of the </B><B>overall guiding principles of the rational process</B><B>, </B><B>defining all aspects of every rational query</B><B> you will ever have.  Remember these core terms process, direct, and quantify </B><B>all the other “words</B><B>” that form the questions to which you seek rational answers, </B><B>then goes on to define the solution given</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is the assumed characterization given to (1) all rational terms, (2) especially the ten-or-less key operational core terms, and (3) the general rational vocabulary terms, which (A) defines a reflection of one's character, (B) the validity of rational conclusions, as well as (C) conclusions in the syntax (the meaning) of what </B><B>to you</B><B> </B><B>is reality</B><B>, and (D) what is possible, or not possible, for you.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This syntax or legal definition of a core rational term could be said to be one </B><B>that is in harmony with the known laws of the physical universe</B><B>, which is to say “in the same codebook of meanings” used by the universe.  I am </B><B>not comfortable</B><B> with this quote as, to me, it seems too flippant, but in physics it is said, “The Laws of physics are the mind of “God.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For illustration of legal definition, as it would apply to one of the ten-or-less key operational terms, let us use a word that IS NOT ONE OF THE CORE TERMS, but a </B><B>general vocabulary</B><B> rational term, and is a “word” in which its definition of universal physics' law is known by all:  “Gravity.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>If one assumes “gravity” on earth includes </B><B>exceptions</B><B> on an individual basis, the syntax is flawed.  The question to jump from one building to the rooftop of the next would lack validly.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We say “validity” since we “break” social law or statutes; one “violates” the laws of physics.  Applied to rationality, a “violation” within a rational term results in a conclusion lacking “validity.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In a less rigid manner than the ten-or-less terms in our basic rational “core-meaning” terms, or all other rational terms, even ordinary words can be used in a rational context in which they also function as a pseudo-term with the role of quantifying the validly of the statement.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is the rigid legal or technically contextual “meanings” that distinguish rational terms from everyday word meanings, which, unlike terms, are uncertain and subject to individual definitions decided at the moment by the subject (person) using the word.  This on-the-spot definition for convenience is </B><B>subjectivity</B><B>, opposite the pre-defined </B><B>objectivity</B><B> of terms, which are keyed to an objective, and their “meaning” defining an application of universal law.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>One of the key roles of defining legal, therefore functional “goals,” is to establish one's</B><B> objectives</B><B>.</B><B>  </B><B>Without a goal,</B><B> </B><B>one reverts to a level of “</B><B>subjectivity</B><B>.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There are millions upon millions of people known to lack rationally defined goals.  Without a working goal in the psyche, they define all decisions </B><B>subject to</B><B> their wants of the moment, and not a greater objective, or even an obvious purpose, </B><B>if it is inconvenient</B><B> and/or </B><B>possible to fabricate a way to justify their exception</B><B>, to avoid being held accountable.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For centuries the same word (note “word”) has been used to classify a level of the culture, such as “</B><B>Subjects</B><B> to The Crown,” or, more commonly, a nation's “</B><B>subjects</B><B>.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In addition to the common use of the “word” “subjects,” </B><B>there is also a formal term with the same label</B><B>:  “</B><B>Subjects</B><B>,” in a </B><B>social context</B><B> defines a universal class of individuals who lack a goal quantifier and habitually behave </B><B>subjectively</B><B>, making decisions and taking actions </B><B>subject to</B><B> interests of the moment without regard to a greater purpose or objective.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The awareness that a large portion of humanity are of the </B><B>subjective classification</B><B> has been understood, and a </B><B>challenge</B><B> to culture, for centuries.  Within the circle of the founding fathers of The United States were enough professionals to make certain all designers understood the dilemma posed by </B><B>subjects</B><B>.  Specifically, how, in a Democracy, the </B><B>subjective class</B><B> would base their vote on a </B><B>subjective</B><B> self-interest of that moment, not of the nation's great </B><B>objectives</B><B> for its future growth and prosperity.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This seemingly impossible flaw for long-term integrity for the nation was unavoidable, as at any point the subjective class could expand to exceed 50% and void any possibility of election objectivity.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The solution was to move away from the “one man, one vote” scenario of a strict Democracy, and form a “Republic,” in which voters selected a representative to cast a single vote for their district.  The elected representative was to be a safety measure in which, in times of high emotional turmoil, and a high level of subjective wants, the single elected official </B><B>would not lose sight of the greater objective</B><B>, and cast his lot accordingly. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This cure, as it was defined by the Founding Fathers, reflected an understanding of how, without an unchanging value of a rational objective, a goal, stability was impossible.  Stability is a characteristic of rational terms, just as stability of purpose is a characteristic of one with correctly defined goals.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In addition to stability, a legal goal provides empowerment beyond what you can do for yourself at a conscious level:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We live in a cause and effect world, and terms such as “goal” in particular, provide </B><B>the cause of specific effects you cannot bring about directly at a conscious level</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For example, one can consciously create a </B><B>shadow</B><B> of enthusiasm; though it is not sustainable as such impetus is driven by will power.  A shadow cannot even cast another shadow.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Will power is focused by one's attention span, thus subject to the limits of the concentration's duration, which tends to be no more than two hours in older generations of the analog era.  And, this should give you pause: Among younger generations of the digital era, that time period averages three minutes, or less.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In particular, how your higher rational process uses a legally defined “</B><B>goal</B><B>” </B><B>is the alpha and omega of generating motivation</B><B>.  In a </B><B>cause and effect</B><B> pattern, one must first correctly define the chosen goal (as you will soon learn how).  Once installed, the defined goal provides the cause, which installs as a </B><B>motive</B><B>.  The </B><B>motive is the cause of the effect</B><B> of true motivation, “true” in as much as it is “the real thing,” and out of reach of automatic emotional dilution.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To clarify term definition's relationship to law; a universal law in a nomological aspect is no different than a universal law of physics, such as the law that defines the effect of gravity.  So too does a nomological law define cause and effect in the rational process, such as defining the effect of true motivation.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It could be the scriptwriter knew this, as in this paraphrase from the movie, “When Harry met Sally:”  “Once you figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life, you're anxious to get started.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Goal and the rest of the basic core of key terms, also determines </B><B>one's level of functionality</B><B> in life at </B><B>whatever</B><B> level, circumstance, or situation presented at the moment as part of disappointment </B><B>or</B><B> triumph.  Curiously, success is more difficult to manage than mediocrity.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Terms quantify raw data to interpret the rational clarity required to evolve to the top of your potential, then “go on line” to define the depth of “wisdom” you would never arrive at on your own, to manage whatever you define as “success.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In the most basic analogy, even with its remarkable power, without the “goal factor,” your rational mind is not equipped to know where to cut the first board or drive the first nail.  Nothing takes place at this objective-only level until it has something in its language, which could be labeled a blueprint, a direction, and a destination.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Neither you, nor anyone else, have a direct channel for dialogue with the controlling level, the “Head Objectives Director” of your own rational “mind.”  You are not designed to address it directly, as this would allow emotional directives through the gate into a rational realm where emotions contaminate a “sterile” environment, and, possibly, even lead you into “deep waters” where you may need over $100 an hour professional assistance to re-float your boat.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To be sure this denial of emotional directives is impossible to circumvent, the “Director” cannot hear you, or, in a sense, accept your language, as it only accepts properly submitted input in a form it is able to read: “Read” from what could be called a “blueprint,” which is a legally defined goal.  It </B><B>then takes over and looks to the big picture, the objective of the plan with a mastery far above conscious abilities</B><B>.  Only then is your true potential and rational power brought to bear as, </B><B>only at this level is there access</B><B> to activate higher-level abilities, such as motivation, which </B><B>you will never be capable of effecting from a conscious level</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Of this there is no doubt, in ways beyond the ways and means you would “never come up with” in your lifetime, even times two, the goal aspect </B><B>will</B><B> bring about ideas, solutions, even information previously erased from access </B><B>by your conscious memory</B><B>, or whatever else is needed, to bring the project “home.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On the other hand, there are never-ending examples of millions of frustrated souls having gone before you, who spent their lifetimes shouting their </B><B>wishes</B><B> to their “rational building contractor:” “Build me a house!”  Being ignored, of course, since, it lacks the building instructions, the blueprint to read and follow.  So with nothing given, nothing is what they get.  Nor do they get, it appears, clues from the examples of the “goal enriched” getting the riches of life.  The same often say that “rich people” are either “lucky or crooked.”  In rational context, the only way to true riches is to </B><B>enrich others</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There is a universal unwillingness for people to accept that they already have all they need, to get what they truly want and need; that the </B><B>actual deficit</B><B> they have is the </B><B>lack of know-how</B><B> to use, in this instance, the range of rationality they have had installed since birth.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Perhaps the most problematic of all, however, is the reality that since rational literacy is not part of present culture's paradigm (pattern of reality) most would not take the concept of rational applications seriously.  Not even if that know-how was given to them and told what it does; that is, until they are ready.  “When you are ready, the teacher will come.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In any area of thought in which one “doesn't know anything,” they do not believe anything within that context.  To the professional seeking to inform, </B><B>a balance between providing the solution, as well as the background to establish credibility</B><B>, is sort of like the dilemma of “which comes first, the egg or the chicken?”  In the conveying of the “knowing” of the rational process, one can only offer “the groundwork,” plant the seeds of definition, and hope it gets enough attention to grow into “knowing how.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You may not have the qualities to be a basketball star, or the time to develop into a concert pianist.  </B><B>If you have within you the capacity to define a rational goal in rational context, however, it is proof you already have what it takes to bring it “home</B><B>.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>One of the comments on one's ability to achieve their goals that has stood the test of time is paraphrased as “whatever goal your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You have all you need, and can earn title to all you decide you want.  This all depends, however, on giving credit where, perhaps, none exists, which is to you, minus the debit of doubt.  Establish a new level of credibility for yourself.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then one day at a time, for just that day, rather than mind your emotions, make them mind you.  Teach them to hope, by careful attention to how you and they talk, and this, knowing your emotions chatter, mostly nonsense, and nonstop.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You need to; you must, </B><B>always</B><B>, get your goal in your mind </B><B>first</B><B>, in first place, before some emotion fills the space and forms a clot.  This is the key point to know:  </B><B>Once emotion has installed “a feeling,” your conscious mind cannot think it away</B><B>!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Your emotional and rational </B><B>opposites</B><B> are what you should think of as the “we” that is “me.”  The emotions have their role as well, and only defeat the greater purpose by default, when your rational side is absent from its caretaker role, and/or gets sloppy.  Though the rational has the role of management and guidance, its supervision should be measured out with a conscious and careful balance between discipline and emotional reward.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The bottom line is to be the master where that is the natural role, and be sure to appreciate that your rational aspect is only half your whole.  Emotion only leads to pandemonium when it fills a void neglected by the rational “mind.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As long as the rational does it job, both sides can be what nature intended them to be.  Emotions don't grow up.  So in personal management the question in play is always the same:  Who is in charge?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The day-to-day care and feeding of emotions can either enrich us, or be the source of a lifetime of emotional fleabites and the diseases they may carry, and they carry quite a few.  How many psychiatric professionals are listed in your phone book, on staff in schools, law enforcement, personal departments, advertising, and pharmaceuticals?  What about the thousands earning their living serving the millions who “self-medicate” </B><B>abusing</B><B> spirits, drugs, and seeking relief in all the wrong places</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The same as you, every one of my tomorrows can keep getting better for me, but that is all up to me.  The proper understanding of limitations, the care and feeding of emotions results in them supporting rational objectives, or else doing what comes naturally for them: filling the void where rational objectives should be in place.  If you need an example of outcomes when emotions define objectives, read your paper, watch the news, or look just outside your door.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>That is as true for all of humanity, as it is to you.  All you can </B><B>be</B><B>, or</B><B> do</B><B>, is at some level processed through the rational context of the term “goal.”  There are problems, however, in installing “goal” we need to address to get them out of your way.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Credibility issues, both of what “goals” brings to mind, and the helpless self-image that often follows, easily defeats any and all, as it has for centuries.  Lacking rational literacy, consider the rarity of people who do push through their pile of emotional waste and get to bloom</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The </B><B>lack of a credibility factor</B><B>, when people think of “goals,” is universal.  Yet the reality of a true “goal” is opposite the more common perception of just another way to define a “New Year's Resolution,” that also doesn't work.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The reality is because </B><B>our “minds” are primarily goal seeking mechanisms</B><B>, we are inherently “created” to seek whatever </B><B>we</B><B> </B><B>designate</B><B> as success.  A constant progression toward an objective accomplishment is a natural option.  Whereas, mediocrity is unnatural and a source of anxiety, frustration, the inability to be “happy,' and an outlook shadowed by an ever-present lugubrious cloud of near-despair.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>People get into trouble lacking goals, as this </B><B>means</B><B> they don't even know what “success” would mean to them, other than “effects,” such as “lot of money,” “be happy,” and other platitudes.  Be advised that “</B><B>effects” are NOT goals</B><B>, and will not install as rational goals.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is absolutely impossible for one to be “healthy,” either emotionally, or in their conscious attitude, without the element of success defined, first by their goals, and second, the </B><B>progression toward</B><B> those goals.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The successful </B><B>progression</B><B> toward your goals </B><B>is the source</B><B> of all that falls under the label of “bliss,” which includes joy, contentment, “happiness,” and on and on.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Be aware that all you experience under the “bliss” label is not in achieving your goal, but in the journey to it; just as you are “happier” on the way to the restaurant, than afterwards; just as you are much more “alive” prior to opening your gifts.  Life is “a journey,” not a one-time sprint to the finish line.  Your life will be “blissful” only to the degree you are moving toward your “goals.”  (“Bliss” is one of your ten-or-less core operating terms, which is defined in a later chapter.)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The frustration, madness, self-medication, distress, and human suffering are but symptoms rooted in loss of hope of finding the fulfillment from success; all of which begins with a legally defined goal.   Winning is required by a part of us that was installed, and already “in need” at time of birth.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Today, the common meaning of “goal” is NOT taken seriously; much less any awareness - this in a time of rational illiteracy -- that goal is a rational term.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oddly enough, the common dismissal of the importance of establishing “goals” is valid and well justified by personal experience, knowing it does not work for them.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Nor should it “work,” as “goal” is understood and applied universally.  This is because around 95% of the total population confuses the “meaning” of goal with that of a “wish.”  One cannot have a basis for the credibility of “goal,” until one has a rational handle on the application and principles, knows what it defines, how it is employed, and what it does that ONLY it can.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The primary </B><B>synonym for </B><B>“</B><B>goal</B><B>” in rational context is “</B><B>sight</B><B>.”  This, as “goal” should be thought of as having a parallel application in rational functions as does the gift of sight in the body.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To fully appreciate the role of a correctly defined “goal” we would do best to expand the analogy of “goals” to “sight.”  So, at this point, one needs to consider a critical distinction, one in which you may have had no instance or, for that matter, a need to have pondered previously:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Your eyes are the instruments used to see.  You see </B><B>only with “the aid</B><B>” of your eyes. Nor do you read with your eyes, but read with the aid of your eyes feeding you the information to areas as distant as the back your head.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In the gift of being “sighted,” a greater process, beyond the eyes' role as an instrument, comes into play.  In using the aid of your eyes to read, for example, it is your “rational software” in the form of rational terms, as well as “word meanings” that defines the printed words.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The words you read, it should be emphasized, include the thousands of common words not part of the rational term vocabulary. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>They do include, however, mixed within, </B><B>the full array of various rational terms</B><B> in the rational vocabulary that is a rather large and varied lexicon of terms, which are not part of the ten-or-less key operating system terms having the most critical factor values within rational processing.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Rather, common rational vocabulary terms are used in a more casual manner to make up the dialog in sentences defining information, and then to form sentences used to address questions for rational consideration (reasoning).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Here is an example of rational vocabulary terms, as </B><I><B>highlighted</B></I><B>, with a single underline beneath </B><B>the only core operational term used</B><B>, *</B><B>responsible</B><B>.  (*The core rational term “responsible,” its full definition and factor value will be given in later chapters; briefly, however, “responsible” defines, </B><B>in power</B><B>, </B><B>in control</B><B>):</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Here is the sentence:  “</B><I><B>I</B></I><B> am </B><I><B><U>responsible</U></B></I><B>, so </B><B>I</B><B> </B><I><B>have</B></I><B> the </B><I><B>power</B></I><B> to </B><I><B>act</B></I><B>.  It is in </B><B>my</B><B> </B><I><B>interest</B></I><B> to be </B><I><B>accountable</B></I><B> for the </B><I><B>cost</B></I><B> should it go </B><I><B>wrong</B></I><B>.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I, responsible, have, power, act, interest, accountable, cost,</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>and</B></FONT><B> </B><B>wrong</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>are the rational terms.</B></FONT><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>“Is, in, be, for, should, & go”</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>are just part of the phrasing that makes a sentence</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Short and sweet, or long and deep, vocabulary terms can do both.  Vocabulary terms remain a vast mess of meanings, </B><B>but have no judgment of logical implication until given a factor value by the small core operational terms</B><B>, which puts the period at the end of the meaning, even defines your </B><B>rational response</B><B> to what the sentence “means.”  If, however, the message </B><B>hits an emotional “button</B><B>,” it would default from a rational response level, and evoke an </B><B>emotional reaction</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Consider the </B><B>importance</B><B> to you, and the </B><B>power</B><B>, of the rational term “goal,” as it is one of the no-more-than ten rational terms of your “DOS-like” basic core operating system.  Also be aware these core terms do even more than underwrite the logistics, give value, and determine the keys to rational summation in reading, and all else. They have another, rather important function:  To </B><B>match-up</B><B> ideas, to </B><B>link</B><B> with similar ideas, </B><B>information, or refinement, thus </B><B>to help make the new data </B><B>a part of your memory</B><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Also, the quality and accuracy of the reading and processing of thousands of words in incalculable variations of sentence structure, and context, is determined by what you assume to be the legal definitions, or, “meanings” of this small core of operational terms.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Something else to consider: Your gift of sight is given, in varying degrees, to other species, such as your pet and other beings in nature.  As I have confirmed with my own Kitty Fat, the Butter Bean, some have vision superior to ours in certain areas.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This ability includes the capacity to visualize in the dark, and to use visual acuity to survive and thrive in an environment where we could not.  True, these other beings do not require most of the “necessities” I, personally, could never do without.  Though I consider some of my limiting options superior to Butter Bean's open options, it did shame me, however, from complaint after a sharp price increase in bathroom tissue.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In spite of human limitations, and our “physical being” tied to paper products, do focus on the unique aptitude you have, and have in such abundance that in a lifetime no more than a fraction is needed or developed.  (The belief today is no more than 3% of rational potential is accessed.  This excludes, I believe, some politicians).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In addition to “sight,” there are other synonyms for the term “goal” that further define what it does, which further helps one grasp how much your quality of life depends on this term's “meanings.”  They are “Navigator,” “Plotter,” “Compass Setting” -- not, for example, to determine north or south poles as the compass itself, but its singular insight, or vision, to “read” the dial and relate the flow of your momentum to which direction leads to your goal's “home” address.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Another parallel “meaning” is “calculator,” though of a specialized sort determining critical assessments, especially such as any rational inquiry used to factor whether the cost of something moves you closer to “home,” or is a sidetrack wasting resources, a function we playfully label “The rabbit chase factor.”  The public has sometimes used a derogatory label for this function, “cold and calculating.”  The reality is, while the power of terms is primarily used for good, thought power can be used either way.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What is true for sight, as something we do with the “aid” of our eyes, is also accurate for the other senses.  To say you hear a conversation “with your ears,” or, a signature is produced “by your hand,” or, “it is your “mind” that rationally processes a thought;” </B><B>all are inaccurate</B><B>.  This, as all these refer to a level of physical </B><B>aids</B><B> needing to interoperate with another level for interpretation and functionality.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Also the spoken words you hear require something more than instrumentation to transpose raw stimuli into </B><B>comprehension</B><B>.  In addition to rational terms, that “something else” includes a mix of the everyday common word “meanings” that are “written” in memory as to your personal definitions.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Once more, however, all the variation and clutter of words are </B><B>managed</B><B>, </B><B>given value</B><B>, and </B><B>quantified</B><B>, according to what a rational aspect of definition means to you, and a rational process quantified and underwriting all this with the ten-or-less factor values of rational terms within your core processing system.  This includes the function of characterizing a rational theme as </B><B>true</B><B>, or </B><B>maybe not</B><B>, and so on -- all this, and more -- by the small, but all-powerful core operating system.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Mr. Bill Gates and his associates awe me, with their empowering beyond comprehension, the direction and the very future of the world for the better.  All this is possible because of a basic </B><B>operation system</B><B> that, in a large sense, runs the modern world, which is almost identical to your core operation system.  My concept of his wealth is that Bill and Melinda Gates cannot be paid what their contribution is worth, as the world could not afford it, nor afford not to.  Send him and his your blessings, not stones.  Remember: the rational definition of “rich” is an effect from the cause of “enriching” others.</B></div> <div> <B>9999</B></div> <div> <B>Likewise, remember that YOU have </B><B>your own rational operating system</B><B> just waiting for you to develop.  Only, your rational operating system does not just control the flow of data from a disk, but </B><B>the very stuff, which you define as “your life</B><B>.”  Do be sure you add the software of rational terms, and, this much for sure, you will change your world!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We begin the term definition of “goal” with the primary rules that define the critical difference between a viable “goal,” and that of the ephemeral nature of a “wish,” and the typical cardboard “wish houses” people today assume to be their “goals.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In everyday conversation, </B><B>people describe their wishes</B><B> to be “goals.”  Such as, “My `goal' is to lose weight, this time!”  Basing this assumption on the common notion that will power and sheer determination have direct access to transforming powers.  Frankly, it just doesn't work that way; never has and never will, and the physical universe -- your universe -- does not make exceptions.  To have the power of </B><B>motivation</B><B>, you need </B><B><U>the goal to establish</U></B><B><U> a </U></B><B><U>motive</U></B><B>, as you cannot do that yourself directly.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There are various reasons for the credibility “problems,” and the general concept of a goal as some notion best ignored.  Usually, people make a wish or resolution; however, filing this formal “brief” without using a proper procedure is the equivalent of attempting to install a “sky hook” in midair.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As we now move to the rules of installing “goal,” be clear of how you think of “motivation” as it relates to a working goal:  One establishes (1) an objective goal.  When one has established an objective goal, not a wish, (2) </B><B>the goal then provides a “motive</B><B>,” something you cannot do directly:  You may only define the objective, the goal.  The </B><B>rationally installed motive</B><B> is what (3) then supplies </B><B>motivation</B><B> at its highest level.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Which leads us to how this works, and the only way it will for you.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>The first rule of a true goal is inviolate:</B></div> <div> <B>In rational context it is:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>IT  IS  NOT  A  GOAL</B></div> <div> <B>IT  IS  ONLY  A  WISH</B></div> <div> <B>…UNTIL  AND  UNLESS …</B></div> <div> <B>PUT  INTO  WRITTEN  FORM.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This requirement is also the “failure pit” that claims a high percentage of the souls counseled and given this prescription, even though it would transform all that follows thereafter, for the rest of their lives, and even go on to influence their children.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I have experienced that over half of the subjects given the “written rule” are unable to grasp the significance enough to take it seriously.  The majority will reason to themselves that as long as they know their goals, </B><B>they are an exception</B><B>, and can skip the “nonsense” of defining their goals in writing.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As odd as the act of putting goals into writing seems at first, it is absolutely vital in other key areas! Entering them into written form causes you to actually decide (resolve) what you want, admit it (accept at levels above emotion), and commit it to writing (becoming a legally filed resolution in initiative form), but most of all, converts the directive to an </B><B>objective form</B><B>, versus a subjective form.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Had your thought remained a wish, it would soon fade, as notions are meant to do, being only momentarily conscious, and resting on an ephemeral foundation where thoughts are subject to the variable and constant waves of emotions.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The act of articulating thought in writing not only requires translation of thought to a higher level, it requires you to define the thought, and translate it into the meaningful form your highest-level of rational functioning will accept.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Once defined in written form, you have just changed the thought desire from a short-lived subjective wish to an objective.  It is now in the </B><B>only language</B><B> your highest rational level takes seriously enough to acknowledge, and will use for directives it must act upon.  It moves the objective transformation to the rarefied uniqueness of the preconscious level of rational process.  In any event, to a place you cannot go to directly, just send directives to.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Rational processes at the level of where the term “goal” is installed remains “centered” above and beyond the day-to-day “noise,” and at a level where it is unaffected by your good or bad days.  One could say that as reliable and dependable as your heartbeat, it, too, does its role at a somewhat similar level that is removed from distractions.  You can no more consciously request you heart to stop than you can consciously request your higher rational functions to help you gain a wish.  It takes a goal!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Do remember this, and make the next two distinctions part of your understanding as they further define rational function related to the term “goal:”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>(1) Your casual thoughts </B><B>objectify themselves</B><B> minute by minute, by their own design; a process defined, (</B><B>NOT in a negative context</B><B>) as intellectual masturbation. It does so by default when no rational objective is in charge, subjectively, subject to the prevailing emotions of the moment.  The delivered conclusions lack accuracy, or value to define beyond the moment.  It is part of a natural function, however, that keeps the process healthy, in shape and ready when called upon.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>(2) In contrast, the function of your rational process at higher levels is to </B><B>objectify rational objectives</B><B> at a high rational level where they are free of emotional nonsense, yet, safely use the energy of emotions to power the effort.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Once your goals are in writing, it also helps to think on paper regarding actions available to you to start the process needed to achieve your goals.  It starts the flow of solutions.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Higher mental functions prefer “thinking on paper,” as it also brings to bear the additional aptitude of language, especially with regard to terms used within the thought itself.  When defining to a rational level, a pencil is handy, just as when you are working with the rational terms defining the factor values in the language of math.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is possible you may have no real concept of what you want from life, until you sit down and list them.  Do so realistically, yet, make your list as if you can achieve whatever you actually decide you want.  I remember a remarkable quote from a remarkable person saying that as he came to the end of his days, he believed that if God could get us to do just one thing, he suspected it would be to decide what we wanted.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We do know, however, that something extraordinary happens once we do decide, and it has been expressed many ways over the years.  It is that once we define our goals, unseen, unexpected, and unexplainable forces appear to aid us.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Others have said that people can have most anything they want from life, IF they would but decide on what it was.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I suspect some may dismiss this complete paragraph entirely.  I say, give it a few years and then come back to it.  Anyway, here are my personal thoughts to you:  I posit the following as certain and written in stone:  In ways most will never grasp, the fact is that some element of our universe, that we may never define, deeply and profoundly loves you; would move mountains, change the flow of streams, and other “things” you are not equipped to believe, if you would but decide and commit to “a </B><B>destination</B><B>,” a goal to express “</B><B>your destiny</B><B>” with even a candlepower of faith in the wonder you are.  You are also part of something larger, you are not an isolated entity unto yourself.  Life may disappoint you at times; however, you still get the easiest side of that equation, as when you suffer “disappointment,” the universe “grieves.”  Now, back to pure science!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>With the goal in writing</B><B>, and thought given to the goal and preliminary considerations on actions to achieve it then, </B><B>you must put down a DATE for achieving it</B><B>.  Just be sure it is an achievable time frame, and believable.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Once your goal is dated, </B><B>you then need to think about it daily</B><B>, and do so within what may seem a strange requirement:  </B><B><U>You must always think about a goal in the present tense, as if it already exists</U></B><B><U>, or </U></B><B><U>your higher process will not easily accept it</U></B><B>.  I should add that since this regular replay in your imagination to empower your goals is </B><B>emotionally driven</B><B>, in the highest sense, the rational term for this emoting is “</B><B>ruminating</B><B>.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This “pretending” your goal already exists is really quite odd, but absolutely accurate, and this is especially difficult for members of western cultures to do or take seriously.  Here is why:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This, too, is “odd,” however, if you are of a western culture, particularly American, as I am, you do not have a rationally-workable context of “time.”  Yes, I am serious.  We have a </B><B>single element of time</B><B> in our rational reference, which may explain to you why most of our culture cannot “frame” time past next payday.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Our western concept of “time” is no different than counting and totaling beans… and most cannot conceive other elements of space and time accurately.  Whereas, there are other cultures that instill “time” correctly using all four elements of time, and, what I find curious, is some have little or no education whatever, cannot read, or write, and yet, even the children clearly grasp time in all three of its elements, as if they held a doctorate in quantum physics!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As the daily ruminating of your goals </B><B><U>is always done in the context of already having the goal</U></B><B>, you must learn to do this without reservation, dropping the “not really” attitude.  In quantum physics we have, at first, a tendency to define a contradictory function on the quantum level to that of our reality at our level of perception with, “</B><B>Yes, but, what is really happening</B><B>?”  Such as, for example, in our world, unlike quantum physics' realm, it is considered impossible to be at two different locations simultaneously.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Only when one </B><B>fully</B><B> </B><B>comprehends</B><B> quantum principles, </B><B>accepts the principals</B><B> of law </B><B>at the quantum level</B><B>, do they lose the need to find some level of justification for what “is real” to them, and what they are being asked to accept.  When they finally “get it,” the need to confirm their lack of grasp </B><B>with the “really question</B><B>” is abandoned.  They lose the doubt, but gain the power to broker applications at the quantum level.  Likewise, you can gain power to broker at a rationally empowering level.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So, too, you must frame your goal as if it already existed and drop the, “but, I am </B><B>really</B><B> here in the here and now.”  Of course you are, however, frame you goal as such and where you “really are” is where you are going to be right up to your expiration date.  Unless you are willing to education yourself on the realities of “time,” I suggest you just get over it, and project to the believability of the goal achieved.  Then add the meaning of “silly” as to how people describe “different” based upon what they lack in knowledge.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Establishing goals is one of the proven centerpieces of our present understanding of the rational process.  The rational level must eternally defend itself from emotional interference.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So it is something of a paradox to add that </B><B>what “rationally empowers” a goal is strong emotional focus</B><B>, which you </B><B>feed DAILY</B><B> with as positive and vivid a depth of reality and imagination as you can muster.  Do this with the same level of intensity as was given sexual fantasies at age 21.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Your rational process “reasons,” when the so-called “thoughts” are emotional, it is ruminating, not actually “thinking” in the sense in which most people define thought.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Telling others of your goals is an absolute no-no</B><B>!  They are your personal goals once they are defined for, and by, you.  The reality is that if you share your goal with others, that act will almost always void it.  The rational term for this voiding is “</B><B>dissipation</B><B>.”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For the goal to be accepted and validated, the goal must be uniquely personal to you</B><B>.  It cannot be directly for your mate, your children, your favorite cause.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is profound that in this age of rational illiteracy as few as 3% will ever put a goal in writing.  Most that lack this access to power, transfer frustration and blame, yet never really know the source of their symptoms.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Once you have defined a total of ten goals in writing, and visit them daily, you are already in the top 5% of the population and on your way to join the 3%.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>What goals do in some areas is truly remarkable.  Some of the results are simply too unusual (or, “in the range of strange,” my children would have said) to be fully explained in words, and are best experienced.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Goal empowerment instills processes in people that are beyond remarkable, and regularly does this with so-called “ordinary people.”  I suggest it best to know about one of these so you can observe it, but best you don't talk about it, until you know about it from actual experience.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I give this particular example as it so intrigues me I cannot help myself but include it:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We know that when you properly define a goal, it actually follows a universal law.  This is “the law of attraction,” which states, “What you want, now wants you even more.” Don't you just love that phrase of law?  I suspect Brian Tracy wrote it.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In the form of a visual analogy of this effect, if someone were observing your life from afar, they would see your goal move towards you at a greater rate than you ever move towards it.  Of course the dilemma is that this sounds irrational, yet the pattern exists absolutely.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Another effect is just as striking, though one easy to check, also this effect will be evident to you when you get the solution to a goal properly committed for resolution:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Regardless of how many multiples of steps, the solution will appear </B><B>perfect and complete in every detail</B><B>.  It will also come with </B><B>all the drive and motivation needed</B><B> to bring it about.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I am particularly appreciative of the sometimes-astounding “completeness” of solutions delivered from the goal-level of the rational process.  Professional associates often describe these responses as being delivered  “note perfect.”  This is labeled as “note perfect” after one of the more famous practitioners:  Mozart, as he was one of the earlier documented demonstrators of this process.  Though because of his fame, his example can be misleading, </B><B>it is emulated at all levels of ability by anyone rationally literate in goal defining</B><B>:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Mozart would pen a musical manuscript with the parts for each instrument in the orchestra and do it “</B><B>note perfect” the first time</B><B>.  In spite of the fact that this is completely beyond impossible at the conscious level, while Mozart's case was outstanding, it is not rare, and is repeated in all areas of human endeavor.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Anyone, and I do mean “anyone,” using the available level of rational process all have installed at birth, beyond the limits of the conscious level; get his or her solutions delivered in exactly the same manner of absolute completeness, this means you too.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This “completeness effect” is in no way restricted to composers, </B><B>nor is it selective</B><B>, </B><B>or a skill of people with above average IQ's</B><B>.  Just as the person with an above-average IQ reads his paper no different than the “average guy,” and, incidentally, as a rule, both tend to read at about the same speed.  This, as both have a similar level of literacy, as it relates to the vocabulary used by a newspaper, as most are written at a sixth grade reading level, as is this text.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Each of us have our defined limitations, one of which is we cannot do well substituting a function to an area which is not equipped for the job.  Your feet are not equipped to do what your hands are designed to do, and the other way round.  Nor can your conscious mind substitute for the higher functions one must learn to empower, such as learning to read, write, and </B><B>define higher abilities to achieve our goals</B><B>.  How you “work” is no more complex than that.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Just as learning to read is unique in its role, </B><B>defining a goal is unique in its role, as it alone can alert certain higher functions to throw switches</B><B>, </B><B>and focus power toward new objectives</B><B>.  If that goal is to own a certain red sports car, your reticular system will now focus a portion of normally dormant “intellect” to finding and calling your attention to them most everywhere, just as it causes you to hear your name through the roar of a crowd.  Though I am at an age where I notice cars more than girls, at least the reticular part still works and never fails to rise to the occasion.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>None of these functions come to life until you define an objective for them a higher level than the flow of conscious ruminating.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As to higher functions knowing what you need to know to direct their process, it is no different than target practice without a needed pair of corrective lenses.  Then attempting to take aim at a target that fades in and out, sometimes you can see it, and in the right direction, but usually not!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So as others are waiting, and you then notice that, thanks to the peer pressure you need to pee, however, you lift your bow, pull back the arrow, and it's ready, aim… Oops, let's try that again.  This time for sure… Okay now, once more, ready… The question to address is, aim at what?  Without a goal, your higher function also has no concept of where to aim.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There are two points of caution in correctly defining goals you should take seriously: PLEASE:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>First, </B><B>be very sure of your goals</B><B>, as they will come to pass in remarkable ways.  Ask yourself, “Will this grow up to block my sun?”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>And second, this is really important, and a required “warning label” when the technology of goals are given.  So take it, too, seriously:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It is to </B><B>be sure to have another goal ready to replace a goal once realized</B><B>.  Without another “directive” ready to go, there is nothing to absorb the momentum, and you lose the sustaining “wind beneath your wings.”  You will fall down and “go boom.”  I promise you!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Or, as I once heard a speaker say, “Folks, hear me well, for without another goal to replace one achieved, folks tend to crash and burn.“</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I say, once learned, no need to burn.  Just as we learn to use a flame to do only what it can do, such as cook as masterfully as I do, we can learn to not burn ourselves from success.  Yes, it is true.  People assume that if you are really good-looking, you cannot cook.  Well… in spite of my being remarkably handsome, and yet humble, I am an astoundingly good cook.  And if you don't believe that, just drop me a note and I will confirm it in writing to you personally!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Learn how best to how-to for yourself, and those that depends on you.  You, and they, as all people, have only one universal enemy:  It is ignorance, and here we have addressed only one aspect of the most costly of all, which is self-ignorance.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ignorance is ignoring knowledge that is available.  You see the results at every turn.  A turn for the better starts with us, and "better” turns to “best,” when by example we motivate the rest.</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  </div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Part Four: The Rational Term Resolve."><U>Click here to read Part Four: The Rational Term "Resolve."</U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> RationalPower.com will continue to define more rational process, answer your questions. </div> <div> <B>Please lend me your hand by telling friends about 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