Well I am sure that you have been examining all of your desires and you have got all excited about your core desires.

As I have shared with people on this subject I have realized that sometimes there is a problem. You see the truth of the matter is that people don't really know what their core desire is.

Maybe you have lots of desires. There are many things you want to accomplish in life, and you have had lots of dreams and probably also goals. But the moment somebody asks you,

“What is your core consuming passion; the thing that drives you more than anything else in life?”

I will guarantee that you can't answer that question. In fact I have probably thrown you into confusion, because you suddenly realized that you don't have a core desire. Maybe you have even started to get depressed now, because you realize,

“I don't really have anything burning in me.”

Well I want to make you feel better by telling you that you are not alone. Everybody is in the same situation.

So let me explain a little bit better what I mean by a core desire. Then I am going to show you how to actually develop a core desire.

You Do What You Want To Do

What is a desire? A desire is something that comes from that part of our soul called the emotions. Our emotions are what contain our desires and this most important term our feelings.

Now whether you care to admit it or not, everyone does what they feel like doing. You may even consider yourself an intellectual person who thinks things through and knows things very clearly in his or her mind. But I want to tell you that whatever you do, you do it because you feel like doing it.

When you go out and buy something, you buy it because you feel like buying it. You see your desires are what drive you to do everything that you do in life.

But here is the problem. Desires are out of our control.

I would really like to sit down, close my eyes and make myself desire something. I would like to close my eyes and change the way that I feel. Wouldn't that be great?

You get up in the morning and you are feeling down. You are discouraged and depressed and you say,

“That's easy. I will just close my eyes, and by a choice of my will I'll change the way I feel.”

You can try but you just can't do it.

Using Pictures

Let me explain to you what I mean. The thoughts that you think and the pictures that fill your mind change the way that you feel. They also change what comes out of your emotions. They change the things that you desire.

You see you can close your eyes and think of a picture. Close your eyes and think of a beautiful, juicy steak with butter melting over the top and fries on the side. I don't know about you, but I love steak.

If you love steak I am sure that right now there is a feeling within you. There is an emotion and a desire beginning to stir within you, and you are thinking,

“You know I haven't had supper yet.”

If you are a man, I want you to think of a beautiful woman clothed in something really beautiful. Her hair is lovely, her makeup is nice and she has a beautiful smile on her face.

What is stirring in you right now? I guarantee there is a desire beginning to stir within you right now.

You see the pictures that you put in your mind change the way you feel and cause your emotions to become stirred up.

Now you cannot choose to change the way you feel. But you can choose what you think about and the pictures that you put in your mind.

Too Many Goals and Desires

There is a mistake that most people make when it comes to dreams, goals, plans and actions. They have too many goals.

They have so many dreams and things they want to accomplish, that they spend a bit of time on each one and they keep switching from one to the other.

So today I could be sparked off to go out and conquer the world - in one area. Tomorrow I decide I am going to learn to speak a foreign language and I am all excited about that.

I am going to learn to speak Spanish or I'm going to learn to speak French. I go onto the Internet and go to Amazon and buy all the books. I buy the CDs and I am going to learn to speak this language.

But by the time everything arrives it has already begun to wane a bit, because now I am excited about something else. And so you end up having many desires.

A Core Desire Keeps Burning

You see that is not a core desire. A core desire is something that sits deep down inside of you. It just keeps burning and keeps pushing.

In other words the emotions and the feelings stay. And instead of going away, that desire grows stronger over time.

That core desire is a driving force within you. And it is so strong that you cannot help but reach the goal that you are aiming for. You will leave no stone unturned. You will do everything in your power. You will spend all the money and time you need to.

We tend to often use this excuse and say,

“Well you know I really would love to learn a new language, but I just don't have the time.”

What you just told me is that learning that language is not a core desire.

You say, “Well I really would love to be able to do web design and graphics and things like that. But you know I really don't have time to get into Photoshop and to do programming.”

“I would love to learn to do PHP and JavaScript and all these things. But you know I really just don't have the time because I have so many other things to do.”

You just told me you do not have a core desire in this area.

But here is the good news - or bad news as the case may be. You will never ever reach that goal. Ten years from now you will still be dreaming and saying, “

I really would love to be a graphic artist.”

It is really just a fantasy; just a desire. It is a dream that will never be fulfilled. You never set it as a goal and you never made it your core desire.

You say,

“So how do I go about this? How do I come to this place?”

Take Just One Goal

It is so simple that you will likely kick yourself when you find the answer. Out of all the desires that you have, you must make a choice. You must pick only one, because you see you cannot aim at many different goals at the same time.

Unless you are very good with a weapon, it is impossible for you to pick up a gun and try to shoot at moving targets all the time. You aim randomly and say,

“We'll just try that one - and that one and that one. And as soon as that one moves we will move to another one.”

You will never hit anything. A true marksman takes his time, takes careful aim and gets the image exactly in the sights. He or she waits, then pulls the trigger and hits every time.

You must choose one goal only. You can dream as much as you like and let your dreams go from one to the other. And you can live in your fantasy and think how wonderful it will be to do so many other things. But when it comes to setting your goals, you can only set one goal at a time.

Once you have chosen which goal to set, you must remind yourself of it on a daily basis, as often as you think of it or remember it.

Stirring Up That Core Desire

You can remind yourself by putting up little notes everywhere or by asking somebody else to remind you. And you can remind yourself by talking about it all the time. But you must put a picture in your mind of you fulfilling that goal.

When you lie in bed at night before you go to sleep, force that picture into your mind and see it. See yourself accomplishing that goal. See the circumstances and see it as an accomplished fact.

As you continue to fill your mind with that picture, whatever is in your mind and whatever pictures you keep in your mind will cause your emotions to become stirred. They will change your feelings and will create a desire within you.

During the night you may wake up and think about it and you may even dream about it. And when you get up the next day after having thought about it, suddenly you will feel like doing it.

There will be a driving force within you that just keeps you going. You will say,

“I just have to do this.”

If somebody asks you to do something else you will say,

“I will get to it later. I have something more important that I want to do right now.”

You don't have to try and find time to fulfill your goal. Your time is consumed with fulfilling that goal. It is a core desire; a driving force. It is all you are living for right now.

If you will keep doing that on a continual basis, as soon as the feelings begin to go, force that picture back into your mind again. Think it through. See it, taste it, feel it and smell it. Apply all your senses to it.

Let it so fill your mind that it becomes a reality. I guarantee you will suddenly find that you have a core desire.

And if you keep that core desire going, it will drive you to fulfill that goal and to reach it. Then when you reach your goal, you can celebrate and you can sit down and choose another goal and a new core desire.

But you can never have more than one core desire at a time. You can have only one.

So the question then is, “What is your core desire?”

Only you can answer that question, because only you can make a choice.

A Little Project

I would like to suggest something to you now as you have reached the end of this awesome week. You have learned so much and we have shared so much.

Now as the weekend stands ahead of you, I want you to sit down. Go through all the things that you have dreamed about and desired and choose just one of them. And then as you go through Saturday and Sunday, I want you to think about it as often as you can.

If you have difficulty thinking and getting the picture in your mind, use some words. Write down some form of your goal.

Say, “By such and such a date I will be...

“I plan to be…

“This is what I am going to do. I want to accomplish this.”

Speak it out loud. Say it. Describe the pictures of what you are going to be and what you are going to have.

Write them in words, because very often as you speak words it is easy to see the picture in your mind. If I say to you, “Steak,” you are thinking steak.

Words are very powerful things. Take these words and use some good adjectives, adverbs and expressions. Write them down and speak them. Memorize them and fill your mind with those pictures.

I will guarantee by Monday morning when you get up, you will know exactly what you are planning to do that day. You will know what you are planning to do that week and in the months that lie ahead.

You will know exactly which goal you are aiming for. That core desire will drive you and you will reach that goal.

Go and do it.