Creators Circle #7: How Detailed to Make Your Goals

In this Creators Circle, we discuss how much detail you should be adding to your goals. Is it best to be general, or to be very specific?

We also discuss how much you actually choose your manifestations. Are your deepest core desires with you from birth, or do you consciously choose them?

Note: In this call I said we’re on vacation next week. This was recorded last week, so this week is the week we’ve been on vacation. Creators Circle will resume next Tuesday, September 12.

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Topics Discussed in This Call

• [00:01:12] On Vacation
• [00:02:58] How Detailed Should Your Goal Be?
• [00:05:33] Different Types of Detail
• [00:12:28] Details Move You Forward
• [00:15:29] A Goal Naturally Becomes More Specific
• [00:20:35] Which Details Are Important to You?
• [00:24:31] Do You Really Choose Your Goals?

Transcript

Brandon: Hey, everyone, this is Creators Circle #7. We are here today for discussion of whatever happens to come up. [laughs] 

Christine: A very tiny group.

Brandon: A very tiny group. For people who are listening later on, if you want to see the transcript, you can sign up for it on the form below this recording. Or, if you are on YouTube, you can go to darkascent.org/creators-circle-7  All those little hyphens, but that’s how it is. 

[00:01:12] On Vacation

First of all, I want to say we will not be here next week because Christine and I are going on vacation.

Christine: Woo-hoo!

Justin: Outstanding.

Brandon: I don’t think we’ll even have any blog posts next week. I’m just going to recycle some other ones.

Christine: I will kick you if you do. If he doesn’t come back…

Justin: If he actually doesn’t make it back, it was because he actually tried a blog post last week.

Brandon: I actually tried to blog. 

Christine: What?

Brandon: Because I actually tried to blog, and Christine killed me. So, yes, we will be on vacation next week, so no Creators Circle. Hopefully I can change the email automation. Every Tuesday morning it says, “Creators Circle tonight,” and that would be kind of embarrassing if it said that and there wasn’t.

Justin: I will not be on vacation next week.

Brandon: You have the Creators Circle by yourself. [laughs] No, just kidding. 

Justin: What?

Brandon: I said, “You can have it by yourself.” [laughs] Hold your own Creators Circle.

Justin: I would never wish to usurp your spot.

Brandon: [laughs] Anyway, we won’t be here next week. We will be on vacation until Wednesday or Thursday. What did you say, Christine?

Christine: So miss us.

Justin: [laughs] Never heard.

Brandon: That is an order from Queen Christine.

Christine: Yes, I am a queen.

Justin: I will miss you next week on purpose.

Brandon: Thank you. You’d better. Christine will check with you. She’ll be like, “So what was your level of missing us?”

Justin: You’re going to do a dowser and say, “Were you missing at 60% or 70%?”

Brandon: That’s right. It had better be at least 85%. 

[00:02:58] How Detailed Should Your Goal Be?

So anyway, today we’re going to discuss (at least to start with) stuff. No, we’re going to talk about how specific or how general should you be with your goal, because Justin brought this up as an issue when we were talking before the recording. I think it’s a good topic. I think we’ve touched on it here and there on the blog.

Christine: Short answer? Don’t worry about the details. Long answer: it’s really hard.

Brandon: [laughs] You’re feisty today, my goodness. [laughs]

Christine: [laughs] I know. I just summarized twenty minutes.

Brandon: Thank you. Okay, bye.

Justin: Vacation to start early.

Brandon: [laughs] Anyway, that’s how specific you should be. I’ll be talking about this a little bit on the blog post on Thursday as well. In my opinion, I know it’s a very difficult one. I know some people tell you to be really super specific with every little detail.

Justin: That’s tough.

Brandon: Imagine every little thing as though you’re there and that kind of thing. I honestly don’t have the mental bandwidth for that. I do a lot mentally. I do, basically, math problems in my head to go to sleep. I’m a big thinker. [laughs]

Justin: Right about that.

Brandon: I just don’t have the mental bandwidth to hold every little detail in my head, and try to imagine it.

Christine: But you can do math problems.

Brandon: Yes, well, it’s different things. I’m not like that. I know Neville Goddard says something like that. Imagine the wish fulfilled and be super specific about it, that kind of stuff. I’m not that kind of person. I just can’t do it. My thing is, be as detailed as you have to be to feel excited about the goal and evoke the emotions that you want to evoke and not too much resistance. I think that in the beginning, when you’re just starting out, it’s helpful to stay a bit more general, because you’re just starting to outline your goal.

[00:05:33] Different Types of Detail

I see a goal a lot like building a house. I don’t know where that came from, but it’s there. You don’t start with, “I want a room over here. I want the furniture in this room.” You don’t start with that. You start with a foundation and the basic structure: four walls and a roof. Then you go in and build the different rooms. You get more specific as you go, but you have to start with a basic structure, or you don’t have anything. That’s kind of how I feel your manifestation is. You want to start with the basic structure and being very general about it. Then, in time, you can go to the more specific things. In the beginning when you’re more general, it will help you to feel some emotion without too much resistance.

Let’s take for an example money. We all can imagine something like, “It would be nice to be rich. It would be nice to have more money.” We can all imagine that without too much resistance. From there, we can get some emotion from that. It feels pretty nice. There’s not a lot of resistance because it’s very general. We’re not being very specific about how we’re going to do it or how it’s going to happen or how long it will take and that kind of thing. But as we go, that’s a good start. Then we get more specific. How do I want to be rich? How much money exactly do I want? Let’s say $100,000. Okay, how do I want to get it? I want to be self-employed. I want to start a business. What do I want to be doing in that business? I want to do some coaching. You get more and more specific from there.

But if you try to do that from day 1 and say, “What exactly do I want in every little detail?”, you’re going to get a little overwhelmed. I just think it’s not going to work out that well. So that’s the kind of framework I see. I know, Justin, you want to speak to it. You said you’ve been confused about that in the past.

Justin: For me, it depends on the different subjects. This is what I do. I will a lot of times ask my guides and guardians to help send me some of the details. I have found when I stretch for details—depending on what it is—a lot of times, it just becomes forcing it. I have just found, especially in the beginning, it really works for me to do that. Then I can see some of the ways it might happen. I’ve also found that sometimes my details change as it goes. For me, I have found that you find an overall goal, and then you ask for that specific goal, but don’t worry about the subgoals beneath it. Just ask for that thing and then let it form, unless you specifically say, “I am going to break this down, and this is Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 3.” I guess that’s fine. For the most part—this is just for me—I let the goal happen. I step through the steps as they are presented, and I do not treat them as goals. I just don’t. For me, I just don’t.

Brandon: I think, to me, you’re seeing the details in a slightly different way than I do. What you’re seeing—because you’re mentioning subgoals—you can say something like, “I want to get $100,000 by starting a business. First I’ll do this. Then I’ll do this step. I’ll register the domain name. Then I’ll start a website. Then I’ll blog.” Those sorts of tasks. Let’s call them “tasks.” I don’t know if they’re subgoals.

Justin: Yes, I just don’t mess with those.

Brandon: But that’s not always what we mean by details. That can be part of it, and some people will try to get into that nitty-gritty of the fine little details of it. How do I have to get there? That’s overanalysis. That’s overkill.

Justin: What I mean by “details” is exactly how the projects are going to look and form themselves. I don’t want to get too deep into that, because I think sometimes…

Brandon: Yes, but let’s say I want to have a lot of money. The universe says, “That’s nice. I can’t really do much with that unless you specify a little bit. A lot of money to one person could mean $100, and to another person could mean $100 million or $100 billion. What’s a lot of money to you? How soon do you want that? Is it okay if I give $100 to you in 50 years or so? Is that all right? You’re not being specific.”

Justin: For me, you have to be specific only to the parts that you need to be specific with. That’s just what I do. You don’t want to over-detail it, but you have to give it enough power and oomph and drive so that there’s a challenge and tension there. Other than that, you might as well not.

Brandon: I’m not saying to do every little “how it’s going to happen,” but the detail can fill in the picture. I want $100,000 by this date—within 6 months, a year, whatever. That will allow you to fill out the picture a lot more and say, “This is exactly what I want.” The universe says, “All right, I see that.” If your subconscious believes it, it will say, “All right, fine.” If it doesn’t believe it because it’s a next-level goal, it will say, “Well, I can’t quite fulfill that wish because blank,” and there’s your resistance. You work through the resistance, and then it says, “Well, I can’t fulfill it still because of other blank.” [laughs] And so on and so forth. You keep going like that, and eventually it will do it. 

[00:12:28] Details Move You Forward

Brandon: The detail, I find, drives you on a lot more. It really drives you forward a lot more when you say, “I want $100,000 within 6 months.” I’m not going to say, “This is how it’s going to happen. This is every little step.” But there are details that matter to me. There’s the amount—that definitely matters to me. Let’s say you want a job. It definitely matters what field it’s in. If your expertise is in accounting, you don’t want to be a doctor.

Justin: Nope. An engineer.

Brandon: A lawyer. An engineer. Whatever.

Justin: You definitely want a job in the field of accounting. 

Brandon: Right. It matters to you how far the office is away from your home, and how much you make, and how your coworkers are. Certain things matter more than others to you, but that’s part of your desire. I’ve talked about before, especially in the classes like Art of Reality Creation 2.0 and some of the blogs, how your goal starts from a seed. I think I even called it the seed of your goal. The seed of your goal is the emotion. But it starts with a little seed. You say, I want to have more money. I want to have a bit more money or be wealthy or however you want to word it. That’s your seed.

The universe says, “All right, that’s planted. You want to have more money.” Then you come along later and you feel good about that. You come along later and say, “By more money, I mean $100,000.” You water that seed. You add more attention to it. You add more focus to it. You add more detail to it. It’s really hard to focus on a seed that’s super general like “I just want to be wealthier. I just want to have more money.”

Justin: You can’t really focus on that.

Brandon: You can’t really focus on that. “I want a job.” Okay, here’s a retail job paying minimum wage. Is that what you wanted? [laughs] 

Justin: No.

Brandon: It’s really hard to focus on a seed that’s really general. “I want a job” is totally different from “I want my dream job in this field.” Those are two totally different energies. “I want a job” is a fine seed, but “I want to be an accountant making $100,000 a year doing this and this and this” is a lot more detail. That seed grows a lot more with a lot more focus, and it becomes more and more and more of your goal.

[00:15:29] A Goal Naturally Becomes More Specific

Brandon: I think a goal naturally becomes much more detailed as it grows. It just naturally starts as a seed—meaning very general. Sometimes it’s months or years before you realize you want it. You might be planting goal seeds everywhere without even knowing it. You might know from a young age that you want to get married. That’s a seed.

Justin: I want to get married.

Brandon: I want to get married. Well, I am married. I no longer want to be married because I am married. Justin wants to get married. He might have known that for years, so that’s a goal seed. Now as Justin got older…

Justin: Hey, hey, hey.

Brandon: [laughs] You’re old, Justin. You’re the oldest one here. You’re a senior citizen as far as we’re concerned.

Justin: I turned 28.

Brandon: Yes, 28, sure.

Christine: Try 10 years older. [laughs]

Brandon: You realized over the years that you wanted to get married. This is the kind of person you’re most attracted to, or this is the kind of relationship that you want, or things like that. This is the age at which you’d like to get married. So the goal gets more and more specific. We can realize from a young age. I knew from a young age I wanted to be working in a spiritual field, Goal Seed #1. Goal Seed #2, I want to be making a lot of money. That was my desire from a young age.

Christine: But you also wanted to marry a nerd, and you didn’t, so…

Brandon: That was true, but that was an option.

Justin: Christine, you can eat a pack of Nerds, right?

Christine: That’s true.

Justin: There you go.

Brandon: [laughs] See? It’s all in the details. [laughs] 

Justin: Goal accomplished.

Brandon: Goal accomplished.

Christine: But it’s true, though. He has always said he wanted to marry someone who is at least as smart as him.

Brandon: You’re smart.

Justin: I don’t think we could handle that.

Christine: I don’t think so, either. [laughs]

Brandon: Are you calling me really smart or really dumb? I really can’t tell right now.

Christine: You’re the smart one, and I’m the one who can translate stuff.

Justin: You’re the human interface.

Christine: Yes.

Justin: From Brandonese to the rest of us.

Christine: Yes, exactly.

Brandon: Anyway, those are my two goals. I want to work in a spiritual field, and I want to make a lot of money. To a lot of people, those seem at odds, but not to me.

Justin: No, it’s evil. You must not be a guru.

Brandon: [laughs] So those are my two goals. Over the years, I tried out a lot of versions of that. Some didn’t work. Some sort of worked. Some I had to improve upon. But now, both of those seeds are getting a lot more specific. They’re getting a lot more momentum behind them. Sometimes, let’s say you set a specific goal today. “I want this job. I want to have this specific kind of job.” But that might have been growing in your subconscious for months or years, where you knew from way before what (in a general way) kind of job you wanted or what kind of work you wanted to do. This is just the latest iteration of that original goal seed. You’re helping it to grow as you give more focus to it and give more specificity to it.

“I want this many clients by this date.” That’s just a subset of my original goal seed of “I want to work in a spiritual field.” You’re bringing more specificity to it. You’re bringing more focus to it. It’s growing because of that focus. Your next goal that has to do with the same topic will be easier. Let’s say I want X number of clients, and next time I want 2X number of clients. It will be easier to grow that because I achieved the first goal. So you get more and more and more specific as you go, and that allows the energy to work on that pathway. Go ahead.

[00:20:35] Which Details Are Important to You?

Justin: Really quick, what I’ve found is for me, the details are important. But what I’ve found really works for me is to allow them to be flexible. I pretty much know how I’m going to get to the goal I want. But as long as they are details that are able to move around some, then actually it works pretty well. When I get too rigid or ungeneral with them—somewhere in the middle, like you would hold a samurai sword. If you hold a samurai sword with all of your hands, the guy’s either going to knock it out of your hands or break your hand. The details need to be sharp, but they need to be able to move a little bit.

Brandon: I think that comes down to which details are really important to you and which aren’t. For me, a detail like “I want to work in a spiritual field” is not flexible. 

Justin: No, that’s not flexible.

Brandon: Or a detail like “I want to be making this much.” It’s not flexible. It might be postpone-able—is that a word? [laughs] 

Justin: Like I said, part of the sword is not going to be flexible, either. Part of the sword is going to be rigid, too.

Brandon: Some of those details might not actually be from your core. Let’s say my next goal is I want to make this much a year, but that could be coming from fear. Then it’s not an expression of your core, it’s more of a “I need to do this in order to feel safe.” That’s not a detail that’s going to help you. It’s a detail that’s going to get in your way.

Justin: Because the amount I want to make is not flexible, at least for my first goal. It’s not flexible.

Brandon: Exactly, but if there was a detail more out of the desire to feel safe and not out of the core, then that would actually get in the way. That would not be an expression of your truest goal. We’re tending these goal seeds. We’re helping them to grow. We want them to be the truest expression of what they were meant to be. If I want to work in a spiritual field, going against that is going to hurt me.

Justin: Don’t do that.

Brandon: Or taking on an aspect that isn’t in alignment with that goal is also going to hurt me. It’s my job to tend that goal to help it grow and become the truest expression of what it’s going to be. The same thing could go for having a lot of money. That is a true core-level goal if that’s your thing. You could want a lot of physical abundance, not just the “Oh, we’re all abundant,” whatever, but a lot of physical monetary abundance so that…You don’t even need an excuse. I don’t want to go into that. But just for the experiences you want to have. If you go against that, then it’s going to hurt. If you go with that and tend that goal and let it be its truest expression, then it’s going to be a lot better. It’s going to be joyful to you. That’s how it works for me.

[00:24:31] Do You Really Choose Your Goals?

Brandon: When it’s just starting out, we’re a lot more general. We have things we dream about and envision. When it gets to the point of “This is what I want,” I think that’s the point where it really starts coming to the surface. The goal almost presents itself to us. We’re running out of time, but I’m going to ask a question. Do we create or imagine the goals, or do the goals present themselves to us for completion?

Christine: Ooh. What if…?

Justin: One thing I read—go ahead, Christine.

Christine: What if we start by giving the idea of the goal, but then it creates itself later because something knows?

Brandon: What I’m saying is a lot of these goals start when we are very young, and we might not even know it—those true, core-level goals really start at a young age, generally. Eventually, they’ll come to the surface and beg for expression. They say, “Hey, I want to be working in a spiritual field.” If I’m not doing that, I’m denying it expression. Did I really consciously say one day, “All things considered equal, I think I want to work in a spiritual field.” No, it was just sort of part of me. Did I say one day, “Hmm, I think I’d like to have a lot of money in life?” Also that just kind of came to me, if I really look at it. The goals that I have to manufacture myself—I use that word very deliberately. The goals I have to manufacture myself were more egoic-level goals and not really something that I really want. Now, obviously you could have temporary goals that move along a deep-level goal that you’ve always had.

Justin: Yes.

Brandon: My goal to get off of SSI was an expression of my goal to have a lot more money in life, but my expression of that being getting the job I did—which, by the way, I’m starting part-time this Friday.

Christine: Yay.

Brandon: That was in conflict with my other goal of “I want to work in a spiritual field.” So they clashed. My soul said, “Great, money. Woo-hoo! But hey, what about the spiritual thing? I’m not happy.” That was a conflict that had to get resolved, which it has been, now. Do we create? Do we decide on our basic, core goals, or do our goals present themselves to us and we have to discover them?

Justin: You’re saying the spiritual world ideas are real, and what we have in this world are just ideas of the spiritual world, so really, if you think about it.

Brandon: Does that make sense? What if our goals present themselves to us for completion?

Christine: I think that’s really cool. It proves that there is something out there, like a force, like God.

Brandon: For you, Christine, I hope you don’t mind this. Could you possibly choose not to be a healer?

Christine: No.

Brandon: Did you come up with that goal?

Christine: It’s a part of me. 

Brandon: Did it present itself to you for discovery.

Christine: It’s a part of me. 

Justin: For me.

Brandon: You could never not do that. If you didn’t do it, it would be…

Christine: It’s my purpose.

Brandon: Right. It’s your purpose. It would not be nice.

Justin: For me, I’m not 100% sure where I fit in the spiritual field. I know I’ve been in it for years doing different things. That’s great.

Brandon: My question for meditation for everyone to part with is, “Look at your goals. If they’re really expressions of your core essense and the goal seeds that started from a young age, then did you really choose them deliberately and consciously? Or were they always there and they presented themselves to you for your discovery and completion, so you could complete those goals?” You can complete them consciously. You have that choice. But did you actually come up with them? “I want to do this.” 

Christine: I think they come to you. 

Justin: It’s an expression of yourself, and it’s fine. If you have to come up with them, it’s probably not from your essence.

Brandon: Exactly. If you have to come up with them, it’s probably not your essence. I think that’s what you just said. That’s what I invite everyone to meditate on. I think it’s a deep and important question. That’s all from us today. Again, we will not be here next week. We will be happily on vacation, so we will see everyone in 2 weeks for another Creators Circle. I hope everyone has a wonderful 2 weeks. Again, if you want to see the transcript for this, you can sign up for that below where this recording shows up or on darkascent.org

Otherwise, I hope everyone has a great week or 2 weeks. Bye, everyone.

Justin and Christine: Bye.

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Topics Discussed in This Call

• [00:01:12] On Vacation
• [00:02:58] How Detailed Should Your Goal Be?
• [00:05:33] Different Types of Detail
• [00:12:28] Details Move You Forward
• [00:15:29] A Goal Naturally Becomes More Specific
• [00:20:35] Which Details Are Important to You?
• [00:24:31] Do You Really Choose Your Goals?

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Topics Discussed in This Call

• [00:01:12] On Vacation
• [00:02:58] How Detailed Should Your Goal Be?
• [00:05:33] Different Types of Detail
• [00:12:28] Details Move You Forward
• [00:15:29] A Goal Naturally Becomes More Specific
• [00:20:35] Which Details Are Important to You?
• [00:24:31] Do You Really Choose Your Goals?

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