<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Darren Hardy - motivational expert and author" title="Darren Hardy - motivational speaker" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/darren-hardy-11.jpeg" />Let  me reveal the mystery &#8212; secret &#8212; of <a href="https://getmotivation.com/goals/goals_main.html" title="goal setting tips and advice">goal-setting</a>. You only see, experience and  get what you look for. If you don&#8217;t know what to look for, you certainly won&#8217;t  get it.</p>
<p>By our very nature, we are goal-seeking creatures. Your brain tries to align your  outer world with what you are seeing and expecting in your inner world. When  you instruct your brain to look for the things you want, you will begin to see  them. In fact, the object of your desire has probably always existed all around  you, but your mind and eyes weren&#8217;t open to it. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/06/how-goal-setting-actually-works-by-darren-hardy/" title="Permanent Link: How Goal Setting Actually Works by Darren Hardy" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1130,"date":"2012-06-29T07:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2023-02-16T19:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:47:39","slug":"how-goal-setting-actually-works-by-darren-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/06\/how-goal-setting-actually-works-by-darren-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Goal Setting Actually Works by Darren Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Darren Hardy - motivational expert and author\" title=\"Darren Hardy - motivational speaker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/darren-hardy-11.jpeg\" \/>Let  me reveal the mystery &#8212; secret &#8212; of <a href=\"https:\/\/getmotivation.com\/goals\/goals_main.html\" title=\"goal setting tips and advice\">goal-setting<\/a>. You only see, experience and  get what you look for. If you don&#8217;t know what to look for, you certainly won&#8217;t  get it.<\/p>\n<p>By our very nature, we are goal-seeking creatures. Your brain tries to align your  outer world with what you are seeing and expecting in your inner world. When  you instruct your brain to look for the things you want, you will begin to see  them. In fact, the object of your desire has probably always existed all around  you, but your mind and eyes weren&#8217;t open to it. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/06\/how-goal-setting-actually-works-by-darren-hardy\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: How Goal Setting Actually Works by Darren Hardy\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}