How should you feel when you are thinking of your goals?

That is a question that people ask a lot.

Should you feel happy?

Exuberant?

Effusive?

Euphoric?

Relaxed?

Charles F. Haanel in points 21 and 22 in Week Sixteen of The Master Key System.

21. And finally, the vitality depends upon the feeling with which the thought is impregnated. If the thought is constructive, it will possess vitality; it will have life, it will grow, develop, expand; it will be creative; it will attract to itself everything necessary for its complete development.

Your feelings will give your thoughts life (vitality). Constructive thoughts are those that are harmonious and which engender pleasant feelings. When you think of a successful business that serves others on a grand scale, even if that business is not yours, you feel good, you feel inspired.

Thus, feel the joy of building, of creating, and everything else will follow naturally.

22. If the thought is destructive, it will have within itself the germ of its own dissolution; it will die, but in the process of dying, it will bring sickness, disease, and every other form of discord.

On the other hand, should your thoughts be destructive, then you will bring that upon yourself — and then some!

Think of the time when you were going on the first date with someone with whom you fell in love. Do you remember that date? Do you remember the days before the date? You were excited. You were walking on air. You were thrilled beyond comprehension. Nothing could keep you away from that date.

Sure, you were nervous and anxious, but your other greater emotions kept you moving forward.

The same is true when we build and plan goals that agree with us — that are constructive.

And then everything flows naturally.

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