Thoughts start in the lower chakra here; this is in the Bhāgavatam. And then they proceed up through these different energy centers, and they become more clear to us. They come as a subtle feeling, and then they come into the thought world. And when they come to here, there's a chakra here - that's when you voice it. So desires, subtle thoughts, and then they get voiced, and then you say it. And once you say it, especially if you put it on the internet, it's practically impossible to take back.

What's happened is you've manifested something, an idea, a thought, and then it's come from subtle and it becomes grossified . And when you write it down, when you sit down, this is no ordinary thing: to sit down and decide what's important to you, write as a goal. And so what if you still have proclivities in another direction? This will start pulling you. And there's an uncanny way in which—at least I can say just anecdotal from my life.

I was a brahmachari for 13 years, and I started when I was 16, and I got married when I was 29. When I was 29, I said, "I've got to decide how I'm going to organize my life." So I wrote down a whole list of goals. I hadn't seen my parents that much because I was mostly in ashrams and traveling around the world. I stopped at their house on my way to India, and I had my goal list, just written on a piece of paper, and I accidentally left it there. I remember my father wrote to me. They were being protective of me because I had never really interacted with the world that much. I just went right into the ashram and was fully absorbed. And they had all these what looked to them like super ambitious goals, and they probably were. And they were trying to help me balance my life and saying, "Don't expect that much from the world. Maybe too much of what you've put here."

I remember several years later after that, they gave me the paper back when I saw them next time. But when I went through the list some years later, I realized that I achieved everything on it. I started thinking about how there's a subconscious force. When you decide what you want and you write it down, it starts to manifest. And then even if you're going in a different direction, if you keep reminding yourself what your goals are—that's one of the points I'll make about goal setting—is to keep it visible.

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