The NLP (Neural linguistic Programming) Tony Robbins answer is "Target Focus". The brain has no positive or negative commands it heard high and inside and responded accordingly.

Growth Challenge:
Our target focus is a learned negative. A defensive response we picked up in one of the six stages of child development. When we were crawling, skipping and jumping through the course material of childhood we picked up a defense strategy that was age appropriate. Our relationship with our parents or peers was interrupted, mangled or somehow damaged giving us an "incomplete" for that grade level. 

The first step to discovering your Dharma is to unearth the internal message the negative target focus that keeps you from striking the batter out. The six stages are: ATTACHMENT: zero to 18 months, EXPLORATION: 18 months to 3 years, IDENTITY: 3 to 4, COMPETENCY: 4 to 7, CONCERN for Others: 7 to 13 and INTIMACY: 13 to nineteen. Each stage has two different ways at looking at the situation e.g. throw it high and inside or ask the manager to take you out of the game. Some examples of these internal voice-overs are "I'm not Loveable; "I have no right to exist", "Don't grow up", "Don't be powerful", "Don't make waves" "Don't assert yourself". That's why writing down your positive goal acts as an antidote to your childish misunderstandings. Your growth challenge repeating the grade helps heal and gives insight into your generic Dharma. 

Dharma, Smharma, You say!  I know what I enjoy doing but there's no way I can make money doing it. Where's the money in doing my Dharma? Okay, okay! Obviously this writing stuff down on a piece of paper works,  Napoleon Hill's number one commandment in "Think and Grow Rich" was know what you want. Write it down, look at it in the morning, look at it at night and one day it will come true. Goal setting is good, written goals are better. So why and how does it work? That's easy. It's our open loop limbic system silly.   

It's kinda-sorta like being a co-dependent only you are receiving positive messages from external images that you have created. If 75% of retained knowledge is visual, then you are overwriting your internal operating software. I read it in the newspaper, so it must be true.  The pitcher obviously enjoys playing baseball and has enough talent to get himself to the World Series, it's throwing the ball low and away when it really, really counts that's the problem. If he is a CLINGER wounded in the stage of ATTACHMENT telling himself that he will "Never get his needs met" then he will spend an eternity doing his Karma until he learns that he should "Let Go, Negotiate and Meet His Own Needs".

You can go home tonight, and write out those outer limbic, lifetime achievement goals of yours, sit back relax and wait twenty years for them to materialize. Or you can get the whole job done in less than five years by attending my Leisure Learning Unlimited class, listed in the catalog and on their website www.LLU.com under "Serious Stuff - Mind Work. You will revisit the pitcher's mound of your youth to discover the coursework required to complete your emotional G.E.D. You will learn what exactly that jerk self-manager (you) has been saying all along. And most importantly find your tailored growth challenge that will put you back on the Dharma road to financial freedom, happiness and success. teg@analagoatcompany.com