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For many years I’ve been using a simple mind programming function on my cell phone. I never thought it was anything special until one of our members recently approached me in Durban about a business opportunity that he wanted my opinion on.

He showed me a prototype of an apparatus that you connect to your finger, and it then sends you impulses at certain times, like gentle vibrations, to remind you of something you have to do. I then showed him how I use my cell phone for this and that it’s unnecessary to build special devices for it.

I didn’t think this function on the cell phone was anything special, because everyone surely knows how to use a cell phone’s reminder function. Or so I thought!

Every night at 20h00 my phone vibrates. It’s a reminder that I don’t even read, because I know exactly what it says. It reminds me of my main personal goal. I’m not going to blurt out my personal goals here, but I will give you an example.

Firstly, you know my philosophy about how important it is to have goals. And not vague, general ones; but exact, properly defined, written goals. You might have a goal of making one million rand profit in 2009. Then you have subgoals, actions and plans for reaching your target. The one million profit is what I would consider to be your main personal goal in this example, though. It could be something completely different, of course, like “before Christmas 2009 I will meet my life partner” or “in April 2010 I’ll be able to afford to quit my job and travel around the world”. You’ll .........................

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