The Butterfly Effect: How to Achieve Your Goals Easily

Moving towards what you want is a journey from one point to another. Unpretentious and understandable. Take it and go. However, in real life, simplicity is lost or inaccessible, and this is influenced by many reasons. One small accidental event can radically change the fate of a person. What to do – to subordinate the trajectory of life to chance or learn to create pleasant accidents on your own? Before choosing the second option, it is important to understand what can become a hindrance.

The path is closed to our consciousness

Everyone has their own picture of what they want in their head, but it is vague. In this case, the result is difficult to visualize. He appears as if in a fog. Lewis Carroll clearly noticed the features of a person’s excuses at such moments.

“Tell me, please, where should I go from here?” Alice asked.

— Where do you want to go? replied the Cat.

“I don’t care…” Alice said.

“Then it doesn’t matter where you go,” said the Cat.

“…just to get somewhere,” Alice explained.

“You’re bound to get somewhere,” said the Cat. “You just have to walk long enough.

It is no coincidence that I quote the conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat. In my opinion, this is a metaphor for a tedious choice or stagnation in a person’s life. It is difficult to build a motion vector, the final destination is in the fog. The situation allows fear, uncertainty, doubts to settle in a person’s life. Stops and blocks the will. The goal is understood and seen as “somewhere”. No direction, no precise description of what you want.

It’s hard to choose one path

In this case, the goal is visible and understandable, only there are two ways to reach it. Both are good. It is important to make a choice and move, the difficulty lies precisely in the choice. And a person freezes in anticipation – the signs of the universe, tips from the outside, the will of chance. Hangs, gives control of life at the mercy of chance.

Present a picture. There are two stacks of hay in the field, and between them stands a donkey and cannot choose which stack to move towards. He is hungry, the need for food intensifies, and with it the tension from an unsolvable task.

Suppose the donkey gets tired of standing and just sits down or lies down between the haystacks. The tension will remain, because the choice is not made. In languid expectation, the donkey will fall asleep safely. In a dream, he will roll over to his right side, which is convenient for him. In the morning he will wake up, be closer to the right haystack and start eating it. The choice has been made. Note – by accident. The question arises: “How to reduce the time of stressful choice?”

Ashton Kutcher’s character in The Butterfly Effect showed the impact of small actions in the present on the future. The hero realized that when reading a children’s diary, he returns to childhood. And he can change his actions, and so influence the future.

The very concept of the effect was introduced by the mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorentz. He described it this way: “The flutter of a butterfly’s wings in Iowa can set off an avalanche of other effects that can culminate in Indonesia during the rainy season.”

The French mathematician Henri Poincaré spoke of a similar effect. He believed that slight variations in initial conditions result in large changes. In life, the effect manifests itself in small random events that significantly affect later life.

Look at random events that have had a big impact on your life. These events are your actions, they reflect your essence. You need to understand your true desires and transform them into a goal, and then just take action. Consistently performing the technique “My perfect day, when the goal-dream came true” will help you find this action that will drastically change the life around you.

In creating this technique, I relied on the well-known Barbara Sher technique “Your Perfect Day”. From myself, I added focus on a specific goal. This will make it easy to get what you want.

It is important to create conditions for the critical mass of thought processes to go into action. In the very random that will lead to big changes. There are two mental components in technology – imagination and analysis. They allow you to accumulate the potential for changes in life. They help the butterfly to mature in the cocoon and send energy to the world. Collect energy for a breakthrough random action that will propel you forward. It is important to perform the technique in the correct sequence.

First component. Imagination

Dreams and fantasies contain knowledge of our unique desires and goals. They seem to be airy pictures, far from real life. It is customary to consider imagination a sign of children’s thinking and not to be taken seriously. Remember the phrases: “come down from heaven to earth”, “stop fantasizing”.

Our goals are hidden in dreams. In each of us there is an extraordinary creative part or, in other words, genius. Barbara Sher is very clear about this component: “A genius is a person who has dedicated his life to arming his inner child with the tools and skills of playing at an adult level.”

The main tool of a successful genius is the ability to “get dreams from heaven” and process them into the image of a desired goal. So they will serve as fuel for easy progress towards the desired. You will not only start moving towards the goal, but you will be able to fulfill your dreams. There is more motivation for action in this case.

The first step in the “My perfect day when my dream goal came true” technique is to turn on the imagination. Set an alarm for 5 minutes, so you can get out of your dreams and not “hang” in dreams. Close your eyes. Imagine your ideal day when your desired goal is achieved. Live this day in every detail, in the present tense “here and now.”

Quietly watch a movie about how your desired goal is achieved. Live the day from morning to evening. Mark answers to three important questions: “what?”, “Where?”, “With whom?”. What happens around when the goal is reached? Where are the events taking place? With whom do you share the joy of achieving your dream goal? After five minutes, open your eyes and write down the answers to these three questions.

I’ll show you with my example. There was a goal to share experience with a large number of people. By that time, I was conducting private and group consultations.

Pictured the perfect day. Imagination painted a picture. What? – I open the mail and see a letter from the editorial office with a link to the publication of my article. I was very surprised when I saw this picture. Where? events take place at home. In the first moments of meeting with the good news, I am alone. With whom? In the evening, inspired, with a smile I tell my relatives about the publication.

Second component. Rational assessment of the position

It is important to see clearly how things are at the moment until the desired goal is achieved. Understand your needs. Calculate opportunities and missing resources. After such an analysis, a picture of the ultimate goal can be drawn. For visualization, it is better to choose a white sheet of paper. Use sketches, write the text. Look for pictures that are in tune with your personal desires, those that you saw in your dreams.

Analysis is the second step in the My Perfect Day technique. Look at the picture of the perfect day you drew and wrote, and write down the answers to the questions. Divide your answers into three columns and three lines. Columns: “required”; “optional, but desirable”; “pampering”. Lines: “what”, “where”, “who”.

Remember the proverb: “Water does not flow under a lying stone.” If you dream, analyze and take no action, then in reality there will be no changes. The caterpillar will not turn into a butterfly, it will freeze in a cocoon. Find action and act today is the third stage of the technique “My ideal day when the goal-dream came true.”

You managed to see and live the perfect picture of your “goal-dream”. Analyze the necessary components for its implementation and remove the husk that fell into the “pampering” column. It remains to take the last step – to flap the wings. Ask yourself a simple question: “What can I do today to get closer to my ideal day when my dream goal came true?” Also write down the answers.

Your goal is to take a small step towards your “goal-dream”. This will keep you moving smoothly.

My first action was to decide on the main idea that I wanted to share with the readers and write it down on a piece of paper. The next day the thesis plan was born, and the next day I wrote the article. I wrote and forgot. A week later, a friend called and asked if I wanted to write about my experience in a magazine.

Here is that random event (invitation to print), which I myself created by my actions. Five years have passed since the publication of my first article. I keep writing. I share techniques that have been proven in my experience and believe that they will help people achieve their goals easier and easier.

The butterfly effect often manifests itself in life in the form of random events that have a great impact on the future. Sometimes this influence is fatal. If you have a desire for change, help your “butterfly” flap its wings. You don’t have to start from scratch to do this. Just find the action today that will bring about change. And remember that your life is in your hands, as are the random events that take place in it.