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10 Steps to Directing Your Energy to Achieve Anything

Directing your energy, by Elinor Cohen
Photograph by Peechaya Burroughs

Understanding and directing your energy will help you achieve your personal and professional goals — here are 10 steps to follow

Have you ever noticed that when you want to achieve something and really focus on it, it feels like a tornado pulling you into the vortex of action? Things start moving along very quickly. It feels as if something bigger than you is moving you in the direction of the ‘it’ you want to manifest. This is energy.

I have experienced several incidences like this in my life and I have to say they are magical. I believe anyone can achieve anything they want. It simply starts with a decision and a commitment to becoming the future version of yourself that you want to become. The only thing holding you back from achieving what you desire is you. It is important to start with setting your mind straight and making sure you have support systems in place. I have found that a hidden secret is to focus on the feeling of what it will be like when you achieve your goal.

I tell

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