We've got to the point of exploring how best to set your mind so that your subconscious focus will guide your moment-to-moment actions to ensure that you do what needs to be done, to the best of your ability, to achieve your heart's desire... effortlessly.

Harvard has been exploring how best to impress your subconscious mind - so that you believe you have already achieved it to the extent that you will behave accordingly. As a result of much research, the instructions are clear and simple: pen and paper is required - your outcome must be handwritten. You must only write using the present tense: "I see the light dance on the water", "I smell the salty air", "The bubbles explode on my tongue". You must use all five senses - wrap your mind in what it is like to be there now.

Do not pin yourself down to a specific timing: "Where do you see yourself in five years time?" is a nonsense question - the subconscious only understands the present tense and, when you are purposefully focused, achievement often arrives much quicker than the ordinary mind could fathom.

Do not crucify yourself on the cross of a specific goal: "I am a parter in the firm", "I am a software millionaire". Impress your mind with the feeling of having arrived - without prescribing what the destination is... let your extraordinarily focused mind take you to where is best.

Mindfulness in the moment is the key to happiness and success, the mark of higher-level awareness, the essence of flow. The alternative - mindlessness - is the stuff of everyday ordinary lives, lived automatically with a left-over goal from our evolution of simply making it through the day. But mindfulness in the moment needs direction - otherwise it's simply another, perhaps more dangerous, form of mindlessness. Your mind needs direction - directed mindulness is purposeful focus and purposeful focus will get you to where you want to go - with relative ease.

Painting a mental picture for yourself of what you want to achieve, as if you've already achieved it, provides your subconscious mind with the required direction. Instead of your objective being a want, a wished for or a goal, it becomes a reality to your subconscious mind when seen by it as an accomplished fact. The neural pathways that your mind uses to conceive visual imagery are the same neural pathways that you use to perceive what's before your very eyes - your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and the reality that you want. Giving your subconscious a clear and meaningful picture concentrates the mind. Your actions and behaviour thereafter are guided by the "knowledge" of your achievement - the psychological belief in its reality.

To give life to this picture, you need to paint it in a way that your mind can "get its teeth into" - you need to use all five senses to immerse yourself in the feeling of being there. The trick, if that's the right word, is to provide your mind with a detailed experience of having achieved your goal - without being specific about when that picture is or, indeed, how you got there. If you give yourself a picture that is specific in the nature of your achievement, you tie yourself down, you blinker yourself and close your mind to the wonderful opportunities that are before your very eyes... daily.

Your picture must specific in the experience of achievement, without being specific in relation to what the achievement is. Then, you have caast off the shackles of ordinary thinking, ordinary wanting, ordinary goal setting according to what you think you want - you have freed your mind to embrace the possibiities that abound - to achieve what your ordinary perspective cannot even begin to imagine. You have set your mind to achieve the extraordinary - and a mind with that direction cannot fail to succeed.