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If you enable you ordinary brain to focus in an extraordinary manner your daily focused actions will bring about your goals - because your Central Executive will, in coordinating all your key neural components, coordinate your actions so that they are in line with your goals. This is simply a fact of cognitive science.

Like any other part of your body that has fallen into disuse, your Central Executive needs exercise, needs to get fit. Meditation is the required exercise. As things stand, it is the only activity that is scientifically proven to wilfully activate the Central Executive and to develop its fitness. Without meditation, the achievement of your objectives will be as possible as a couch potato running a marathon - you'll either fail miserably or kill yourself trying.

Meditation is a practical tool that disciplines an otherwise undisciplined mind - it's like lifting weights in the gym, or running on a treadmill that appears to be going nowhere but which will enable you effortlessly run life's great race.

Having an inspiring dream is a prerequisite to achieving happiness and success - you cannot achieve what you don't know that you want! But, without the necessary action, an inpsiring dream can quickly turn into a recurring nightmare... many clients have said to me, over the years, that their goals left them in a constant state of dissatisfaction as a result.

All goals are achieved through action, even if the action on your part is simply saying "yes" to an opportunity that has fallen into your lap. Your future is being proactively created by what is going on in your mind now because your mental energy now determines how present you are now and that, in turn, dictates whether or not what you're doing now is conducive to achieveing your goals and whether or not it is being done in an efficient and effective fashion. Each now is a creative stepping stone to future nows.

Ordinarily, we waste a lot of nows: checking and rechecking our email (I notice that some recipients of this Ezine read the covering email multiple times - the current record is 23!); reading or watching three different versions on the same news story; negatively gossiping about people or events; wishing we were somewhere else (in another job, on a golf course, with another partner) - no doubt, if you stop to think about it, you'll realize how much time you waste not doing what needs to be done to achieve your goals.

Life is not a rehearsal. Today will never happen again. If you waste it, you will have wasted it for all time and God knows what opportunity you will have missed whilst checking up on Michael Shumacher's current prognosis. Each moment provides you with a unique opportunity to do the right thing and do it well. As today's video explains, our brains are not naturally wired to appropriately focus moment-to-moment. The part of our brain that we most need to be engaged in our lives - the Central Executive - is almost never involved in our lives.

And we need - oh how we need it. Happily, research has now established that you can wilfully activate this all important area of your brain - the coordinator of focused action, the conducter of your neural orchestra. It takes wilful determination and discipline on your part to exercise the Central Executive a little every day. That little exercise - morning meditation - will enable your Central Executive get involved in this present moment - the all important now in which you create either the future that you want, through focus, or nothing worth talking about. The choice is yours - but its a choice that you must exercise now.