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There may be many strategies for financial freedom, but the most important is probably your focus.

Whenever you are walking or driving, you have to keep your eyes ahead of you, otherwise you would swerve away from your path. An archer has to take aim in order to hit his target. When a football player goes to score a goal, he has to see the ball hitting the back of the net before he kicks it.

It is the same with creating wealth. If you want to be rich you need to focus on what you want and keep focusing.

You start by deciding exactly what your financial goals are and, most importantly, what you want the money for. Visualize what you will do with the money. Think about how it will help others: your family, your friends, charities or others. Think about the lifestyle you can have. When you have all this in place, you will know how much you need, either on a monthly or yearly basis. Write this figure down. Visualise having the things or the lifestyle that this money will bring, and do this daily.

When you set clear financial goals you are doing something constructive for your future and ensuring your success. Relying on luck, or just drifting, is destructive because you are denying yourself the power that you have to create your dreams.

Setting goals can appear scary to some people because they are unsure how they are going to achieve them. Often we prefer to only commit ourselves to something once we understand how we can achieve it.

In fact, this way of thinking does not work. Without commitment, your mind will not apply itself to discovering how to get there. When you commit yourself to achieving something by setting a goal, without knowing how you are going to get there, your mind will begin to work on ways to fulfil your goal. You will see opportunities that you may never have seen otherwise, and you will find ways of getting round the obstacles that are in your path.

Deepak Chopra, the world famous guru of wellbeing, said you would not have a desire if you did not have the means to fulfil it. Each of us has the power to create whatever we want.

When you do not have clear financial goals you will simply drift along, moving into the future without any decision or definite purpose. You may become a victim of circumstance, subject to the whims of dominating personalities and without the strength to set your own course.

A vague idea of some day being rich is simply not enough. If you really want to achieve wealth and financial freedom you must have a specific figure in mind AND a clear idea of why you want it. If it feels easier for you, you can start out with a relatively small figure and then expand it when you reach it. An easily achievable goal will provide you with the confidence to set a higher goal next time.

Your goals may not happen overnight, but by thinking, visualizing and affirming them every day, the ways and the means to achieve them will gradually become clear and you can then take the action that you need to take.

In all strategies for financial freedom you must always start with a very specific goal and focus. Ask yourself “how much?” before you start thinking about “how?”

Tips and Guides: Ros runs her own online business and is also a successful writer and life coach. Ros’s coaching site is at Career and Home Business Coaching Find opportunities at her website at Financial Freedom Online