Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy
The rudder of a sailboat doesn’t control the sea, but it does make a huge difference in where the boat goes.
Goals are much the same.
Without goals, one is rudder-less, blown about by the sea.
But, with goals, one has a direction and a means of managing forward progress – a way to steer one’s ship.
What do you want? I mean, what do you really, really want? * * * (Assuming you came up with what you really, really want:) What do you want more? Huh? Whatever it is that you have (now), is what you want more. WHAT!? Whatever it is you want most is what you are creating….
If it strengthens you, embrace it. If it challenges you, solve it. If it weakens you, replace it. Who said that? That was me. I have a couple more: If it repeats, question it (deeply, truly investigate it). If it hurts you, love it (and let it go).
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There are seven days in a week and Someday isn’t one of them. – Unknown Whatever you want to do. Whatever you want to create. Whatever you want to become. Whatever relationship you want to start or repair. Begin now. Take some action now. The first step though, often isn’t the first step (at least…
This above all – to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare We’ve all heard the first part of this quote, but rarely is the rest of it mentioned. Pity. Because as important as it is to be…
It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. – Jacki Joyner-Kersee This quote has me thinking about planning, and about how people misunderstand planning. A couple things I’ve noticed: either people don’t see any value in planning or they worry that it will hinder their spontaneity. There’s not much one…