Know Thy Self: You ARE Extraordinary This post is for ambitious people who want to get ahead faster. It is for anyone who understands, in their bones, that they have a deeper purpose. If this is the way you think and feel, you are the person for whom this post is written. Your inborn potential is extraordinary. You have within you, right now, the ability to achieve almost any goal that you can set for yourself. Your greatest responsibility to yourself is to invest whatever time is required to become absolutely clear about exactly what you want and how you can best achieve it. The greater clarity you have regarding your true goals, the more of your potential you will unleash for good in your life. So I ask you to give yourself two hours & dedicate them to setting clear goals. Those two hours are going to be the investment with the greatest ROI in the history of EVER. One of the most important teachings of Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, was that man is a teleological organism. The Greek word teleos means goals. Write down your goals. On paper. By hand. It is important that you make your goals visible & physical. There Is a neuorological & metaphysical basis for why I say this. For now, trust me. Aristotle concluded that all human action is purposeful in some way. You are happy only when you are doing something that is moving you toward something that you want. The great questions then become, What are your goals? What purposes are you aiming at? Where do you want to end up at the end of the day? More people today fear change and worry about the future than at any other time in our history. One of the great benefits of goal setting is that goals enable you to control the direction of change in your life. Goals enable you to assure that the changes in your life are largely self-determined and self-directed. Goals enable you to instill meaning and purpose into everything you do. Join the Top 3 Percent Staring Today Mark McCormack in his book What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School tells of a Harvard study conducted between 1979 and 1989. In 1979, the graduates of the MBA program at Harvard were asked, “Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?” It turned out that only 3 percent of the graduates had written goals and plans. Thirteen percent had goals, but they were not in writing. Fully 84 percent had no specific goals at all, aside from getting out of school and enjoying the summer. Ten years later, in 1989, the researchers interviewed the members of that class again. They found that the 13 percent who had goals that were not in writing were earning, on average, twice as much as the 84 percent of students who had no goals at all. But most surprisingly, they found that the 3 percent of graduates who had clear, written goals when they left Harvard were earning, on average, ten times as much as the other 97 percent of graduates all together. The only difference between the groups was the clarity of the goals they had for themselves when they graduated. There is no greater guarantee of a long, happy, healthy, and prosperous life than for you to be continually working on being, having, and achieving more and more of the things you really want. Clear goals enable you to release your full potential for personal and professional success. Goals enable you to overcome any obstacle and to make your future achievement unlimited. Heres what you will do for two hours: 1. Imagine that you have the inborn ability to achieve any goal you could ever set for yourself. What do you really want to be, have, and do? 2. What are the activities that give you your greatest sense of meaning and purpose in life? 3. Look at your personal and work life today and identify how your own thinking has created your world. What should you or could you change? 4. What do you think and talk about most of the time—what you want or what you don’t want? 5. What is the price you will have to pay to achieve the goals that are most important to you? 6. What one action should you take immediately as the result of your answers to the above questions? In Summary... Explore what you Love. What key actions will you take from now on to achieve your dream. Talk, think, eat, breathe, and live inside what you desire most to accomplish. Pay the price. Take the first step. And HAVE FUN!!! Have a good day & remember: always Onward & Upward!
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:15:00 +0000
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