USE GOALS TO HELP YOU GROW

EVERY BIT OF HUMAN progress—our inventions big and little, our medical discoveries, our engineering triumphs, our business successes—were first visualized before they became realities.

A goal is an objective, a purpose. A goal is more than a dream; it’s a dream being acted upon.

Nothing happens, no forward steps are taken, until a goal is established. Without goals individuals just wander through life.

Goals are as essential to success as air is to life. No one ever stumbles into success without a goal.

The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get.

You must form an image now of the person you want to be ten years from now if you are to become that image. This is a critical thought.

Before you start out, know where you want to go.

AN IMAGE OF ME, 10 YEARS FROM NOW:
10 YEARS’ PLANNING GUIDE

Work Department: 10 years from now:

1. What income level do I want to attain?
2. What level of responsibility do I seek?
3. How much authority do I want to command?
4. What prestige do I expect to gain from my work?

Home Department: 10 years from now:

1. What kind of standard of living do I want to provide for my family and myself?
2. What kind of house do I want to live in?
3. What kind of vacations do I want to take?
4. What financial support do I want to give my children in their early adult years?

Social Department: 10 years from now:

1. What kinds of friends do I want to have?
2. What social groups do I want to join?
3. What community leadership positions would I like to hold?
4. What worthwhile causes do I want to champion?

And, please, as you visualize your future, don’t be afraid to be blue sky. People these days are measured by the size of their dreams.

Desire, when harnessed, is power. Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity.

Success requires heart-and-soul effort, and you can put your heart and soul only into something you really desire.

Switching from what you don’t like to do to what you do like to do is like putting a five-hundred-horsepower motor in a ten-year-old car.

Remember, the only way to get full power, to develop full go force, is to do what you want to do.

Successful people have their eyes focused on a goal, and this provides energy. The point is this: energy increases, multiplies, when you set a desired goal and resolve to work toward that goal.

The most amazing thing about a deeply entrenched goal is that it keeps you on course to reach your target.

Set goals to get things done.

The step-by-step method is the only intelligent way to attain any objective.

Just as a beautiful building is created from pieces of stone, each of which in itself appears insignificant, in like manner the successful life is constructed.

It’s clear. We do not make one big jump to success. We get there one step at a time.

THIRTY-DAY IMPROVEMENT GUIDE

Between now and ___ I will

Break these habits: (suggestions)

1. Putting off things.
2. Negative language.
3. Watching TV more than 60 minutes per day.
4. Gossip.

Acquire these habits: (suggestions).

1. A rigid morning examination of the smartness my appearance.
2. Plan each day’s work the night before.
3. Compliment people sincerely at every possible opportunity.

Increase my value to my employer in these ways: (suggestions)

1. Do a better job of developing my subbordinates.
2. Learn about my company, what it does, and the customers ir serves.
3. Make three specific sugestions to help my company become more efficient.

Increase my value to my home in these ways: (suggestions)

1. Show my appreciation for a little things my partner does that I’ve been taking for granted.
2. Once each week, do something special with my whole family.
3. Give one hour each day of my undivided atention to my family.

Sharpen my mind in these ways: (suggestions)

1. Invest two hours each week in reading professional magazines in my field.
2. Read one self-help book.
3. Make four new friends.
4. Spend 30 minutes daily in queit, undisturbed thinking.

When we detour, we don’t have to change our goals. We just travel a different route.

Here are two sound self-investments that will pay handsome profits in the years ahead:

1. Invest in education.
   True education is the soundest investment you can make in yourself. Real education, the kind worth investingin, is that whitch develops and cultivates your mind. Anything that improves thinking ability is education.
2. Invest in idea starters.
   Idea starters feed your mind, give you constructive material to think about.

LET’S TAKE ACTION

Now quick recap, put these success-building principles to work:

1. Get a clear fix on where you want to go. Create image of yourself ten years from now.
2. Write out your ten-year plan. your life is too important to be left to chance.
3. Surrender yourself to your desire. Set goals to get more energy. Set goals to get things done. Set goals and discover the real enjoyment of living.
4. Let your major goal be your automatic pilot. When let your goal absorb you, you’ll find yourself making the right decisions to reach your goal.
5. Achieve your goal one step at a time. Regard each task you perform, regardless of how small it may seem, as a step toward your goal.