Motivation and Goal Setting
Goal Setting For Success

Motivation and goal setting can be a difficult thing to maintain. Now they can with our Goal Setting For Success tool for aspiring leaders. In the following information, you'll learn how to stay focused in your goal setting efforts.

The truth of the matter is that you have to take complete ownership of your life in order to ensure your own success.

No one but you can get you out of bed in the morning.

No one but you can decide what you will accept of reject in your life.

No one but you can determine your values and ideals.

No one but you knows what it's going to take for you to become happy.

No one but you can accept what's wrong in your life and what you are willing to do to change destructive patterns.

No one you YOU, can live YOUR LIFE the way YOU are meant to live it.

Certainly, life does have a way of taking us off our focus, distracting us from what our true focus should be. This is why we provided the list of ways to gain leverage on yourself, to support you in the goal setting process, in the earlier section on Stick-To-It-Tive-Ness!.

Above all else, remember that your goals must be about the things that you are most passionate about. Passion is your greatest motivator. Motivation and goal setting are best friends who will always support you as you work to make your life - a masterpiece.

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The next time you feel blue and discouraged; when the struggle to make a living seems especially hard; when motivation and goal setting is non-existent; when you may be inclined to grow hard and bitter because you think fate is against you - recall this divine promise; "Behold, I have set before you an open door which no man can shut."

The open door means a way out of our difficulties, a solution to our problems; and this door which our Creator has opened to us, no man can shut.

The promise is not for only a favored few, but for everyone; and you yourself are the only one than can bar the door that He holds open for you.

Every so often you hear of someone who states, "this is too good to be true". They don't believe their good fortune will last. Somehow they are convinced they are not even worthy of what has come their way. To these people we should say the following:

"Now this is your challenge, my friend, you don't believe that good things were intended for you; you don't believe that you were ever intended for prosperity, to enjoy luxuries. Ever since I've known you, you have been 'just getting along,' barely existing. You seem to think that this is the natural thing. But the very opposite is true.

This is not the life that was intended for you. There are enough resources in the world to make every human being well off, to make each one prosperous.

We need not be worried about exhausting the world supply. You think your little bit of good fortune is too good to be true. It is foolish of you to entertain such a thought.

There is nothing too good to be true for God's children."

If you think you have no chance; if you are convinced that there is no opportunity for you anywhere on this beautiful earth; if you do not try to enter the open door, but sit down and blame fate or luck repeatedly for your plight - you will in effect be closing your door to happiness.

You will not realize your full potential.

Get rid of fear! It is only fear that keeps you perpetually struggling against terrific odds instead of overcoming them.

If fear has gotten hold of you and is choking your motivation and goal setting spirit, decide now to remove it from your mind, demand that it leave your presence never to return. In doing so you will re-open your door to all that is rightfully yours.

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» CHAPTER 15 Celebrate To Motivate
A key element to successful goal planning is to ensure you take time to celebrate your success along the way. Take time to take credit for the small successes that will be stepping-stones to your greater success down the road.

» EXHIBIT A Fitness Goal Planning
Goal Setting For Success provides a free plan of action template so our readers do not have to start from scratch in the goal planning process.

» EXHIBIT B Financial Goal Planning
Goal Setting For Success is a step by step process that provides readers with clear and concise goal planning information. Goal setting software is helpful but not always necessary for effective goal planning.

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