Setting Goal For Yourself
Goal Setting For Success

When setting goal for yourself, be sure to keep your Goal Setting For Success tool within reach and remember this chapter on Keeping It Real. In the following information, you'll learn how your perspective on success will change.

This is a solid example of having a goal, without a purpose. A goal without a purpose will lead to only an empty result. Even if you assume you become rich in money, your heart and your mind will remain poor and empty. Money is never the answer - it does not buy happiness.

As we've walked you though the process of setting goal for yourself, we've continually emphasized the higher and bigger things associated with goal setting. We've spoken at length about issues of conscience, character, doing the right things, giving to others, and planning your life in a way that allows you to lead a life of passion using a high moral compass.

Goal setting does indeed produce greater results for anyone willing to put in the time and do the work. However, without your goals being planted firmly in a greater purpose; without the enthusiasm and passions of the heart and mind properly employed, your goals will never lead you to a life of happiness.

So let's make sure that we always keep it real in terms of knowing what our true purpose is, knowing clearly what we want - and why we want it. This will ensure we spend our time wisely and end up with the ultimate outcomes we truly desire.

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The following fable was once told by Dr. Joseph Perry Green during a lecture in New York:

"A common mongrel cat and a fine Persian cat often met in an alley. The alley cat noticed that people seemed to love the Persian cat very much. She was petted and fed, and everybody was kind to her and called to her when they saw her.

But with the alley cat things went in the reverse. Nobody came near to pet her; in fact, everybody seemed to run away from her, except the boys and dogs, which would chase her, and the other cats of the neighborhood, who were constantly fighting with and abusing her.

Once day she asked the Persian cat what made the tremendous difference between them; why it was that she, the Persian cat, received such good treatment from everybody, while she, the poor alley cat, was treated so shamefully?

The Persian cat replied, 'Why, that is because I am puffed up. I know I am some cat! The reason you get such treatment as you do is because everybody can see that you think you are nothing but a miserable, despised, mongrel cat.'

The poor alley cat felt terribly depressed and despondent, and asked how she could change all this. The Persian cat told her "begin believing in and setting goal for yourself. Repeat to yourself constantly: 'I am a wonderful cat; everybody loves me, everybody is kind to me.'

The alley cat commenced doing this and soon she noticed that the treatment she received began to change very quickly. This encouraged her to keep thinking better of herself.

She kept affirming that she was 'some cat,' and gradually she was recognized as such, although she had no Persian blood in her. She had, however, adopted the Persian cat consciousness.

The alley-cat consciousness was cast out by the larger, richer consciousness she had adopted."

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» CHAPTER 12   Get-To-It-Tive-Ness!
Goal Setting For Success emphasizes the importance of taking action. Those who are quick to initiate each step of the goal planning process are sure to succeed.

» SECTION 12.1   Success Is Right Now
Tomorrow never comes. Procrastination is the killer of many hopes and dreams. Effective goal planning minimizes your desire to put thing off.

» SECTION 12.2   Expect Change
Goals, like most things in life, do change. As you learn, develop and grow, it is not uncommon for your goals and aspirations to change along the way.

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