The 1st Step to Your Success
- Goal Setting

Dear Friend,

Who's the most successful person that you can think of and admire?

It can be a successful businessman or investor like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet or even Donald "You're Fired!" Trump.

How about celebrities like Robbie Williams, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Tom Hanks, Robert de Niro, Jack Nicholson or even Bruce Lee? Sports superstars such as Mohammad Ali, Wayne Gretsky, Shaquille O'Neal, Tiger Woods?

It can even be scientists and inventors such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison or Isaac Newton? Maybe even significant political and religious leaders such as Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, the Dalai Lama or even Mother Theresa?

Most of them are extremely wealthy and powerful. Others made a difference to the lives of other people through their leadership and self-sacrifice. Others still contributed through their inventions which changed the world.

Would you be interested in being as successful as these people and learning how they achieved their success?

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All highly successful people, whether they're leaders, businessmen, scientists, sports and music personalities, etc., all share a common characteristic in that they all believe in goal setting.

They had clear and specific goals of what they want to achieve and focused single-mindedly on their goals until they achieved it.

People with goals achieve more than those without goals.

People with clear goals are more likely to achieve their goals than those without.

Obviously, if you know exactly what you want, it's a lot easier to go after it than if you're vague or not too clear about your goals.

Cherish your dreams and aspirations. They are the children of your soul, the blueprint of your ultimate achievements.

Unfortunately, the sad fact of life is that most people either can't be bothered or don't believe in goal setting. Think of all of the people that you know who would like to achieve something but don't have clear goals and thus keep getting side-tracked or end-up failing.

Then there are those people who don't have any goals at all and are resigned to living from day-to-day. They may not suffering all that much but, then again, they're also not really living life to the fullest or exploring their potential to be more than they currently are.

About 150 years ago, Henry David Thoreau observed that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation".

Don't you agree that life wouldn't be very interesting, besides not being very meaningful, if you didn't have any goals to strive for?

Over the years, I've come to realize that most people are actually motivated by the same things in life. Their goal-setting efforts almost always focus on the same things.

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