Monday, October 12, 2009

Create More Rewards Than Regrets With Goals

Well Established Goals
Lead To Greater Success
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Establishing goals can be one of the most significant actions a person can take toward realizing a life of happiness and fulfillment. Without clarifying what you want to accomplish and a plan to achieve specific results, it is just too easy to float from one event to another with no lasting success.
.So often children seem to bounce from one activity to another, believing that life will simply go on forever. And, unfortunately, many of these same kids become adults without learning how to infuse definite life goals. That is, establishing and taking action on goals that will help create a life where there are more rewards than regrets.
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Here are 2 major reasons for establishing goals:
.1. A goal provides clarity and a vision to work toward.
.2. Well-established goals supported by committed action usually leads to greater fulfillment.
.If you think establishing goals in your life is too much work or not worth the effort, you couldn't be more wrong. All you have to do is look at anyone today or in history who has achieved any significant success and you will find that setting and pursuing goals was involved.
.The process and value of employing goals can work for every individual. To create and achieve a goal is simply a choice that has the potential for lasting rewards. If you have the desire to accomplish something in your life, no matter how small or how big, and you take positive action to attain it, then you are pursuing a goal.
.Make sure that each selected goal is meaningful to you and that you are willing to see it through until it is achieved. Following this approach will certainly contribute to a life of more rewards than regrets.

David Schaefer is an entrepreneur and writes on the topics of personal development. Follow David's insights at http://twitter.com/davidschaefer
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Monday, October 05, 2009

The Fast Track To Success

Setting And Actively Pursuing A Goal
Absolutely Accelerates Success

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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.”
- Thomas Jefferson

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Goals charge us with desire and push us outside our comfort zones, causing us to challenge ourselves to grow and achieve. They give us the momentum to advance even when things are distressing or seemingly insurmountable.
.The individual with a strong goal and a clear vision of a desired outcome deeply embeds potential success in the subconscious mind. Thus, allowing the mind’s generative and sustaining power to attain goals in the least amount of time and with the least amount of physical exertion.
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Strong, clear goals accelerate our subconscious activity, causing us to unconsciously zero in on our target 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Little by little you achieve actualization, as all your abilities and mental powers become engaged to that end.
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It is shocking, but in North America today:.
Only 5 percent of the population has formed goals for their future.
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Only 1 percent have actually taken the effort to write their goals down.
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Nearly 95 percent of the people in our society do not have clear, concise, written goals.
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The average person spends more time planning their vacation than their lives.
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Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship without a rudder . . . sometimes drifting aimlessly and sometimes going full steam ahead in random directions. People without purpose accomplish very little over a lifetime. They tend to be very busy, always moving, going, spending, and doing . . . confusing busyness with accomplishment.
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Goals can only be achieved once they’re conceived. If you haven’t created your goals, then you’re taking action in random areas of existence and completing random tasks. You are not accomplishing and advancing your potential.
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David Schaefer is an entrepreneur and writes on the topics of personal development. Follow David's insights at http://twitter.com/davidschaefer
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