Goal-Setting-Guide

ACTION .

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Action

Fate knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there.
Michelle Keesling

Nothing happens until I make it happen.
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You can’t build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Henry Ford

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words;

they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action!

The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough

who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
W. Clement Stone

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and

begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill

There are costs and risks to a program of action,

but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen

Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

Just Do It!
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done,

of what he can do, Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi

Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin

Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.

I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.
Irish Proverb

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley

Action may not always bring happiness;

but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily

by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
Helen Gahagan Douglas

I have long since come to believe that people never mean

half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson

The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until

he does so by his actions.
Source Unknown

Good intentions are not good enough...

ultimately we are measured by our actions.
Source Unknown

Conditions are never just right. People who delay

action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
William Feather

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving.

They make mistakes, bu they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

To do nothing is in every man's power.
Samuel Johnson

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take.

You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert

Achievement

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Achievement

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus

Ability

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Ability

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Edwards

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel

Natural abilities are like natural plants;

they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities,

and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton

It is a fine thing to have ability,

but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that

which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;

it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse;

however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming,

I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If we did the things we are capable of,

we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

Ability is what you're capable of doing.

Motivation determines what you do.

Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have already done.
Longfellow

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly

with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

You have to have confidence in your ability, and

then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Smith Carter

Courage

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Courage

The stories of past courage... can offer hope,

they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself.

For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

Courage is the first of human qualities,

because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear -

not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.

It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton

Perfect courage is todo without witnesses

what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in

which we really stop to look fear in the face ...

we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,

we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,

but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

In order to discover new lands,

one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Anonymous

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

You can't test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson

Difficulties

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Difficulties

Real difficulties can be overcome;

it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail

The individual who know the score about

life sees difficulties as opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

There are two ways of meeting difficulties:

you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome

You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and

have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault.

The same with man. No man will succeed unless

he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J.H. Boetcker

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask,

Compared to what?
Sydney J. Harris

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,

you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn

If you would only recognize that life is hard,

things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in

difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty

that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle

No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our

wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us,

no obstacle is too great to overcome.
Roy Lessin

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most

useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this:

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes,

hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say,

"I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers

Difficulties should act as a tonic.

They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately;

the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William E. Channing

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed,

it is difficulties that make the triumph.

It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
Source Unknown

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time

they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Lady Holland

For every mountain there is a miracle.
Robert H. Schuller

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.

I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;

but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving

A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
Gunderson

Obstacles are like wild animals.

They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.

If they see you are afraid of them...

they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye,

they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort

and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
African Proverb

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,

they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Enthusiasm

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Enthusiasm

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles

and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale

I studied the lives of great men and famous women,

and I found that the men and women who got to

the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand,

with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,

let it be - enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream.

This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it,

taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it?

You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and

without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
Kahlil Gibran

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and

who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts

find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out,

so will new opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

There is a real magic in enthusiasm.

It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm

will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball

FAILURE

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Failure

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Ferdinand Foch

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Collins, Marva

I don't know the the key to success,

but the key to failure is trying to please everbody.
Cosby, Bill

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Lombardi, Vince

There is always another chance...

This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.
Pickford, Mary

Far better it is to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Roosevelt, Theodore

Nobody makes a greater mistake than

he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes.

You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers --

they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw

The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard

So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.

Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success;

we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do;

and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -

not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
O. A. Battista

I have made mistakes,

but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow.

Pain nourishes your courage.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill

The way a man plays a game shows some of his character.

The way he loses shows all of it.
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize

how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't accept failure as a possibility,

you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -

you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action.

You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure

until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs

There are two kinds of failures:

The man who will do nothing he is told,

and the man who will do nothing else.
Perle Thompson

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson, Sr

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.
SueEllen Fried

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford

The majority of men meet with failure because

of their lack of persistence in creating new plans

to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at

something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

Many people dream of success. To me,

success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Soichiro Honda

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people

who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move.

Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Gopal Bose

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Walter Brunell

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me

. . Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
German Proverb

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

There is something good in all seeming failures.

You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sri Swami Sivananda

Happiness

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Happiness

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves.

It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel,

like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.
Frank Tyger

Giving of yourself, learning to be tolerant, giving recognition and

approval to others, remaining flexible enough to mature and learn -

yields happiness, harmony, contentment and productivity.

These are the qualities of a rich life, the bounteous harvest of getting along with people.
Jack C Yewell

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are

something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see

if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve!

It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy.
George Matthew Adams

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others

without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have,

or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things

we do have and can have. As we value our happiness

let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons

in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Richard L. Evans

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now.

The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad.

The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen

Those who have easy,

cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than

those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money,

'making it', or success.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.

Poverty and wealth have both failed.
KIN HUBBARD

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;

but often we look so long at the closed door that

we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Keller, Helen

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
Alma Guillermoprieto

Life is to be fortified by many friendships.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

Did you ever see an unhappy horse?

Did you ever see bird that had the blues?

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because

they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie

Many people think that if they were only in some other place,

or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful.

So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as

you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world,

whether you have money or not.
Jerry Gellis

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone

that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Roger L'Estrange

You have succeeded in life when all you really

want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard

We are more interested in making others believe

we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned,

worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual

experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Anonymous

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Anonymous

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
Jim Rohn

It doesn't get any better than this.
Author Unknown

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus A. Antoninus

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Motivation

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Motivation

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -

that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire.

No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley

Motivation is a fire from within.

If someone else tries to light that fire under you,

chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen R. Covey

Motivation comes from within.
Author Unknown

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity,

no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done,

it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope,

not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

People become really quite remarkable when they start

thinking that they can do things.

When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything

happen as long as you keep yourself centered.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

TIME

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Time

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it.

Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
P.W. Litchfield

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have

if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott

Time heals what reason cannot.
Seneca

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz

Don't say you don't have enough time.

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,

Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,

Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

It takes time to build a castle.
Irish Proverb

A minute now is better than a minute later.
Anonymous

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Anonymous

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Anonymous

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time

we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time,

there was no time left to you.
Lisa Alther

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Diogenes Laetius

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ...
Michel de Montaigne

Time is really the only capital that any human being has,

and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Thomas Edison

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy

Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Franklin

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours.

They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge.

If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour.

What will you do with this priceless treasure?
Author Unknown

Don't be fooled by the calendar.

There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

One man gets only a week's value out of a year

while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
Charles Richards

Perseverance

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Perseverance

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is:

that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and

the exercise of ordinary qualities.

These may for the most part be summed up in these two -

common sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch

God helps those who persevere.
The Koran

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want,

the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by

people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before

which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game,

one foot from a winning touchdown.
H. Ross Perot

A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where

you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Norman Vincent Peale

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary

people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Herhiser

How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn

Perseverance is a great element of success;

if you only knock long enough and loud enough at

the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour.
Catherine Pulsifer

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews

Success

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Success

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing happens until I make it happen.
contributed by: Scott Wilson

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Mark Twain

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
John R. Amos

Thre is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Wilson Mizner

Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.
Dave Gardner

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell

Opportunity

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Opportunity

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power living latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Marden, Orison Swett

Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.
Contributed by Joe Brown

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Too many people are thinking of securty instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young, Jr.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be home.
Jinger Heath

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demmosthenes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control.
M. Charles Wheeler

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
English Proverb

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
George Matthew Adams

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Anonymous

LIFE

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Life

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey

You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Cicero

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller

Life's more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Hansen, Grace

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Hubbard, Elbert

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Sachs, A.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi, Hsieh

Life without love is a shadow of things that might be.
Unknown

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
VanDyke, Henry

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
HENRY JAMES

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
David O. McKay

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruyere

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life.
John Homer Miller

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Determination

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Determination

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

Where there's a will there's a way.
English Proverb

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
John J. Watson

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons

Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!
Catherine Pulsifer

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer

We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal

Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brock

Excuses

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Excuses

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller

He who excuses himself accuses himself.
Gabriel Meurier

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
Don Wilder

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
Yiddish Proverb

No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life.
Eric Hoffer

Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. 'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.' Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years.
Catherine Pulsifer

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois La Rochefoucauld

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George W. Carver

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger

DREAMS

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Dreams

Among all human constructions the only ones that avoid the dissolving hands of time are castles in the air.
Frederico de Roberto

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.
H.F. Hedge

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.
Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - if this; dream a great dream.
John A. Appleman

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Vic Braden

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
James Dean

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein

All men of action are dreamers.
James G. Huneker

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
Neil Kendall

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
Robert F. Kennedy

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
K Denis Waitley

Without dreams, there is no reality!
Luis B. Couto

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Diana Ross

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump

GOALS

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Denis Watley

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Edmund Hillary

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Stephen A. Brennan

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Fitzhugh Dodson

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.
Kurt Thomas

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Marsha Sinetar

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Charles C. Noble

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Sydney Smith

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out
Ronald Reagan

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Aristotle

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
Kathy Seligman

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Paul Meyer

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland

Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.
Susan Polis Schultz

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
Steve Garvey

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
Scott Reed

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin Mays

Goals determine what you're going to be.
Julius Erving

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
David Joseph Schwartz

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.
Author Unknown

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Helmut Schmidt

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
Earl Nightingale

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Ralph Waldo Emereson

When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
Douglas Lurtan

Great minds have purposes, others have dreams.
Washington Irving

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Booker T. Washington

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

The most important thing about goals is having one.
Geoffry F. Abert

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
Clarence Thomas

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

Be sure to take the most direct route to your dreams. Never take your eyes off your goal, or you will loose course. Never look back in sorrow, or you will trip.
submitted by Joe Brown

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale

Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish.
Catherine Pulsifer

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You have to know what you want to get.
Gertrude Stein

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Earl Nightingale

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars..
Les Brown

The unfortunate aspect about living life without your own goals is that you may very well reach a point in your life where you will wonder, 'what would have happened if I had only done...
Catherine Pulsifer

Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
Unknown

Step-By-Step Goal Setting Tutorial- ( 7 STEP )

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Step-By-Step Goal Setting Tutorial- Total of 7- STEP.

Step1 > Step2 > Step 3 > Step 4 > Step 5 > Step 6 > Step 7 .

Step 1: Choose a Goal

You should start with one goal and stay focused on this goal at least for 30 days.

If after 30 days you feel you’re doing well and getting closer to the desired outcome you can start with the second goal.

The simple rule is: Don’t set a lot of goals at the same time.
You won’t achieve any. The key to goal setting is staying focused.
And it is impossible to focus at many goals at the same time.

Start with the most important one. Have you chose one?

Step 2: Intensify your Desire to Achieve your Goal.
Have you ever failed to achieve your goals?

Do you know the single most important reason why you couldn’t reach it?

The answer is simple: Because we did not have a strong enough desire.

Some may argue with that. "But I did have a strong desire and still I didn't get there."

Sorry, but if you didn’t reach your goal your desire was still not strong enough.

So what is the intense desire, passion?

It's what keeps people working all hours, up early, late to bed. The desire dominates conversation, thinking, actions.

Take a moment to think about the goal you've set for yourself.

How committed are you to achieving this goal?
Under what conditions would you give up?
What if you wanted them so badly that you knew with absolute certainty that you would absolutely, positively never ever give up?

Make sure your desire is strong enough and......

Step 3: Develop a Strong Belief That You Can Achieve Your Goal.

If you don't believe you can reach a goal you won’t.

If there is any doubt in your mind that you can achieve something, you don't give it your all. In fact, you may very well just set it aside. In order to fully achieve anything, you must believe it is possible at a cellular level.

If you believe that you can be successful, that you'll enjoy being successful, then you will be successful.

Do you really believe you can achieve your goal?
If yes,.. c

Step 4: Set a Deadline for Your Goal.
Set a realistic date when you plan to accomplish your goal.

Don’t commit to “as soon as possible”!

If you don’t have a specific deadline for your goal, you won’t have a sense of urgency and you’ll start to put things off. What’s the hurry, if you don’t have a deadline?

Deadline will move you to action!

After you set a deadline it's time to . Set a realistic date when you plan to accomplish your goal.

Don’t commit to “as soon as possible”!

If you don’t have a specific deadline for your goal, you won’t have a sense of urgency and you’ll start to put things off. What’s the hurry, if you don’t have a deadline?

Deadline will move you to action!

After you set a deadline it's time to Go to the next ...

Step 5: Write Your Goal Down.
You’ve probably heard hundreds of times that
it is crucial to write your goal down.

But do you know why this step is so important?

When you put pen to paper you turn your thoughts into something tangible.

You can actually see it, touch it, and even smell it if you want to.

Your goal is no longer just a thought!

It becomes something, what motivates us and creates a gut feeling inside.

Even the act of using the eye in coordination with the hand holding

the pen makes a much stronger impression on our mind as we

write out the phrase or expression.

Now when we read and re-read that phrase or sentence the impression

on the mind becomes deeper and deeper.

There is something semi-magical about writing one's goals down which

makes achieving well-written goals an almost certainty.

Write your goal down and.......
Step 6: Break Your Goal Down ToMini-Goals
Now is the time to start planning the route towards your goal!

We’ll start by breaking up your big goal into smaller mini-goals.

Most people fail to achieve their goal simply because they don’t

break them down into smaller steps. All they can see is this big

overwhelming goal they’ve set for themselves and they

don’t know where to start working on it!

Mini-goals let you track your progress more efficiently
Mini-goals are not so overwhelming
Mini-goals are easier to achieve
Mini-goals let you feel the progress.

Every goal can be broken into mini goals. Mini goals should never

be too difficult or too long. You don’t want to be overwhelmed by them.

Ask yourself: “What steps do I need to take to achieve my goal?”

These steps will be your mini-goals.

After defining your mini-goals.....

Step 7: Define Your Tasks for EveryMini-Goal..

We’re going to make it even easier. We’ll break down every

mini-goal into small easy-to-accomplish tasks.

Tasks are usually the simple things you must do to accomplish a mini-goal.

If you've set a mini-goal, for example, to have a complete understanding

about investing in bonds by June 15th, you will have to accomplish

a number of tasks for acquiring that knowledge.

Choosing to go to the library and get a book on bonds would be a task.
Reading the book for one hour on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
could be three separate tasks.
Visiting the Investors Skills' website for their bond information would be another task.
Calling your buddy who's had success in the bond market would be a task as well.

All of these tasks must be set with a deadline.

By focusing your mind on the easy-to-accomplish tasks, and completing those tasks,

you'll be making great progress towards your mini-goals without feeling overwhelmed.

Make sure to write down ALL tasks, even those that take only minutes to complete.

Then, when they're accomplished, check them off.

As more and more tasks are successfully accomplished, and checked off,

you'll find yourself becoming more encouraged, and more confident about your abilities.

And the more tasks you complete on time, the closer you'll be to success.....