Defining our goals
We rise by lifting others.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
When you're not pursuing your goal you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
“Winning" is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Value is created when a person makes something useful and shares it with the world.
Goal setting is similar to traveling from point A to point B within a city. If you clearly understand what the goal is, you will definitely reach the destination because you know its address.
Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them.
...I’ve discovered that if you want to reach your true potential, it’s much more effective to ignite a new passion for life than to dwell on past problems.
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
If you’re living a goal-focused life, then no matter what you have, it’s never enough.
Be the person with embarrassing goals and impressive results instead of one of the many people with impressive goals and embarrassing results.
It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Unlike longings, hopes, or even concrete goals, these affirmations can manifest in every moment when you hold them in your heart. Then you naturally and easily behave in accordance with your dream, accessing the tremendous power of courage.
It’s through giving that we receive; it’s through acts of kindness directed toward others that our immune systems are strengthened and even our serotonin levels increased!
The process of setting a goal on the outer boundaries of what we think is possible, and then systematically pursuing it, is one of the most fulfilling parts about being human. It’s also a good thing that we want to take our game to the next level because, more than ever, we have no other choice.
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
When you come to another with love in your heart, asking nothing, only offering that love, you create miraculous relationships.
Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.
If you help others, you will be helped.
Studies have shown that we are often so worried about failure that we create vague goals, so that nobody can point the finger when we don’t achieve them. We come up with face-saving excuses, even before we have attempted anything.
It’s easy to imagine that artists doubted their calling less when working in the service of God than when working in the service of self.
If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”).
If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up “career capital” by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the traits that define great work.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
But now I realize that the only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.
Every day, work harder on yourself than anything else. ‘Cause if you become more intelligent, more valuable, more skilled, you can add more value to other people.
Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others--sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on--can sometimes have dangerous side effects.
Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going?
David Kohl, professor emeritus at Virginia Tech University, has found that individuals who write down their goals will have nine times the success of those who don’t put their goals on paper.
You were put here on earth to do something that no one else can do. It is yours and yours alone to complete. It requires you to be your highest self and if you don’t do that thing, you are going to inhibit those around you from doing theirs. As a Multiplier, it is your obligation to spend time on things today that create more opportunity for those around you tomorrow. It is to do the things that are right, not only for now, but for the future.
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on. It’s as if you’re giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas, and creativity surrounding you.
One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.
The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome.
The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome.
If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.
...once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals...
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
When we spend money on others, for example, we feel more content than when we spend money on ourselves. This is a kind of well-being rooted in meaning, connection, and equanimity—called eudaimonia by the ancient Greeks and in modern times perhaps called “inner” or “true” happiness.
Love is the total commitment to the full development of the potential of the other.
It’s in bringing others the healing gifts we’ve received that the benefits of these gifts become truly ours.
You must sell benefits, not products.
Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, “Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.
What keeps me going is goals.
Great minds have taught ‘know thyself,’ ‘control thyself,’ and ‘give thyself,’ and I would emphasize that there is power in that sequence.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature.
….You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have been granted life in order to give, because it is in giving that we receive....
Our goal, which we believed to be honorable and noble, gave us courage. And courage is a remarkable quality. Nothing and nobody can stand in your way. Without it, others will define your path forward. Without it, you are at the mercy of life's temptations. Without courage, men will be ruled by tyrants and despots. Without courage, no great society can flourish. Without courage, the bullies of the world rise up. With it, you can accomplish any goal. With it, you can defy and defeat evil.
The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.
Real strength has to do with helping others.
Ask yourself whether the goals you have set are equal to your potential.
In the end all collaborations are love stories.