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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, Author If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. JC Penney To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action. The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach. This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. The most important thing about having goals is having one. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. There are also two famous stories about the
amazing persistence of both Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison.
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