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Put your future in good hands. Your own.
Sep 10, 2025
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists' commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand.
Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.
A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you aspire to achieve goals in the material world you cannot fulfill yourself spiritually, or vice versa. However, since all of us, at some level, long for fulfillment in all aspects of our life, it is essential to understand that these two aims are not mutually exclusive.
You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.
Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.
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.
The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
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.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Seeing ourselves as we want to be is a key to personal growth. To successfully bring about change in our lives we need to implement a system of change that is build upon three assumptions. First Assumption: We change our lives by changing the attitudes of our minds. Second Assumption: We become what we think about all day long. Third Assumption: Our mind is naturally goal seeking. Please remember these assumptions. Our mind is always trying to accomplish something. We have a powerful machine wanting to achieve goals. It will set the goals that we allow it to.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do