Before your start the journey to success you have to answer a number of questions with a high degree of personal honesty.
1 At what?
Personal Life
Sport
Career
Business
etc
2 What would be considered success by you?
Money
Power
Position
Relationships
Helping Others
etc
3 What personal price are you prepared to pay?
Change Suburbs
Change Cities
Change Countries
Work harder/longer than your competitor
Risk a relationship
Obtain further education
Learn a foreign language
etc
To answer some of these questions you have to go to the end of your journey for guidance. If you are informed that you have less than a few days to live what would your thoughts be? Would you rush to your bank account to see how much money you have or would you review your personal assets, would you reflect on what experiences you have had throughout your life, what people you have known, what challenges you have overcome, what are your relationships with your family and friends.
These questions are not designed to denigrate money but to put it into perspective as a commodity not a god and should be used as a method of achieving many other goals and experiences that can not be achieved without it. For many helping others is their goal and success comes from fulfilling that goal to the best of their ability.
Goal setting sounds easy but without a written explicit goal we as humans can sometimes wonder, procrastinate and generally lose focus and with it diminish our chances of succeeding.
One lesson I learnt early was “ We are what we think” If we think we can we have every chance of succeeding and conversely if we think we can’t we wont. Life provides many opportunities to be distracted and that is where a WRITTEN GOAL: which is constantly reviewed is so important just as a road map is required to arrive at our destination.
Once you have chosen your destination (goal) then record a number of sub goals which will lead you down your chosen path just as you look for motorway entries and exists on a road map on the way to the ultimate destination.
Written by KME a person who made the journey from part time storeman to Chairman of the board and minority shareholder of a subsidiary company which was part of a respected International Organisation.
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