'Success is goals, and all else is commentary'. All successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single-mindedly on achieving it, every single day! Says Brian Tracy, one of the top motivational speakers of this generation.
Why not he should know! He left school at 18 without graduating. His first job was as a dishwasher in a small hotel. From there he moved to washing cars, then floors, becoming a janitor, then to sawmills, dug wells, worked on farm and ranches. He graduated to construction labourer on tall buildings and later itinerant farm labourer during harvest sleeping in barns and eating from the farmers family. But one day, he took out a piece of paper and wrote down an outrageous goal for himself-to earn $1,000 per month in selling door-to-door and office-to-office. 30 days later, his life changed! Within eighteen months he moved from worrying about his next meal to “walking around with a pocket full of $20 bills”.
GOALS set up your life to succeed. To be a great leader, you must be focused on your goals in life. Having goals-daily, weekly, monthly and yearly helps you to focus your life’s energy system. Goals help you to take control of your life, rather than others running your life for you. “The regular and systematic practice of goal-setting will take you from poverty to prosperity, from frustration to fulfilment, from underachievement to success to and satisfaction” says Brian Tracy in his book, Goals: How to Get Everything You Want –Faster than You Thought Possible.
As an extraordinary leader your eyes must be on your VISION as we said in the first series. To achieve that vision you need to set and focus on daily, weekly and monthly goals that will take you there. To be focused means to be single-minded about something or let me show you a mnemonics of FOCUS:
Following carefully established patterns and principles
Overcoming subtle distractions
Culturally relevant without compromise
Using time strategically and judiciously
Seeking God’s supernatural empowerment.
Assignment: Today as you rise up, get a notepad; write down your goals for today, next week and month. Let it guide your day. Focus on those goals no matter what they are, you will achieve more with goals than without. Practice this daily for the next month and your life will take a new dimension!
Bankole Olubamise, Aug 10, 2012.
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