The Goals Guy

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THE TRUTH

Heres an inconvenient truth

Your success in every aspect of your life requires an enormous thresholdof discomfort and inconvenience because of the many sacrifices involved.

Inconvenience and discomfort are part of the foundational building blocks

of success and every person who has ever been legitimately successfulhas formed the habit of doing things that others dont like to do.

It's time to get in the game and play to win.

FINISH STRONG

The words Finish Strong instantly and clearly communicate a performancegoal perhaps better than any other two words you'll ever find.

Finish Strong is a powerful platform for leading yourself to success as it:

* Creates a lasting true north to guide thought and behavior.

* Places an exclamation mark on all activities.

* Signifies leadership, pride, and high standards.

* Closes the gap between promises and performance.

* Demonstrates a competitive spirit and winning "kick".

* Ensures that you gave your all to the task at hand.

STEP UP YOUR GAME

Think of a day, any day in your life...

Got one?

Good!

Now ask yourself if on that day, if there was ever not a need for:

Focus,

Honesty,

Integrity,

Discipline,

Character,

Compassion,

Self-control,

or Perseverance.

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And the answer is, of course not.

What this means is that each day provides you with ongoing opportunitiesto demonstrate greatness and practice virtue.

SUCCESS

Success is a journey, a maze of obstacles, options, and opportunitiesalong with failure, ambiguity, and rework.

The success you enjoy depends upon many things, but mostly it dependson you and your ability to execute until the goal is achieved.

GET SERIOUS

Most people misunderstand and mis-define the word serious.

They view it as stoic, non-smiling, stiff, non-humorous, and boring.

Hardly.

Serious is the intention, the intensity, and the focus that you put into yourwork ethic and your personal ethics.

Serious is a way of life, a way of business, a way of selling, and a way ofserving.

How serious are you?

What are you serious about?

Is it time for you to get serious and get busy on your goals?

I am serious about providing you with the tools and resources that inspire,promote, and celebrate excellence.

I realize that times are tough right now and many of my customers needhelp, and they need it now.

The best advice I can provide you right now is to GET SERIOUS about your

life, your business, and your career.

You have no choice but to accept the following aggressive statement asreality.

Your life and circumstances will ONLY begin to improve

when you take massive action on your goals,

when you demonstrate initiative and self-reliance.

when you truly commit your life to excellence.

when you take full responsibility and eliminate excuses.

and, when you get serious about getting serious.

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Until you decide to get serious about creating a better future, you willforever remain in the situation you are in.

PSYCHOLOGICAL NU*DITY

You must never forget that your mind thinks about what it is exposed too.

Therefore, consciously give serious and consistent exposure to whateveris:

- True

- Noble

- Right

- Pure

- Lovely

- Admirable

If anything is excellent or praiseworthyexpose yourself accordingly.

* YOUR TWO-STEP CHALLENGE

Your challenge each and every day is twofold:

Step 1. Expose yourself to new ideas, to stimulating conversation, topositivity, to goodhonorable people, to quality music, to healthy food,

and...Anything that is virtuous.Step 2. Expose other people to your good character, sound judgment, andto your helpful nature. You must expose people to the example you wantemulated in society.

You must consistently expose yourself, your children, employees andfriends to world-class ideas, and that is exactly why I created EverythingCounts!

ARE YOU IN NEED OF FOCUS?

There's only 24 hours in a day, that's a given. However, it's how you focusthem that really count.

Between the ringing of the phone, urgent emails, instant messages, drop-in visitors, tighter deadlines, endless opportunities, and ever greaterexpectations, focusing on what's most important the highest and bestuse of your time has become more of a challenge than ever before.

With all the distractions that abound on a daily basis, you can lose focusrather easily and be pulled off course routinely.

Every new opportunity is a contestant for time and focus that once lostcreates collateral damage to existing results and momentum.

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Time is the most precious of life's commodities and the precious thingsand possessions you long for become faded memories without sustainedfocus.

You must jealously guard your focus as ANY individual or organization inwhich focus is either absent or incidental is not a successful organization.

Lack of focus means your full potential will never see the light of day. It isthe key ingredient that can make or break your career and ultimately yourlife.

Focus is a strategic asset and the KEY FACTOR behind all results.

Results require that you concentrate your efforts on the smallest numberof activities that will produce the largest amount of productivity.

Focus is the future in the sense that it makes a prediction about where thefuture lies and then to take specific steps to make the future happen.

Focus is a language that speaks simply and eloquently to the fundamentalhuman similarity between people?

SELF-RELIANCE

My favourite quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson provides us with theperfect entree into today's lesson on self-reliance;

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters comparedto what lies within us!"

If we all accepted Emerson's observation and became acutely aware ofthe awesome power that lies within, the world would be radically andimmediately altered in a positive way.

Self-reliance is all about freedom from the control or influence of outsideparties.

It's a simple concept that encourages each of us to take responsibility forour own needs--physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and economic.

To put it more directly, it's an understanding that nobody owes you

anything!

How Do You Become Self-Reliant?

The following is a radical four-point self-reliance plan:

1. You Must Become a Nonconformist

You must avoid following popular opinion and avoid conforming to theweak and highly vulnerable will of the majority. You must trust your owninstincts, ideas, principles and common sense.

2. You Must Surrender Unnecessary Dependence

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Identify where you are currently dependent by taking inventory of yourlife. Look for any unnecessary and unhealthy situations and resolve tomove to a state of self-reliance.

3. You Must Work and Produce Results

Honorable work is the most foundational source of happiness, self-worthand prosperity. Your greatest asset and primary sense of security freedomextends from your ability to produce results and that's what self-relianceis all about.

4. You Must Take Full Advantage of Educational Opportunities.

Those who have the lowest levels of skill and the weakest capacity forconstant updating will find themselves uncompetitive, unemployed, andhighly dependent upon others.

Therefore, it is imperative that everyone commit to becoming a studentfor life.

The world NEEDS strong, self-reliant men and women.

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