Book Goals! by Brian Tracy

Preface

This book is for ambitious people who want to get ahead faster.

If this is the way you think and feel, you are the person for whom this

book is written. The ideas contained in the pages ahead will save you

years of hard work in achieving the goals that are most important to

you.

I have spoken more than 2000 times before audiences of as

many as 23,000 people, in 24 countries. My seminars and talks have

varied in length from five minutes to five days. In every case, I have

focused on sharing the best ideas I could find on the particular

subject with that audience at that moment. After countless talks on

various themes, if I was only given five minutes to speak to you, and

I could only convey one thought that would help you to be more

successful, I would tell you to “write down your goals, make plans to

achieve them, and work on your plans every single day.”

This advice, if you followed it, would be of more help to you

than anything else you could ever learn. Many university graduates

have told me that this simple concept has been more valuable to them

than four years of study. This idea has changed my life, and the lives

of millions of other people. It will change yours as well.

The Turning Point

A group of successful men got together in Chicago some time

ago, talking about the experiences of their lives. All of them were

millionaires and multi-millionaires. Like most successful people, they

were both humble and grateful for what they had achieved, and for

the blessings that life had bestowed upon them. As they discussed

the reasons why they had managed to achieve so much in life, the

wisest man among them spoke up and said that, in his estimate,

“success is goals, and all else is commentary.”

Your time and your life are precious. The biggest waste of time

and life is for you to spend years accomplishing something that you

could have achieved in only a few months. By following the practical,

proven process of goal setting and goal achieving laid out in this

book, you will be able to accomplish vastly more in a shorter period

of time than you have ever imagined before. The speed at which you

move onward and upward will amaze both yourself and all the

people around you.

By following these simple and easy-to-apply methods and

techniques, you can move quickly from rags to riches in the months

and years ahead. You can transform your experience from poverty

and frustration to affluence and satisfaction. You can go far beyond

your friends and family and achieve more in life than most other

people you know.

In my talks, seminars and consulting, I have worked with more

than two million people all around the world. I have found, over and

over, that an average person with clear goals will run circles around a

genius who is not sure what he or she really wants.

My personal mission statement has not changed in years. It is:

“To help people achieve their goals faster than they ever would in the

absence of my help.”

This book contains the distilled essence of all that I have

learned in the areas of success, achievement and goal attainment. By

following the steps explained in the pages ahead, you will move to

the front of the line in life. For my children, this book is meant to be a

road map and a guide to help you get from wherever you are to

wherever you want to go. For my friends and readers of this book,

my reason for writing it is to give you a proven system that you can

use to move onto the fast track in your own life.

Welcome! A great new adventure is about to begin.