Book Goals! by Brian Tracy

“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a

new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and

channeled toward some great good.” (Brian Tracy)

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.

Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals

unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal

attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents

of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your

target.

The truth is that you probably have more natural potential than

you could use if you lived one hundred lifetimes. Whatever you have

accomplished up until now is only a small fraction of what is truly

possible for you. One of the rules for success is this, it doesn’t matter

where you’re coming from; all that matters is where you’re going.

And where you are going is solely determined by yourself and your

own thoughts.

Clear goals increase your confidence, develop your competence

and boost your levels of motivation. As sales trainer Tom Hopkins

says, Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

You Create Your Own World

Perhaps the greatest discovery in human history is the power of

your mind to create the aspects of your life. Everything you see

around you in the man-made world began as a thought or an idea in

the mind of a single person before it was translated into reality.

Everything in your life started as a thought, a wish, a hope or a

dream, either in your mind, or in the mind of someone else. Your

thoughts are creative. Your thoughts form and shape your world and

everything that happens to you.

The great summary statement of all religions, philosophies,

metaphysics, psychology and success is this: “You become what you

think about — most of the time.” Your outer world ultimately

becomes a reflection of your inner world, and mirrors back to you

what you think about. Whatever you think about continuously

emerges in your reality.

Many thousands of successful people have been asked what it

is that they think about most of the time. The most common answer

given by successful people is that they think about what they want,

and how to get it most of the time.

Unsuccessful, unhappy people think and talk about what they

don’t want most of the time. They talk about their problems and

worries, and who is to blame, most of the time. But successful people

keep their thoughts and conversation on the topics of their most

intensely desired goals. They think and talk about what they want

most of the time.

Living without clear goals is like driving in a thick fog. No

matter how powerful or well engineered your car, you drive slowly,

hesitantly, making little progress on even the smoothest road.

Deciding upon your goals clears the fog immediately and allows you

to focus and channel your energies and abilities. Clear goals enable

you to step on the accelerator of your own life and leap ahead rapidly

toward achieving more of the things you really want.

Your Automatic Goal Seeking Function

Imagine this exercise: you take a homing pigeon out of its roost,

put it in a cage, cover the cage with a blanket, put the cage in a box

and then place the box into a closed truck cab. You can then drive a

thousand miles in any direction. If you then open the truck cab, take

out the box, take off the blanket and let the homing pigeon out of the

cage, the homing pigeon will fly up into the air, circle three times and

then fly unerringly back to its home roost a thousand miles away.

This is the only creature on earth that has this incredible cybernetic,

goal-seeking function, except for man.

You have the same goal achieving ability as the homing pigeon,

but with one marvelous addition. When you are absolutely clear

about your goal, you do not even have to know where it is or how it

is to be achieved. By simply deciding exactly what it is you want, you

will begin to move unerringly toward your goal, and your goal will

start to move unerringly toward you. At exactly the right time, and in

exactly the right place, you and the goal will meet.

Because of this incredible cybernetic mechanism located deep

within your mind, you always achieve your goals, whatever they are.

You move toward them and they move toward you. If your goal is to

get home at night and watch television, you will almost certainly

achieve it. If your goal is to create a wonderful life full of health,

happiness and prosperity, you will achieve that as well. Like a

computer, your goal seeking mechanism is non-judgmental. It works

automatically and continuously to bring you what you want,

regardless of what you program into it.

Nature doesn’t care about the size or scope of your goals. If you

set little goals, your automatic goal achieving mechanism will enable

you to achieve little goals. If you set large goals, this natural

capability will enable you to achieve large goals. The size, scope and

detail of the goals you choose to think about most of the time is

completely up to you.