Do You Have A Lifetime Goal?
Monday, November 17, 2008 9:28
So many of us walk through live without a lifetime goal, or a chief definitive purpose (as Napoleon Hill would call it). We take each day as it comes, or have only vague wants from the near future at best.
A recent poll suggested that less than 5% of people had a 5 year goal, and less than 1% knew what they ultimately wanted to do with their lives.
Can you identify with this? If so is it still a great mystery why you are not happy / fulfilled / where you want to be in life? Do you think that the worlds leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and most successful people got to where they want to be in life without setting LONG TERM, and AMBITIOUS goals?…
Besides winning the lottery it is quite difficult to stumble across success, whether it be wealth, fame, orany high level of personal achievement – anyone who has made a success of themselves started from a point of developing a goal, and making plans to achieve that goal. Here is a goal that a little known martial artist made in 1969:
I will be the highest paid Oriental superstar in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting in 1970, I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession the sum of $10,000,000—then I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.
Can you guess who it is? That’s right, Bruce Lee often regarded as the most influential martial artist of the twentieth century – single handedly bringing kung fu to the west in the 1970s.
Bruce Lee’s success started when he set a BIG, LIFETIME GOAL for himself, his success was no accident, he carefully planned it to the minute detail.
The power of planning is immense. This is the first in a series of posts in which I will show you a simple formula for setting your LIFETIME goals, and how to ensure you stick to them, and achieve them.
Part 2 will examine how to set lifetime goals to begin with, see you soon!
