Your Goal Is To Have A Goal!

Good morning, amazing salespeople and businesspeople! As always, I am excited to remind you that you have a who day of amazing opportunities before you … and I am equally excited as I encourage you to find a way to take advantage of every single one of them. This IS your business and it IS your life—what do you want them to be, and ~are they~ what you want them to be? That sounds an awful lot like goals doesn’t it?

Continuing the conversation we started last time about basics, right after we decide that we are absolutely fed up with not progressing … once we realize that we are downright sick and tired of being sick and tired, we meet head on with the need to set a new goal. Goals are amazing things—and NECESSARY things if we’re going to ever go any further than we have up to this point. It’s been said that the majority of people don’t have much trouble accomplishing their goals … they have an incredibly difficult time setting goals in the first place! It’s almost as though the very act of birthing a goal out of our frustration at being sick and tired puts us most of the way there in terms of fulfilling it.

So … what are the most significant goals you’re thinking about for the next week … month … next year? Do your goals feel like a magnet, drawing you forward over the hurdles and through the valleys, or more like the taskmaster’s whip—stinging you each time you come in contact with them?

I really can’t think of anything more ‘basic’ and fundamental to success than setting an exciting goal and then thinking about it over and over and over again until you get there … can you? In fact—one of the best definitions of success (in my opinion) actually makes goals a pre-requisite: ‘Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile GOAL’! In other words, how can we truly say we’ve succeeded if we have not achieved something new … something beyond where we’ve already been?

So what’s it going to be? What is that one thing that is drawing you on the most? What would you MOST like to do, be, or have in your life that is worthwhile and will make the biggest positive impact on your life or your business? Now that you’ve decided you really are sick and tired … how about shifting your focus to that inspiring future that you have committed yourself to?

Here’s to that future … here’s to your goals … here’s to you making today count!

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