John Goddard[1], one of the world’s most famous anthropologists, explorers, and adventurers is remembered as the world’s greatest goal achiever and survivor of numerous edge-of-death experiences through his 89 years of life. He documented his adventures on film and showed them to thousands of youth and adults across the globe, inspiring them to set and achieve goals. His motto was: To dare is to do — to fear is to fail.
He had written 127 goals in early age and achieved almost 95% of them. Some of his goals included from swimming across Nile river, climb Everest, visit Taj Mahal, compose music, milk poisonous snake, live through 21 centuries, to visit moon etc. The LA Times called him, “The real-life Indiana Jones” and one of his expeditions, “the most amazing adventure of this generation.”
For me GOALS mean:
Go, Out, And, Learn, Success.
Recently I again read ‘Goals’, the bestselling book of Brain Tracy and fetched his following 12 points to my mind.
1. Have a desire
2. Believe
3. Write it down
4. Analyze your starting point
5. Determine why you want to excel in this area
6. Set a deadline
7. Identify the obstacles
8. Determine the additional knowledge and skill you need
9. Determine the people you’ll need
10. Make a plan
11. Visualize
12. Never give up
I strongly suggest to apply these steps in your life: be it your financial or career goals, or your family and relationships goals.
Key Takeaways
1. Journey rather than destination increases your chances of success.
2. The smallest change in your life is the part of your biggest success.
3. We have power and privilege over other animals with respect to goals.
[1] Source: https://johngoddard.info
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