Outwitting the Devil
- Thread starter Shirak
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People read Napoleon Hill, they write their five year goals and check them every day... for a few weeks. Five years later they discover the paper under the couch and realize that nothing has changed...
I have a much better way of organizing goals called a goal pyramid. Draw a pyramid [well, a two dimensional one, it's a triangle really]... divide it in three sections. Put your highest goals in the top third, think of all you'd like to accomplish as if you were at your own memorial and looking back on your life... in the middle third put the intermediate goals that you need to accomplish to get to the top third.. the bottom third is hardly more than your daily chore list... if you keep after that chore list you will get to the top goals, who knows how long it all will take but it's best to leave out the demanding time element and just keep on chugging away in the direction that you want to go in.
I have a much better way of organizing goals called a goal pyramid. Draw a pyramid [well, a two dimensional one, it's a triangle really]... divide it in three sections. Put your highest goals in the top third, think of all you'd like to accomplish as if you were at your own memorial and looking back on your life... in the middle third put the intermediate goals that you need to accomplish to get to the top third.. the bottom third is hardly more than your daily chore list... if you keep after that chore list you will get to the top goals, who knows how long it all will take but it's best to leave out the demanding time element and just keep on chugging away in the direction that you want to go in.
As long as you have a life long goal of something that's probably unatainable, everythings fine. You always have that drive and nothing can deter you and everything in your life is centered around that impossible dream.
The problem arises when you achieve that goal. After a brief toast of champagne, panic sets in, because you realize that what's been driving you is no longer there.
Now what? For the first time since I was 16 I have no goal. What the heck do I have to do? Set a new goal?
Other than setting goals and acheiving them is there any other kind of life out there?
No doubt about it, the fun is in getting there, once you've arrived it's great, but only for a short while.
The problem arises when you achieve that goal. After a brief toast of champagne, panic sets in, because you realize that what's been driving you is no longer there.
Now what? For the first time since I was 16 I have no goal. What the heck do I have to do? Set a new goal?
Other than setting goals and acheiving them is there any other kind of life out there?
No doubt about it, the fun is in getting there, once you've arrived it's great, but only for a short while.
"Think and Grow Rich" online:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nth/tgr/index.htm
"His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies)"
"The Law of Success" in the public domain:
http://www.archive.org/details/Law_Of_Success_in_16_Lessons