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Did you know that the first two letters in the word goal are: GO

Victory is not won in miles, but in inches.  Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.  Louis L’Amour

Little strokes fell great oaks.  Benjamin Franklin

Are you familiar with cartoonist Charles Schulz?  For fifty years Schulz entertained us with the exploits of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the Peanuts family.  Schulz filled his cartoon strip with life’s struggles seen through a child’s/animals eyes.  Here is an example of one such strip:

After striking out in a game, Charlie Brown pours his heart out to Lucy—

CB: “I’ll never be a Big league player!  I just don’t have it!  All my life I’ve dreamed of playing in the big leagues, but I know I’ll never make it!”

Lucy: “You’re thinking too far ahead, Charlie Brown.  What you need to do is set yourself more immediate goals.  Start with the next inning, for example.  When you go out to pitch, see if you can walk out to the mound….without falling down.”

Helen Keller stated, “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.  Alex Hailey, author of Roots said, “The way to succeed is to never quit.  That’s it.  But really be humble about it…You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you there.”

What are your goals – the things you want out of life?  Have you ever taken the time to write them down on a piece of paper?  Everything from health, wealth, relationships, travel, where you live, to the type of job you have.  Jack Canfield says, “It may surprise you to know that simply deciding what you want is often the first and most important step to getting it.”

“Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead…..
You can only see one thing clearly and this is your goal.
Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.”
Kathleen Norris

What are your Dreams? Where are you now? Where do you want to be a year from now? What do you see as being necessary to reaching your desire goal? Can you picture yourself being there?

Anytime I want to make a change or achieve anything in my life, I write it down,
along with my plan to accomplish the goal and when I will achieve it.
In this way, I turn each of my goals into action.
Shad Helmstetter

Accentuate the positive – too many people dwell on the negative.  Avoid the negative stinkin’ thinkin’.  It creates doubt and fear, and disempowers you from reaching your goals.  Ask yourself quality empowering questions.  Les Brown, in his book “Live Your Dreams” provides four questions to build your self-esteem:

1. What are your gifts?  What do you do well?
2. What are five qualities that you like about yourself?  The list could include your appearance, and/or qualities such as punctuality, honesty, and a loving spirit.
3. What people make you feel special?  These people inspire something within you, what is it?
4. What moment of personal triumph do you remember?

It is when things go the hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal.  When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.  B.C. Forbes

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