Invitation to Success

Goals 2006 Monthly eTips
Issue 1, January
 

Under the leadership of Coach Mack Brown, the University of Texas Longhorns football program has achieved their second national championship in what can definitively be described as the college football game of the ages. Achieving this level of success and respect was not an automatic assumption or an easy road. He didn’t succeed without goals, a game plan.

Statistically, only 3% of the population has written goals. You are now included in that elite group. What are your personal goals? What is your income goal? What is the goal for your health this year? What are you trying to do right now?

The morning of the Rose Bowl game, Vic and I met with John Goddard, who has achieved over 500 of his life goals. I asked him how he even knew to write those first 117 life goals at age 15. John said that he didn’t have TV at that age so he read a lot of books and visualized doing the kind of things he read about. a

When he overheard an older man bemoaning the fact that he wished he were young again so he could make different decisions, John sat down and made his list. He was not going to get towards the end of his life and wish he had done something different. He has had an amazing life experience. By looking at all the artifacts in his home and the memories he shared with us, that is an understatement! He would have missed a lot without his list of life goals.

Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Capitals and an Internet multimillionaire, has a well-known list of life goals and has reached most of them.

Add Lou Holtz to that list. A few years ago Lou Holtz wrote down 107 goals. He has accomplished 102 of those goals! (It’s never too late.) In one of his speeches Lou shared a story about a motivational speech he gave to one of his football teams. His team was a 21-point underdog. Everyone on the team believed they were going to lose the game. Lou asked the team to tell him all of the reasons why they were going to win the game. At first no one answered. After a short while the team began to share reasons why they felt they would win. After an hour they had over 50 reasons why they would win the game. They shifted their focus from why they were going to lose to why they were going to win. They won the game.

Winning, succeeding, realizing your life goals and living your dreams boils down to one simple step … FOCUS! I have chosen to focus on all the reasons WHY I will succeed in 2006, the first step for the rest of my life.

"When the WHY gets stronger, the how gets easier."
-Jim Rohn

WHY will you succeed? You get what you focus on. Simple. True.

Start with one goal. Focus. Know WHY. Make a list of 3 reasons WHY you will succeed in each of your social, career, health, personal and economic categories. That will result in 15 reasons WHY!

Success comes before your each your goal, for it is as simple as taking a step in the right direction.

You are what you believe.  BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

 

Lisa Leguenec