The Power of Goal Setting

Setting deliberate and thoughtful goals, with a well-designed future in mind, shapes the person more than achieving the goal itself.

### Mastering the Art of Goal Setting for a Fulfilling Life
* 🎯 "By setting goals, making designs, and plans, there's no telling what you can do for your personal and socioeconomic life, and **whatever projects you have in mind**."
* 🌟 Acknowledge and build upon the goals you've already set, but aim to set them **deliberately, thoughtfully, and with a plan for greater achievements**.
* 🌍 We are primarily influenced by five things: **environment, events, knowledge, past results, and our view of the future**.
* 😨 The best way to live a fulfilling life is to ensure that the **future exerts the greatest influence on you**.
* 🏆 The best way to anticipate the future is to **design it well**.
* 🚴 Life is like riding a bicycle - you're either **climbing or sliding, growing or dying**.
* 💰 The major value of reaching a goal is not the goal itself, but rather the **person you become** in the process of achieving it.
* 🍀 "Luck is merely taking advantage of opportunity, and it tends to favor those who are **actively working towards their goals**."

I now want to talk about setting goals, and before we get into our goals Workshop, let me give you a few ideas about goal setting that became terribly helpful for me in those early days of all the things Mr. show taught. This is the one I picked up on right away and started making major changes. My income changed from a few hundred a months to a few thousand a month in a matter of months. Some personal development things took me a little longer to get underway, but goal setting I picked it up immediately and went to work on it. No telling what we can do with it, and sure enough, by setting goals, making designs, and plans, putting it together, no telling what you can do for your personal life and social economic life, whatever projects you've got in mind. If you start paying a little more attention, Mr. Scha said to me, Mr. O, you've always set goals, but before now you've probably done it haphazardly and spasmodically rather than deliberately. And that's a good thing to.

note we've already set goals. Only we just haven't done it really thoughtfully and carefully, and with a plan, and with intent, and with deliberation, and consistently. We didn't use it as a plan. We just sort of did it by instinct or by sight, or something grabbed our attention, and we just worked hard and got it. But now he said, I want you to take that same ability, and now I want you to work on goals deliberately, thoughtfully, with preparation. And then he said, You can add such a wider variety of ranges to what you get, and what you accomplish, and what you become, and where you go, just by doing it deliberately, rather than spasmodically, haphazardly. And that made sense to me, to me. And what he did was he gave me credit for what I'd already done, right? Gave me credit for what I already knew. And that's what we want to start with, is a little credit for where we already are, right? We got here some way. This was a goal to get here. We've set

some goals we've done some things but where you might have done it just sort of loosely and once in a while and and you know the ups and downs now from now on with just a few pointers that that I found helpful I think you can start making real deliberate plans really setting it out so that uh goals and dreams for you have an incredible attraction we are primarily affected by five [Music] things and here they are first we're affected by the environment and all of us are affected by environment where we live the community and the traffic and the weather and the smog whatever we're all affected by environment the people around us what's happening what's going on we're all affected by that second we're affected by events things that happen whether they're personal things or Community things National things some of us are happen you know affected by international events does anybody remember the Missile Crisis there's some here old enough right to remember the missile crisis back in what 61 60 61 incredible

time we discovered Cru chf's got his missiles heading for Cuba. They've already prepared the missile sites, and we discover it right. They bring the news to John Kennedy, young president. So Kennedy gets a hold of kief and says, Nikita, you cannot put your missiles in Cuba. We've discovered the sites, and we just can't let that happen. KF, to test the young President, says, Well, I'll tell you what, Mr. Kennedy, we will put our missiles wherever we darn well please. Kennedy says, No, no, you don't understand. You can't put your missiles 90 miles from Florida. You can't Cru chfs as well, You know, if we wish, we will. Kennedy says, You don't understand. And now it's getting a little bit heavy. Right kushev says, The ships with the missiles are already on the way. Kennedy says, You don't understand. We won't let them arrive. Now it is getting heavy. Right. Some of my friends were booking passage to Australia.

right let us get on the other side of the world Chris says if you touch my ships we got War. H. Kennedy says well maybe you don't understand if it is war you will cease to exist people were buying bomb shelters remember back then digging holes in their backyard getting ready it was an event that affected us all and I think Dean Rusk Secretary of State at the time put it best he said Kennedy and KF were staring at each other and fortunately KF blinked and he decided he'd better take his missiles and go go home which he did and the whole world breathes a little easier right events that affect us all third we're affected by knowledge whatever you've learned up until now affects you the books you've read. The experience you've come into possession of the awareness you've accumulated up until now in your life certainly affects you next we're affected by results whatever results accomplishments or failures of the past all those affects the current economic results you have okay all of the results of the past.

affect us. And fifth, we're affected by our view of the future. Now, of all of these five things I've mentioned, in my opinion, here's the best way to live the good life: make sure the greatest pull on your life is the pull of the future. Make sure that exerts its greatest influence on you, the influence of the future. Now, see, some people are mostly affected by the environment, they're mostly affected by their associations, they're mostly affected by what's going on around them. Some people are affected by the past, the failures, what they haven't done, what they haven't got, or some tragedy. They've let that take the greatest toll and make the greatest claim on their lives. But if you really want to live what's known as The Good Life, unique lifestyle, make sure the future has the greatest influence on you. Now, there's two ways to face the future. One is with apprehension, being afraid of the future, being uncertain, the what if this happens game I used to play. What if the money goes wrong? What

if the government doesn't do well, what if there's war? This what if game you can play on the negative side, and sure enough, it is not that difficult if you don't discipline your mind. If you don't discipline your awareness, it is not that difficult to be apprehensive about tomorrow, about next week, next month, next year, the future. Okay, that's one way to face the future, with apprehension. Here's another way to face the future, with anticipation. So, if you can arrange it so that you anticipate the future rather than dread the future, see, that can alter your whole life. 'Cause guess how close the future is? The next minute, that's the future. Okay, the past is quickly receding, and the future is quickly coming. So, we're all concerned right away with the future, right? The next future couple of hours, the next future couple of days, the next future couple of years, that's the future. Now, the best way to anticipate the future is to make sure that a big share of it for your life is

well designed some of the future we anticipate simply by speculating. It looks like humans are figuring out better ways to do things. We anticipate the coming explosion in electronics and all of the things that are being invented for our safety, comfort, and productivity. We can anticipate conquering some diseases, finding a cure for cancer. There's all kinds of positive things to think about, to anticipate for the future. But for your own personal life, the way to anticipate the future is to design it well. Let me give you a little diagram to explain part of this. In our lives, here's what we're primarily involved with. Draw four little boxes. This little box is called potential, and this box is called action. This box is called results, and this box is called attitude. Now, since everything affects everything else, we primarily proceed based on how we feel. Primarily, no part of it is intellect, but the biggest part of it is emotion. How you feel determines whether you read or don't read. Right, reading is not really a skill.

problem now you learn some better skills for better reading, but most of you knew how to read, right before you ever got here. So whether you read or not, it's not really a skill problem, it's an attitude problem. The direction you take is attitude. You can decide to be happy or sad, that's attitude. How you react to a certain situation is primarily attitude, right? You can either care or not care, you can listen or not listen, you can go or not go, right? You can be there or not be there, you can decide or not decide, all that's all by attitude. So attitude is the determining factor. So attitude determines our potential, how much potential we tap, guess how much capacity we have, no telling. I mean, we are just now beginning to understand the mental, emotional human capacity. Our lives are far too brief for the capacity for whatever mystery that is. In one of the old world sayings, it says we get too soon old and too late smart. Now it isn't that we couldn't be smarter, but it just seems as though life

is so brief. We just don't really have a chance to tap in on all of our mental and emotional and awareness capacity. But that's one of the mysteries of life, and it's meant to ponder, I'm sure. But depending on how much potential we tap, that really depends on how we feel. Now, if we don't tap much potential, of course, we're going to have a poor action plan. The person says, Well, I'm not getting there early and leaving late if this is all they're paying. Most everybody wants to know, not most everybody, some people want to know, How little can I do and how much can I get? I found it a bit disturbing when I got to Australia. I found the people incredibly vigorous, but I also found that they were trying to figure out ways to work less and less and earn more and more. Have you heard of that philosophy? The question was, How little can we do and how much can we get? Remember, everything has four parts. Everything has four parts. One is

cause two is effect three is Direction, and four is destination. Everything has those four parts: cause and effect, Direction, and destination. See, the philosophy that says we want to work less and less and less and earn more and more and more puts us on a certain Direction, and I'm sure everybody will agree to that. Now, the ultimate end of the philosophy is, can we finally not do anything and get it all right? That's the final destination of the philosophy: can we do less and less and less and earn more and more and more. Now, the people who go for that philosophy usually say, no, no, no, we don't want to take you that far down the road 'cause that would be bankruptcy for all of us, which is true, right? They say we don't want to take you that far down the road. Well, now the next question is, how far down that road do you want to take us? See, there's always a danger point, right, of going down one road too far because sometimes when momentum is created, demise is soon. You cross the line of no return once you go too far.

so you've always got to be careful of your philosophical approach to make sure the direction you're going and the ultimate destination because one of the major questions for all of us to ask if you keep pursuing your present plan that you've been engaged in for the past year where will it almost ultimately take you in the next 10 20 years because one of the major questions to ask is 10 years from now you will surely arrive the question is where where are you headed with your current reading schedule where are you headed with your current philosophical position where are you headed with your current attitude toward the potential you tap from your own abilities and the action plan you have where will you finally wind up see those are major questions what we all want to make sure is that what we're doing is taking us in the direction we want to go and will cause us to arrive where we want to ride otherwise sure enough 5 10 years from now you could wind up being where you don't want to be wearing what you

don't want to wear driving what you don't want to drive living where you don't want to live. Now's the Time to fix the next 10 years right now's the time to come to some better philosophical conclusions but we're all affected by this how we feel the potential we tap the action we take now. The action we take brings certain amount of results if we've got a poor plan tapping little potential what kind of results do we get awful now if you've got bad results. How do you feel since everything affects everything else yeah lousy that's a good word lousy now if you feel bad what kind of potential do you how many classes do you take how many skills do you learn. You just don't go right now you got a poorer plan you get there later and leave earlier figure out a way to do less instead of more and that brings poor results inflation finally starts eating you up here now you really feel bad now you're not going to tap very many of your skills you're going to come up with a

poorer plan, poorer results, and this cycle now is going down and almost everything is either cycling up or cycling down. Nothing ever just sort of hangs in there, right? Life is sort of like riding a bicycle. You either got to get on or get off, you know, get going or get off. You know, you just can't hang in there, right? We're either climbing or sliding, we're growing or [Music] dying, and how we feel in the cycle of events that are happening in our lives is usually either taking us up or taking us down. Now, if we're going down, we got to step in here somewhere and change all this. Now, question: to change the cycle of what is happening in your life, where do you step in to change this whole process? Attitude. We only proceed from how we feel now. What, you know, determines how you feel, but what happens to you determines how you feel. Humans have the incredible ability to finish the future before they start it. CU, we also talk about that in time management. When should you start the day?

answer don't start the day until you have it finished. question is it possible to finish something before you start it? answer of course humans have this unique ability. it's like building a house. so you don't start building your house till you have it finished. you mean you can finish a house before you start it? yes it would be dumb to start it until you had it finished. okay we finish it by plan. we finish it by Design. now then goals can become like a magnet what you want now is the pull of the future. now some things will pull just because intellectually you're aware of the potential and the possibility of the future. that will pull the discoveries and what can happen and the economy and living in this unique country and the market. Market possibilities and the potentials. I mean you can get excited about that simply intellectually. however for the real pull on your constructive life to progress now you've got to design the future for your personal life. in order for it to pull. but if you'll design it well it will pull. the goals will become like a

magnet okay they will start to pull the better you def find them the stronger they pull now the next part here is give reasons for your goals and we'll get into that when we get to the goals Workshop but just make a little note the reasons for your goals purpose and I have a little phrase for you that says purpose is stronger than object object will pull object welldefined will really pull purpose given to object welldefined pull PS like you can't believe and that's the process of being enticed to get up early stay up late hit it all day entice to read the books and find the answers develop the game plan no detail is too small you're excited about facing the day simply because you've got it welld designed and you've given excellent purpose for it see if you have a goal of a half million doll home that will pull but the next question is what for what's your purpose of the half million doll home you say well for the feelings my family how they're going to feel the

prestige. I'll be able to entertain. See, now we're really getting to the stuff that pulls purpose, really pulls. Now, the purpose can also be for your life and your lifestyle, okay? The purpose for becoming a unique person. What kind of influence do you want to have, right? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? What kind of return do you want in the way of thanks and recognition for the person you've become and your life of sharing? See, once you start dreaming about what you can become, the effect you can have, the joy it's going to give you, the return that's going to come, you just start designing this incredible purpose for your life. And make sure that you include family and friends, because many times what we do for others pulls greater than even what we want for ourselves. If you can see yourself being uniquely benevolent, providing things for people they never dreamed they could have, helping them to accomplish things they never dreamed they could accomplish, how that's going to make you feel, the kind

of person you're going to become from it. The joy you're going to get from it, you just must ponder that and think about it, talk about it, and design it. See, most of the answers for your life, you're not going to find this weekend. You're going to find them out of your own experience. But if we can just get you started, if you can just get started reading, if you can just get started asking questions, if you can get started thinking on paper, that's where the answers are going to flow. I think some lectures, they promise too much for the weekend. One of my wealthy friends says, Mr. Ran, I will not insult you by telling you what to think, but I want to help you by showing you how to think. Because the answers are going to come from your own experience. They're going to come from your own brain power. But if we can have some guidelines, that'll help us to find the answers for the future, see, that can then become a very valuable weekend. And perhaps we've gotten some answers here.

but most of them for your life and the rest of your life are going to come from your own experience. Your own awareness. Your own thinking power. But your new ability to read better and think better and design your life better and have better goals and better time management and a better appreciation of lifestyle and value and uniqueness and intelligence and awareness and intellect. See that whole process now gives you incredibly high chances starting Monday to better your life in a short period of time. You can't believe some of this and what's going to happen to you in the next week, the next month. I know those early days when I first got a hold of some of this from Mr. Cha. I couldn't sleep at night. I couldn't believe that I discovered the man who was going to teach me how to be wealthy. It was just too much for me at first. It was unbelievable. I went down to 118 lb. I mean unbelievable. I almost wasted away. I was so excited. I couldn't eat. I lost my appetite. It's unbelievable. I'm so.

just trembling with excitement to think that I found the answers for wealth happiness lifestyle Fortune World Travel prestige affecting people personality. I couldn't believe I was on the beginning edge of all of that, and I got terribly excited. I finally got to where I could better manage my emotions and handle it a little bit better, but I'm telling you, once some of this opens up, especially in the early going, it is just incredibly exciting when you start thinking of what you can do and what you can earn, what you can become, the kind of person you can be, the influence you can have, and how far you can reach, how many you can touch. It's incredible. I'm still blown away by it all. Somebody asked me, You've been doing these seminars now 17 years. Doesn't it get a little old? And the answer is no. I'm just as excited about doing this one this weekend as I was doing my first one. In fact, I'm more excited about this one because I'm better. The first one's I was worried.

this one. I'm just sheerly excited cuz I know some of you out there are going to be where I was at age 25. And some of this stuff is going to explode on your Consciousness, and you're going to have some stories. And who knows, you may be writing your books, giving your seminars, and you're going to be sharing maybe around the world. Who knows what'll come out of a weekend like this, and I know that, so that's what gets me excited. You never know who you're sharing with, you never know who you've recommended an idea to, you just don't know. And uh, out of a room full of this many people, you know, serious about making changes and getting information, no telling what can happen from this. And the letters and the stories, I already know CU I've had it happen to me now over the last Dozen Years, especially, but it can be exciting. Now the major value of reaching a goal is not to have the goal, but rather the person you have become to acquire it.

the major value of reaching a goal is not to have the goal, but the person you have become to acquire it. See, it's a worthwhile objective to become a millionaire, and the reason, the major reason, is not to get the million dollars. The million dollars is second, third, fourth, no telling how far down the list it is. The real value is the person you became to acquire the money or the net worth. See, after you've become a millionaire, you could throw the money away and not lose very much. And the reason is because you get to retain the person you became, unless you throw yourself away. But see, once you become the person it takes to acquire the goal, now the goal is not the most important value. The most important value is what you became to get it. That's why when you really philosophically understand, put things in their proper perspective, if you happen to lose, you don't really—you don't really mind, right? When they broke into my motor home right and stole all the stuff, I didn't care about the stuff. You can

always buy some more televisions, and um, you know, radios, and tape recorders, and leather briefcases. I mean, you can always replace the stuff. I really did feel a bit concerned about my journals, you know, things just almost irreplaceable. But never regret the loss of things unless they're personal, you know, family treasures or something that have more than just the monetary value. Then you're going to be disappointed. I remember one when I lost all my money. What was unique about that experience was when I lost everything, I really calculated that I lost only about 10% of all my assets 'cause I only lost the money. Now, some people, when they lose their money, they lose 90%. So, right, and that's when you bail out of the 20th window, try to make it like a bird, but see if you lose all of your money, and you really understand that the person you became to acquire it, when the money's gone, you're not gone. You've still got the mental value. You've still got the awareness and the uniqueness.

the skills and whatever it took for you to acquire those possessions, that's the greater value. That's why it's true, the love of money is evil. And the reason is because if you put your love where the money is, instead of the true value of the person, you become to acquire it. Then see, when it's gone, you've lost everything. When Jesus, the master teacher, told the rich man to sell all he had and give to the poor and become a disciple, he was not asking him to do something that was so totally obnoxious and wrong to give away his possessions. It's because the master teacher understood where the true possessions were, right? If he had become a wealthy young ruler, if that's what he became, then he could give all of his possessions away and still not lose any of his wealth because he could still be the person he was. So once you understand where the True Values are, then you use goals not just to reach the goal, but you use goals as an enticement to become a better

person now you're zeroing in on the true Enterprise of life. You want to reap the Harvest not just for the Harvest and what you can cash it in and what it'll bring to you, but for the person you become to acquire this Harvest. For the patience it takes, for the brains it takes, for the discipline it takes, for the organizational ability it takes employing other people, offering opportunity see to get a good harvest comef fall. You got to be quite an enterprising person. So it isn't the Harvest then that's the most value, the most value is the skill and the person, the personality, the discipline, all the things you learned and became to acquire it now becomes primary value. That's why when you really understand the acquisition of wealth, then you don't worry now anymore about your money, who's going to steal it and where is it going to go and who's going to get their hands on it when I'm gone and all that. You just don't worry about that anymore because you've already gotten the

greatest value out of your wealth. If you earned the wealth and you made the wealth, because the greatest value is the person you became to acquire it. Now, if you will begin to apply that philosophical position on all your future projects, you cannot believe the happiness and the uniqueness and the joy that comes with it. You just can't believe. Now, see, it's much easier to get up in the morning because you're going now for the greater value of the person you're going to become to acquire what you wish. Now, you're eager to go for it. See, growing is one of those incredible chances and challenges in life, and now it makes the day much more exciting and much more interesting because we all kind of know that just things are not where the True Values are. So, if we pursue things, sure enough, we're going to wind up disappointed. But if we let things entice us to become better persons to acquire them, now we understand where the true value is. Now, what you'll find happening is

we're getting all these stories about people who come back and say, you know, things that I put on my three-year, five-year list, I got them the first year. One doctor and his wife came back to the ranch, I guess two or three times. Ron, one year they drove their new Rolls and their new Bentley and said, we just wanted to show y'all some of the stuff we've checked off our list, that's neat. They flew over to Europe to get a his and hers, a Rolls and a Bentley, unbelievable. They wanted to double their practice in 3 years, they doubled it in about 10 months, unbelievable. And we keep getting this little called progress report, right about every 6 months, we get this updated progress report that says, let us tell you what's happening to us now. Right once they got started on this, they just zeroed right in and they couldn't believe all these incredible things that start happening. See what you do is if you work on some of these things properly, you let the good surprises of

Life starts stacking in your favor, you know. The good things happen to the people that are out there becoming enterprising and growing and changing. You know, some people call it luck. Let's see, luck is merely taking advantage of opportunity, operating in the marketplace where the good things happen. See, now if you're not out there, it's just not going to happen. You know, luck does not come by and seek you out usually. You know what we call luck falls upon those people that are out there operating in the marketplace, that are out there doing it. You say to the sales person, Oh, you got a lucky sale. No, that was just the 20th sale they worked on, the other 19, and then Here Comes one out of the sky. But unless you're out there, they won't fall on you. Hiding in a cave when they come from the sky, make sure you're out there in the field, working, laboring, where the good things fall. [Music]

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Personal Development

Setting goals deliberately and thoughtfully can lead to significant changes in income and personal development.

Deliberate goal setting, with preparation and consistency, can expand the range of what one can accomplish.

Our environment, the people around us, and significant events all impact and shape our lives.

Events like the Cuban Missile Crisis had a profound effect on people, causing fear and preparation for war.

Our lives are also influenced by the knowledge we gain and the results of our past actions.

However, the key to living a good life is to let the future have the greatest influence on us, facing it with anticipation and designing it well for a positive impact.

The Power of Attitude in Shaping Our Lives

Attitude is the key factor in determining our potential and our direction in life.

It plays a crucial role in how much we tap into our mental and emotional capacity, ultimately affecting our action plan.

The philosophy of wanting to do less and earn more can lead to a dangerous direction and ultimate destination, highlighting the importance of evaluating our current attitude and its potential long-term impact on our lives.

Designing Your Future: The Power of Goals and Purpose

Humans have the unique ability to shape their future before it begins, similar to building a house with a plan.

Goals, when well-defined and given a strong purpose, have the power to pull and entice individuals to work hard and stay motivated.

The key to a constructive and exciting life is to design the future for personal growth, with clear reasons and purpose for each goal.

Designing a Purposeful and Fulfilling Life

Designing a purposeful life involves considering the influence and effect you want to have on others.

It also includes the joy and fulfillment you can gain from helping and giving to others.

Finding answers and improving your life requires better reading, thinking, and goal-setting, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling life.

The Thrill of Personal Growth and Success

The speaker is extremely excited about the potential for personal growth, success, and influence.

They emphasize that the true value of reaching a goal is the person you become in the process, rather than the goal itself.

The speaker shares their philosophy that once you have become the person you need to be to achieve a goal, the goal becomes less important than the personal development gained.

Acquiring material things is replaceable, but personal and irreplaceable items hold true value.

Losing money doesn't equate to losing overall wealth for everyone.

The love of money is considered evil because true wealth lies in the skills and personal growth acquired during the wealth-building process.

Strive to become a better person in the pursuit of wealth, rather than just acquiring things.

Many have found that focusing on personal growth and development leads to unexpected success and fulfillment.

Luck is simply the result of taking advantage of opportunities through hard work and being proactive in the marketplace.