It's Jim Rohn's Guide to Goal Setting.``
He made us to understand the essentiality of goal setting.
Though with the way he started the book, it was made clear that *it is very possible for a man to live life without any goal place.*
_He (Jim) himself was once a victim of life without goal. He lived the way it came and ran his life accidentally._
*Until when His mentor, Mr. Earl Shoaff asked him to bring his list of goals and help him build ideas around it.*
_Jim couldn't table any list because it wasn't his pattern of life, just like many of us today._
*We shun what it takes to set goal and operate on whatever comes.*
_Mr. Shoaff was able to predict Jim's account balance simply because he was a man without goal._
*Oh; this got Jim that even to the very amount in a man's account, everything about a man without goals would be affected. And from thence, he got serious with the matter of Goal Setting for oneself.*
*Many of us have been a victim of this same experience and many are yet victims. The reason our lives are the way it is, is because there is no template on which we run with and everything about us suffer for it.*
_Our finances, relationship, career, emotion, health and what have you._
If only after reading this book we would be intentional, then there is assurance for change.
Jim, in this book revealed that; *Goal Setting is a _"Skill"_ which could be "Developed" if we see the need to.*
Nobody is born automatically as a Goal Setter, it is seeing it as an element for a simplified life and being intentional to it that it would be a skill to develop.
_The author further revealed that Goals help to Design ones life._
*A life best lived is a life by design. A life that is given to dimensions, structure, colour, objectives and sense of purpose; which yields an absolute result.*
That's a life with Goals.
A goal you don't set doesn't give you result.
*Some people got some results and were never conscious of the results. Why? Because the results came without goal to getting such results.*
_So, according to Jim; Goal setting creates platform to experience the power of imagination._
*With goal setting you can think of a future, it helps to think of the rest of the day or year, think of 5years or 10.*
_Goals helps to create a life of possibilities._
Jim revealed 5 things that affect us.
*1. The Environment.*
Our environment has a way affecting us. It shapes us and influences our behavior and the activities in our lives.
_And the environment is so depending on what we contribute there._
*Rohn says if everybody contributed (the right things), what a different it would make.*
*2. Event.*
We are also affected by events and activities; be it local events, national or global. It could be family events and so.
Whatever we commit ourselves to is what shape and influence our life.
_Watch the events you participate in._
*3. Knowledge.*
The author noted; *Ignorance is no bliss.*
Ignorance leads to lack, shortens life, it leads to disease, it empties one.
_Ignorance affect what we know and don't know._
Simply put, ignorance as an art of ignoring the prerequisites of life leads to a perishing life.
*4. Results.*
Jim says; Discipline undone in the future gives us poor results and discipline managed well gives us good results.
_What you are not committed to doing will not yield a tangible results._
*5. Our Dreams.*
Our dream has a way it affects us. Our vision for tomorrow influences what we do today.
*The Pull of The Future.*
_Every nan is a bag of experiences which comes by different circumstances, so there is tendency of being tied to the past._
Jim revealed that if we will not allow the distractions of our past events (whether good or bad), then we will gain focus on the future.
*Goals becomes the element that pull us to the future. It helps our focus.*
Goals are like Magnets- *THEY PULL.*
_The stronger the goals the stronger they pull us (to the future we anticipate for)._
Not only will our goals pull us- *But they also pull us through.*
*There are phases in time that are full of distractions, down times and different disasters. But our Goals are there to pull us through those periods so that we don't get locked down in the present and loss the radar for advance into the future.*
_What a mighty tool a goal is in the life of a man._🤔
As rightly pointed out from the book;
A life of GOALS provides:
¶. Focus.
¶. Shapes our dreams.
¶. Gives us ability to home on exact actions we must take.
If not for goal, there are certain things we would not have done.
_It helps to determined what we won't do and will do._
*If you see a man that is found everywhere, such is a man without goal.*
*If you see a man that eats everything and anything, such is one without goal.*
_If you see a man that says everything and anything, such lacks goal._
What you do and don't do is determined by the goal you set. Have you any goal?
_For us to reach our Goal we must become better and there is need for Grow._
*While setting a goal, the version of us that would reach the goal isn't the same version that set the goal.*
This is where giving what it takes to reaching a set goal is essential.
*Many who at the beginning of a year set goals but do not reach, it is because the version of them that set the goal is still who they are.*
_They never grow, no development. They don't do what it takes to._
Jim revealed the key aspects to Setting Goals;
*¶. Evaluation and Reflection.*
*¶. Dreams.*
*¶. SMART Goal.*
*¶. Accountability.*
An unexamined life is not worth living.
*To evaluate your life brings you face to face with who you are NOW and what you have become, to creating a vision of who you want to become.*
Your dreams; not what you are now but what you project to become tomorrow.
*It is not what you are satisfied with today. Your dream is a pointer to what you're not satisfied with NOW.*
Jim also noted that when you're accountable (to yourself or to someone) on your goal, it gives you added boost to achieving and accomplishing your goal.
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