Here are some of Zig Ziglar’s more famous quotes about life, goals, and success:

1. I am super good, but I will get better.
2. Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
3. Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn’t nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals - what you will become is the winner you were born to be!
4. Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
5. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
6. Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
7. The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
8. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
9. You can have anything in the world you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.
10. You don’t pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

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I read that quotation yesterday in a friend’s newsletter and had to share it with my readers! What an important distinction this is. We always hear about the importance of knowing who we are and what our values are as we establish our goals. That’s what this quotation is about.

We do set goals for our future, that’s how we make our future become what we want it to be. But, our goals must be consistent with our values. If you try to establish a goal that is inconsistent with your values, you will find it almost impossible to achieve. Why? Because to achieve it you have to work against your values. This doesn’t work. We’re back to the Biblical reminder that no man can serve two masters.

Goals come and go. We set a goal, work to achieve it, then set another. That’s how they’re supposed to work. That’s not how values work. Our values are pretty much constant. We have them now, and they guide our goals and actions. That’s how we live our values. If we are true to ourselves, our goals will take us to a future that still holds those values.

So, when you are envisioning your future seeing it with the results that come from achieving the goals you’re currently pursuing, that vision must be consistent with your values. You can count on your values to guide you.

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• A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you.
• Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
• There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
• To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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See where you can go!

Ok, so you probably don’t have a goal to eat either an elephant or a 1,000 pound marshmallow, but the truth in the answer applies to your large goals too. If you have a large goal, one that will take concentrated effort over a long period of time, you probably need to break it down into bite-sized chunks. As you handle each chunk, you are getting closer to your goal and keeping yourself motivated as well. Here are some things to remember as you plan you “meal.”

First, you need to analyze where you are right now. You really need to understand how big the project is going to be before you can start working toward it. What, exactly, is the goal you want to achieve? Do you need additional skills or education? How much time and effort will you be able to apply on a regular basis? Are you going to need someone guiding you along the way, or can you create your plan on your own? If you have a big goal, you need to do a thorough analysis of what needs to be done before you start.

Now you need to create a plan that’s broken down into those “bite-sized” pieces. By doing this, you will be identifying the incremental steps you will be achieving on your path to the goal. Be sure that each step provides meaningful progress toward your goal, but don’t make them so large that they seem insurmountable. If you do this, you will move from one step to the next with a good attitude because you have accomplished something significant (in the step you just completed); and you will have no problem believing that you can accomplish the next one as well.

As you progress according to your plan, you will probably find yourself more motivated at each step. Why? Because you are experiencing the good feelings of accomplishment, and you are showing yourself more and more that you really can achieve your goal. As you do this, you are actually increasing your motivation AND your momentum!

So, go ahead, eat that elephant! Just remember what your mother taught you about not putting too much food in your mouth at once and to chew each bite thoroughly before swallowing. Next thing you know, your “meal” will be finished, and you’ll be looking for the next one…maybe a rhinoceros this time!

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See where you can go!

• A father carries pictures where his money used to be. Author Unknown
• A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. Anonymous
• Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. Author Unknown
• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them. Jonas Salk
• It is a wise child that knows his own father. Homer
• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. Sigmond Freud
• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways. Sarah Orne Jewett
• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. Confucius
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Henry Ward Beecher
• The love of a father is one of nature’s greatest masterpieces. Anonymous

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So, to all of you fathers out there, Happy Father’s Day! (And, to those of you looking for a Father’s Day gift for someone, I’ll give you a suggestion for a free gift at the end of this post!)

I want to take the occasion of Father’s Day to share a little about my Father. He is in heaven now, but he left many memories with those he left behind; and he left the legacy of a strong, loving, and loved, family.

That’s pretty strong tribute just by itself. But there’s more, and that’s the topic of this post. My dad was a dairy farmer. He never talked a lot about goals and how to achieve them, but he taught me related truths anyway.

First, I learned from little on up the law of sowing and reaping. Are you familiar with that one? Simply, you reap WHAT you sow AFTER you sow it! Reaping a crop is an example of delayed gratification. First, you work hard preparing the soil for the planting. Then, you plant, cultivate, and nurture the crop as it’s growing. Later…months later…you reap the crop. You can’t plant it today and expect to reap tomorrow. It doesn’t work that way!

This is an important concept to remember as we are working to achieve our goals. We will reap WHAT we sow. In other words, we can’t sow careless financial habits and expect to reap the rewards of good financial habits. Also, we reap AFTER we sow. Thinking of finances again, we may need to work our financial plan for many years to achieve the financial result we desire. That result is the goal. We have to work the plan for as long as it takes to achieve it!

The second important lesson I learned from my dad is to never quit. Don’t ever give up! My dad was not some huge financial success owning half the county and getting rich from his efforts. Indeed, I saw him suffer more than one significant setback, financial, physical, and health. But I never saw him quit. He would never just give up and expect someone else to take care of him. Sometimes he had to change the plan he was following, but he always kept going.

That’s another life lesson to apply to your goal achievement process. Try, fail, adjust, but don’t quit!

So, there are your two life lessons. You’ll harvest what you sow after you sow it, and never quit!

Now, here’s an idea of a gift you can give that won’t cost you a cent. At the top left corner of this blog there is a link where you can register to receive my FREE report: 6 Letters to Launch Your Goals: CHANGE. You will also have the opportunity to receive a FREE bonus vacation. Go ahead. Register. Print a copy of the report, and give it to your dad along with the free vacation! He’ll love you for it, and you can both use the report!

Happy Father’s Day on June 15!

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• Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. Abdul Kalam (former president of India)
• There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. Josiah Gilbert Holland (novelist and poet)
• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. Vince Lombardi (football coach)
• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources. Marquis de Vauvenargues (French moralist, essayist, and writer)
• If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. Swami Vivekananda (Hindu monk from India)
• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. Orison Swett Marden (author of success and motivation books)
• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden (author of success and motivation books)
• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson (essayist, philosopher, and poet)
• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. Ben Stein (attorney, political figure, and entertainment personality)
• Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement. Michael Korda (novelist)

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I hope you’re familiar with our home page: Launch Your Goals. If you are, you’re probably familiar with our mission. We want to provide information, tools, inspiration, and on-going support to help you blast off to your dreams. We can do that better with some help from you!

I am about to start putting some simple survey questions in some of my blog posts. I really want to know what interests you, what kinds of goal setting you are doing, and perhaps what frustrations you experience the most in pursuing your goals.

I will be making the results of these short, informal surveys available here on the blog, so you’ll be able to see them for yourself.

So, please keep watching this blog! I think you’ll find this interesting and informative. Also, if you ever want to expand on your poll responses or just give us personal feedback, use the Comments section. The comments you submit are always moderated (to block spammers!), so if you have a comment for us that you don’t want published on the site, just mark it as private.

That’s it for now, I’m excited to move into this next phase!

Take the following surveys and let us know what you think!

• How active are you in setting and pursuing goals?

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Groups can, and should, use goals just as individuals do. Think about it. If it works for an individual to organize and structure his or her actions to achieve an important goal, the same principles will work for a group as well. The goal achievement process is very much the same.

In fact, using a structured, orderly approach to setting and achieving goals can be even more important for a group than for an individual. Why? Because it’s easier for an individual to focus on a goal than it is for a group of individuals. All the members of the group might be using the same words to describe the goal, but different members may well have slightly different interpretations of what those words mean.

So, clearly defining the goal ensures that all the group’s members understand exactly what the goal is. Then, when the action plan is developed and clearly defined, everyone will understand the plan too. In fact, the discussion that occurs in developing the goal and the plan will help refine the plan to be the best possible.

There’s a big side benefit for the group too. Remember how you feel when you are pursuing an important goal? You have a sense of purpose. You’re excited because you are focusing on something that is important to you. These same feelings will occur in the group that’s purposely working toward a goal. The group will have a feeling of unity and excitement because they are all working together to achieve the goal.

So, the next time your organization has a project of some sort, remember to use what you know about achieving goals to help the group achieve theirs. The results may surprise you!

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