People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Interpretation
Setting clear and written goals significantly enhances productivity and achievement.
This quote by Brian Tracy emphasizes the importance of having clearly defined and documented goals. It suggests that individuals who take the time to articulate their objectives are more likely to achieve significant accomplishments in less time compared to those who operate without such clarity and focus. The underlying premise is that goal-setting serves as a powerful motivational tool, guiding actions and decision-making toward desired outcomes.
In practice
In a motivational speech at a corporate meeting, one might say, 'As Brian Tracy reminds us, people with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter time.'
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.
I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.
If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.
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