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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of planning and execution in achieving goals.
Brian Tracy highlights the significance of having a clear plan when pursuing objectives. By indicating that one should decide in advance how to transition from their current state to their desired state, the quote suggests that success requires foresight, strategy, and disciplined implementation of the planned actions. It serves as a reminder that merely having a goal is not enough; effective planning and diligent effort are essential to transform aspirations into reality.
In practice
In a motivational workshop for students to emphasize the importance of goal-setting.
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.
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.
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.
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