FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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.


Goals enable you to control the direction of change in your life.

The more you complain, criticize, accuse and blame other people the more you trigger feelings of bitterness, anger and hatred.

Positive emotions empower whiles negative emotions disempower.

Negative emotions of hurt, blame and anger make you weak, bitter, hostile and irritable.

Positive emotions of happiness, excitement, love and enthusiasm make you feel more powerful and confident.


You are responsible for the consequences of your actions and your behaviors. You are where you are and what you are today because of the choices and decisions you made.

By underestimating yourself, you set either no goals or low goals that are far below what you are truly capable of accomplishing.


The very core of your personality is your values. Your values are what make you who you are. If you have good values, you will belief yourself to be good and expect good things to come your way.


Your goals must be congruent with your values, and your values must be congruent with your goals. The unexamined life is not worth living. By Socrates.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from; all that really matters is where you are going. You become what you think about most of the time.


Truly great men and women always live their lives consistent with their highest values, even when no one is looking. Mediocre men and women, on their hand, are always cutting corners and compromising their integrity, especially when no one is watching.


Realize what you really want. It automatically stops you from chasing after just anything.

You must be able to recognize at a point in your life whether the direction you are going has limited future or unlimited future.


See yourself as a bundle of resources capable of doing many different things.

Never allow yourself to get locked into a particular course of action; especially if you are not happy with the way your career is going.



Goal setting enables you to use vastly more of your thinking powers than most people.

As you set your goals and begin moving toward them, it is essential that you establish a series of benchmarks or measures that you can use to evaluate your progress, day-by-day and hour-by-hour.


A goal or a decision without a deadline is merely a discussion

What gets measured gets done. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

Between you and anything you want to accomplish there is constraint, or limiting factor, that determines how fast you get to where you want to go.

80 percent of the constraints come from within and only 20 percent comes from outside.


Look deep within yourself and identify the key constraints in your personality, temperament, skills, abilities, habits, education, or experience that might be holding you back from achieving your goals.


The two major obstacles to success and achievement are fear and doubt.

The fear of failure, poverty, loss, embarrassment and rejection.

Doubt of our own abilities.


The primary antidotes to doubt and fear are courage and confidence.

In our economic system, your income will be determined by three factors: first, what you do; second, how well you do it; and third, the difficulty of replacing you.


To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.


In management there are key result areas that can determine your success or failure at your job. These are: planning, organizing, staffing, delegating, supervising, measuring and reporting.


The very best way to develop your skills is in the direction of your natural talents and interests.


Your ability to form the right relationships with the right people at every stage of your life and career will be the critical determinant of your success and achievement.

The more people you know and who know you in a positive way, the more successful you will be at anything you attempt.


A team player is one who always comes prepared to every meeting and constructively contributes to meeting proceedings.


It’s always easier to get into something than it is to get out.

Planning is a list of every activity that you will have to engage in from the beginning to the end, to accomplish a specific goal or objective.


Without a goal or plan guiding you, you only react to events as they occurred in your day-to-day activities.

A great life, like a great ship should never be held by a single hope or a single rope.

Spend more time doing more of those tasks that can have the greatest possible consequences on your life and work.


Your goals must be written and described in the positive, present and personal tenses.


Successful people are those who visualize the kind of success they want to enjoy in advance. Your self-image is made up of the mental pictures that you feed your mind prior to any event.


You must be ready and flexible for a change at any time in order to match up with the timings.


Be willing to deal with the world as it is, rather than the way you wish it were or the way that it might have been in the past.

As a good leader is always willing to be open minded, flexible, calm, confident and curious if you want to be able to recognize new opportunities and possibilities as they open up around you.


Always do more than you are paid for. Do more than others expect from you. Go the extra mile. Get busy, get going, take action, don’t waste time and never looked back.


Ignorance causes us to fear change, to fear the unknown, and to avoid trying anything new or different.


The very best qualities of strength, courage, character, and persistence are brought out in you when you face your greatest challenges and you respond to them positively and constructively.

Persistence is the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up. Success is failure turned inside out.