Success & Goal Setting - How To Design Your Life
Channel: Lloyd Dobson
Date: 2011-02-13

http://bit.ly/LloydDobsonSecrets FREE Ebook with 10-Tips I do every day to drive traffic to me plus a 5-Day Boot Camp Learn How To Drive Traffic To Your Business or Website.   The meaning of Success comes in many forms, and many definitions. It depends on what you are searching for in life, and searching for in business. Athletes may have one definition of Success, and a stay at home mom may have another. A musician may see Success as a number one hit, and a Doctor may see Success as a surgery that went well. It really depends on the perspective of life you have. Perspectives on Success are as numerous as the stars.

Success is both a journey and a destination. It is both a steady measured process toward a goal and the achievement of a goal. Success . . . an accomplishment great and small and it is an understanding of the potential and power of an entire human life. Success is an awareness of value and it's cultivation of value through discipline. It can be tangible or intangible. Success is a process of turning away from something in order to turn towards something else. From no exercise to exercise. From candy to fruit. From not investing to investing.

Success is responding to an invitation. An invitation to change. To grow! To develop! To become! To move up to a better vantage point; but most of all, success is making your life what you want it to be. Considering all the possibilities. Considering all of the examples. Here is the question: "What do you want for your life?" This is the big question. Remember success is not a set of standards from our culture; but rather a collection of personal values clearly defined and ultimately achieved. Success is your better life for you. The design you give it, the dreams you have. Making your life what you want it to be for you, that is success!

Okay with that overview . . . Of all the things that changed my life for the better, it was learning how to set goals. Let me first of all say that we are effected in my opinion by 5 factors:

1) Our Environment
2) Our Events
3) Our Knowledge
4) Our Results

5) And fifth and often overlooked and that effects our lives, is our view of the future. Our DREAMS! I won't go into those other influences here; but let me concentrate a little on the fifth in this article. Of all these five influences, make sure your dreams are the greatest influence on your daily decisions and activities. To put it another way, make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future. For your dreams to greatly influence you, for the future to pull you, your future must be well planned. 

There are two ways to look at the future: One is by apprehension and the second is with anticipation. Guess how many people look at the future with apprehension? Why? They do not have it well designed. And without thinking about it, they probably have bought somebody's view of how to live. You will face the future with anticipation when you have planned and this allows you to get excited about it. This is when your future will capture your imagination. It will exert an enormous influence on you. And to design your future, you must have goals.

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