The personal cost of losing sight of your mission is less obvious but far more deadly. You feel as though you've spent your time stuck in the mud on the side of the road. Even if you're clean at the start, you can't help being spattered by the mud everyone else is flinging around. That's why you need to be secure in your personal mission statement and live by it daily. Every great successful person in life was an obsessive goal setter.
Leaders always set goals.
However, one of the great flaws of the American educational system is that few of us get formal training in goal setting. The next challenge of goal setting is that few people know how to set attainable goals. Just because you put a deadline on your dream doesn't necessarily make it a goal. Therefore, they are not goals. Always remember to make your goals attainable in a reasonable amount of time.