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Showing posts with label Goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goals. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Limitless

Most often our limitations are not from lack of ability but from goals which are not lofty enough. - Lyle


Thursday, March 28, 2013

Going

I don't know where I'm going but I know no one is going to stop me. - Ariel Tweto


Sometimes you just go full speed ahead.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Set Sail

Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox


The last few lines of her poem:


'Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.




Saturday, December 22, 2012

Beautiful Dreams

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

..... Never quash someones dreams - you may be dooming their future.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Start Today

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender. -  David Allen


You don't jump to your goals you journey to them.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Risky Roads

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. - Lewis Carroll


All roads don't lead to fine places.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Worthy Goal

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. - Chuck Palahniuk


Worthy Goal: Figure out how to inspire people to want their lives fixed.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Goal Lines

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. - Doug Larson

  Control your goals; not  vice versa.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Which Way Does The Wind Blow?

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Bertha Calloway


  Stay at the helm.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Tell Me About Your Future

You can't base your life on the past or present. You have to tell me about your future. - Chuck Palahniuk 

Goals can change, history can't.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Great Seamanship

Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea. - Unknown

Strive for greatness.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Chosen Destiny

Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate time-lines. - R. Stevens


Choose your own destiny.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Setting Goals

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin E. May


Don't fear setting goals - they can be altered.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Hearts and Minds

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. - Kahlil Gibran


If hiring, ask the applicants goals. If you are the applicant, make sure you know your goals.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Create It


Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. - Geri Weitzman

Nothing exists unless someone created it. That someone might as well be you.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Knowing the Future

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. - Denis Watley


Define your mission.



Sunday, August 21, 2011

What Do you Want to Be?

If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. You don't need to be in a rush to choose your life's work. What you need to do is discover what you like. You have to work on stuff you like if you want to be good at what you do. - Paul Graham


You need to practice the skills needed to get into the game you enjoy.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Goal Focusing

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford 


If you happen to glimpse an obstacle, view it not as a brick wall but as a speed bump and refocus on your goal.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Risky Business

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. - Pierre Corneille 


This is why your goal should be to make money, not just get money.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Tell Me About Your Future

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. - Chuck Palahniuk


Add that to your job interview repertoire.