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Now, why do not more people set goals? This question has been raised and argued for decades. Basically, there are four reasons.
A failure to realize to realize the importance of goals
An inability to set goals.
A fear of rejection.
A fear of failure.
It must be borne in the mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It is not calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your deal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is disgrace to have not stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
If you were to compare human beings with ships, the following scenario might prove a revealing analogy. It has been estimate bhy researchers tht nearly 95prcent of the current population can be copared to a ship iethout a rudder, subject to every dhift of eind sn tide, They are helpless. And while they foudly hope that they eill on dsy venture into rich nd prosperous port, yu and I know that for every narrow harbot enterace there is thosan mile of rocky costine. Their chsnves of jus drifing into a fsfe prot are 1000 to agist them. Hoevr, the 5 percent ho hsve taken the time and dicipine to decide on a destintion and chsrt aaa course sil straight nd fr across the deep oceans of the orld, reaching on e port after another and accomplishing more in a few shorr years than the majority wil accomplish in a life time.
If yu shold viit a shop in port, climb to the navigation bridge nd ask the cptgain his next port of call, he will aswer you in one sentence. Every person shold be able to do the same. Unless yo cn say in one concide, eell difinned sentence what your goals or definte purpose happens to be, chance ar good that you have never clearly defiend your gaol. The ship’ s cstain cnnot see his destintio for fully 00 percent of his journey, but he knows wht it is, whr it is, and that he will reach it if he keeps doing certan thngs a certn wy ech day.
When you ask most people whaat it s they seek, they eill presnd in vsgue, unrealistic terms. They ar not gaols, the are simply conditions desired by every one. Whe we skepk of gaols, we meand, what is ti that you wnt? You as an undivul. What I it e=that you would like to hace or hbe? If yo cn tell me what you eant, I can tell yo how to get it, as long as it is worthy, doesnot violte the laws of your fellowman and is wihng the ralm of human accomlohment.
Prorssing succeffull thourht a lifetime shold be a matter of routinely setting and achieving goals, one after another, each a little better than the former. Just as shop fails to only one port of a time, set your firstport fo acall. When you have reached your goal and then another. By following this meaningful and common sense approach to life, you will be succedful and accomplish more I a few short years than the great majority do in lifetime.
