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Worksheets
Here are the worksheets to use when applying Michel Fortin’s G.O.A.L. method. You can simply use the tables below as a model to guide you. You can use them on a sheet of paper, in your journal, or on your computer.
But if you do prefer the printable version, you can download this book in digital PDF format by clicking here. Most browsers have the PDF plug-in already installed.
Conclusion
“I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.”
– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (Circa 1500)
Remember that it’s not your goals that really count but how you live your life according to what’s important to you. If you feel you can not incorporate this system with your current job or other responsibilities, you should first try it out.
The G.O.A.L. Method
“I practiced the art of getting more things done rather than getting the really important things done well.”
– Alec MacKenzie
“We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.”
– Jim Rohn
Your Values
“The most important things in life aren’t things.”
– Francis the Talking Mule
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want to they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, to have what you want.”
– Margaret Young
Your True Priorities
“Unless you live consistent with your deepest values, you’ll achieve but still lack the ultimate fulfillment you truly deserve.”
– Anthony Robbins
“The secret to success and happiness is to translate your values into everyday life.”
– Hyrum Smith
Your Life’s Foundation
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where there should be. Now, put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“When you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
– Jim Rohn
Be True to Yourself
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.”
– Richard Bach
“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst then be false to any man.”
– William Shakespeare
