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Drop Your Goals
Drop Your Goals (And Manage Your Life) by Michel Fortin is a book written over a decade ago as the author was going through some tough times.
The result is a powerful look at how to stop setting goals and to start looking at your priorities and values instead — called “guides” rather than “goals.”
It’s a bit spiritual and metaphysical in nature, so please read with an open mind.
I highly recommend that your read this book, which is brought to you free, and start using the G.O.A.L. outlined in the book, with templates at th end.
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
Natural Laws
“There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.”
– Ralph Waldo Trine
“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”
– Miguel de Cervantes
Quality of Life
“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”
– James Allen (1864-1912)
This paradigm shift in time management has led me to the understanding that goals by themselves are simply no good. If you ask me, they’re all a bunch of caca. The concept of goal achievement today is so clouded in misconception and uses up so much misguided energy that it literally takes people away from their true success.
Top-of-Mind Awareness
Before we begin, you must understand the concept that underlies this book. In today's society, I believe we have experienced two major shifts that have almost completely revolutionized the entire business landscape.
The first and most important one is competition.
Efficient Action
You must use your thought as directed in previous chapters and begin to do what you can do where you are, and you must do all that you can do where you are.
You can advance only by being larger than your present place, and no one is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place.
Acting in The Certain Way
Thought is the creative power or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act. Thinking in a certain way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific thinkers meet shipwreck — the failure to connect thought with personal action.
We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be possible, in which a person can create directly from formless substance without nature’s processes or the work of human hands. A person must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.
