Goals

I don't know about you, but when I was a youth I had been advised at least a couple of times, if not more, to make a list of 100 goals.

100 Goals.

That's a lot! "Just write 'em down" they'd say. With a story of someone who did, and then put his goal sheet away only to find it years later and see that many of his goals had been realized without him even recognizing that they were. I thought about it and have felt from time to time that I probably should... but never did. 
       Years later (as in a few years ago) I was sitting at a BYU Education Week class taught by Randal Wright (one of my favorites!) on "Achieving Your Life's Mission". This class was so excellent that I was repeating it for the second time! Midway through the class he talks about setting goals. Goooals shmoooals! I don't like goals (commitment!). While I appreciated this subject the first time, I didn't do it! Here the second go round, I was thinkin, "Right. Shmoals." So I sat back, ready to NOT take too many notes as he continued to encourage us on setting goals. He even said, making it extremely easy, "Just jot some down right now. Listen to the Spirit. You might even get some ideas now." 
"Alright," I thought begrudgingly, Whatever Brother Wright. If something comes to mind, I'll just casually write it down on this paper here, and not worry too much more about it. So I start carelessly writing a few things here and there as they come to me. -Finish a Bachelors Degree... Visit England... and then something amazing happened! Ideas of goals that I never would have thought of came into my head. Neat goals! Cool goals! Goals that made me think "Wow! That would be awesome!" Now I began to write them more meaningfully, and as I wrote them down, I knew, in my heart, that these things would happen! I was taken aback! Breathless to believe the things that I could do and achieve! Things I never would have imagined!!

       I have loved goals ever since! I love to peruse over all of the little adventures and achievements that I so anticipate accomplishing! I'm excited, and look forward to the things that I will get to do, and plan on doing! Now I GET to make goals and I feel, when I write them down, a bond to them! Like they are attached to me and what I will do in my life! And I'm OKAY with it; with these commitments because I WANT them to happen!

Interestingly enough since I have written some goals down on my list of 100, I have seen opportunities arise for me to accomplish them! Sometimes I feel as if these opportunities are almost handed to me! It is such an amazing thing to see and feel the support of my Heavenly Father as I have written my goals down!
      This morning for our home-school devotional we talked about goals. I started my list of 100 goals in Randal Wright's class that day and have added to it over the last couple of years. I'm up to 60. Phheww! I still have 40 more I can add! :) In the mean time here are some quotes about goals that I really liked!

"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor." 

Brian Tracy

Goals in writting are dreams with deadlines. 

Brian Tracy

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives.Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. 

Jim Rohn

"Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.' 

Jim Rohn

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast. 

Jim Rohn

"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures." 

Charles C. Noble

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."  Zig Ziglar

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." Epictetus

"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end." Claude M. Bristol

If you go to work on your goals,your goals will go to work on you.If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.Whatever good things we build end up building us. 

Jim Rohn

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings." Brian Tracy

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." Helen Keller

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." H. L. Hungt

"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets." Nido Qubein

We all have two choices;We can make a living or we can design a life.
Jim Rohn

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson

"An average person with average talent,ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society,if that person has clear,focused goals." Brian Tracy

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." Anonymous

"By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be."Mark Victor Hansen

"Begin with the end in mind." Stephen Covey

"When the promise is clear, the price gets easy." Jim Rohn

"Goals that are not written down are just wishes."Anonymous

"You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals." Anonymous

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." Alexander Graham Bell

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else."
Lewis Carroll

"Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals." Spencer W. Kimball

"No one knows what he can do until he tries." Publilius Syrus

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at." Henry David Thoreau

"One ship drives east, and another west

With the self-same winds that blow: ?Tis the set of the sails

And not the gales,

Which decides the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,

As they voyage along through life;

?Tis the will of the soul

That decides its goal,

And not the calm or the strife."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Commiting your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!"  Brian Tracy

"Everything At Once" Lenka