"What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today I want to mention a great book by Zig Ziglar......See You At The Top.
In this book Zig Ziglar talks writes about how to improve your self-image, goals, attitude, your relationship with others, work and desire. The is also a chapter in the book about the power of your subconscious mind. Great Book.
Do you have a target or a goal? You must have a goal because it's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you have never been..
Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.
You'll never make it as a "wandering generality." you must be a "meaningful specific." What about you and your goals? Are they clearly in focus, or still pretty fuzzy?
A man or a woman without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. Each will drift and not drive. Each will end up on the beaches of despair, defeat and despondency. John Henry Fabre, the great French naturalist, conducted a most unusual experiment with some Processionary Caterpillars. These caterpillars blindly follow the one in front of them. Hence, the name. Fabre carefully arranged them in a circle around the rim of a flower pot, so that the lead caterpillar actually touched the last one, making a complete circle. In the center of the flower pot he put pine needles, which is food for the Processionary Caterpillar. The caterpillars started around this circular flower pot. around and around they went, hour after hour, day after day, night after night. For seven full days and seven full nights they went around the flower pot. Finally, the dropped dead of starvation and exhaustion. With and abundance of food less than six inches away, the literally starved to death, because they confused activity with accomplishment.
Many people make the same mistake and as a result reap only a small fraction of the harvest life has to offer. Despite the fact that untold wealth lies within reach, they acquire very little of it because they blindly, without question, follow the crowd in a circle to nowhere. They follow methods and procedures for no other reason than, "it's always been done this way."
From.... See You At The Top ....by Zig Ziglar
Karin Glannstam - Personal Success Coach
www.karinglannstam.com
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