If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
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
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.
As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.
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