The late personal achievement legend and best-selling author Jim Rohn said, “Set a goal to become a millionaire not for the goal of being a millionaire but for what it requires of you to achieve it.”
As you set your goals for 2012, ask yourself, “Who do I have to become to achieve these goals?” I believe the answer to that question is your real reward with the goal only being the byproduct. In the past several years, as I trained for memory competitions, more than one person told me, “Don’t waste your time, you aren’t going to win.” But they didn’t see the same end result as I did. The final score wasn’t the biggest goal for me. The result, instead, was the person I became during my training leading up to the championship competitions.
As I set my goals for 2012, I’m reminded of Jim Rohn’s philosophy and ask myself, “Who do I have to become to achieve these goals?” The answer to that question excites me more than the goals!
Happy New Year to All!
Go for More This Week!
—Ron White
This is a very interesting saying that I came across just now. And it really makes me think deep about the meaning within, who have I became, what I have accomplished all these years and what had happened so far.
I believe that you will feel the same and think about your future, your past and your present after reading the saying from Ron White.
The majority of us set our goals to become a millionaire and to be financially free. There is nothing wrong in this; it is just that you have to always remember that the rewards that you get from chasing your goals are just by-products. What really matters is who you become along the way.
We often forget that it is who we are going to become in our journey of pursuing our dreams and our goals that are the real rewards. By going through the entire path, you will realize that you will eventually become a different person, regardless of whether you successfully accomplished your goals.
If your goal is to earn $100,000 last year and you accomplished it, you will become more confident and committed this year. You will definitely change, either positively or negatively.
If you failed to achieve your goal last year, do not give up and do not feel disappointed. Tell yourself to move on and you are going to make it this year. You have to tell yourself that although you did not accomplish what you want, but in the process of working on that goal, you have learned new things and become a better person compare to before.
As long as you learn something and never give up, you are not considered as a failure. Somehow you learned something and you changed, you move a little closer toward your goals and you now have more experience.
This is the most important reward that you get from taking action toward your dreams. You eventually change and become better.
What You Can Learn From Here
Think about last year, what have you accomplished and did you changed? Everything is constantly changing every day, the only thing that never changes is the theory claiming that everything is changing every day.
When you think back about last year and what you have done, do you feel proud or do you feel unsatisfied? Only you can answer this question.
If you have achieved your targets, you may feel great and satisfy. However, if you fail to accomplish what you have set, you may feel unsatisfied or disappointed and you might wish to turn back time. We all know that we cannot turn back the time, what we can do right now is to learn from our past. Learn from the previous years and decide now that we are not going to live another mediocre year this time.
Looking back on all the years can actually help you to better shape your life and plan for your future because you are creating pain that you do not wish to occur in your life. Basically, there are only 2 things that will motivate us, it is either the inspiration or the desperation.
So when you think about the pain, you are actually creating pain in your mind that you do not want to go through that kind of life anymore and you will put yourself in motivation to get away from those kinds of life. It is exactly the opposite for pleasure. When you think about becoming rich, living in luxury bungalow, driving sports car and etc, it is also another form of motivation that pull you toward your dreams.
You need to learn how to use both pain and pleasure to inspire and motivate you to achieve what you want in your life. This is why you must learn from your past. Now, this is a new year and it is a brand new beginning, so do not let another great year slip by. You can achieve a lot of what you want in just one year.
Whenever you feel unmotivated, just think about how you have lived your previous year and what have you accomplished so far. Do you want to make it better and improve your lifestyle? Do you want to bring your family overseas this year? Do you want to make $300,000 in this year? If you answer yes, then make sure you treat this year the best year ever. Work all the way out and put in 100% commitment to achieve all your dreams and your goals.
Thus, I wish you all the best in your journey to success and with Godspeed.
