Living the Significant Life by Peter L. Hirsch & Robert Shemin

Author:Peter L. Hirsch & Robert Shemin [Hirsch, Peter L. & Shemin, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118175156
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2012-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

Write Down Your Goals

In a famous study of the Harvard class of 1953, the researchers discovered that only 10 percent of the graduates had established goals at all and that only 3 percent had written down their goals.

Twenty years later, the researchers again interviewed the same class members, who were now involved in careers and families. They quickly determined that the 3 percent who two decades earlier had written down their goals were now worth more in economic terms than the entire remaining 97 percent of the class combined! Obviously, economic success isn’t everything, but it certainly is a revealing and immediate way to measure the power of having written goals.

Until your goals are written down, they’re not really goals; they are dreams and wishes. And if wishes were fishes, it would be the rare angler who would catch the really big ones.

Without a magic lamp, without action that’s purposeful and by design, wishes rarely come true. We love fairy tales; most people do. They’re the lottery of literature. But we will not bet our lives and the well-being of our families on a trail of bread crumbs scattered in the forest.

Writing your goals down in black and white forces you to focus on them. Then you will commit to them. Furthermore, it’s important to share your goals with like-minded people—your champions.

Do you know what a champion is? In days of old, when knights were bold, an upper-class lady had a champion. He was a shining armor–clad character who defended her—life, honor, and all—against dastardly dragons, bad dukes, and any other negative assaults on her position or person. A champion is one who takes the field on behalf of another. Kings and queens all had champions, and you and I have them, too. Anyone who takes a stand for your greatness is your champion.

The way to live a life of accomplishment, fulfillment, and success is to have lots of champions, and the way to do that is to share your goals with committed, believing people and develop powerful partnerships with them. Be their champion. Championing others is a powerful way to catapult your own success.

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