BRIAN BOYLE: GOALS

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius

Continued:
After spending two months in a coma, 14 operations, 36 blood transfusions, 13 plasma treatments, I lost a total of 100 pounds and had to go to a rehabilitation center in Baltimore. I had to learn how to talk, eat, walk, shower, and live again. After that agonizing experience, I had to go to outpatient therapy in Waldorf, MD. After a few months in a wheelchair, I took baby steps to walk on my own. It was a miracle that I could walk again, but I wanted to prove the doctors wrong and not only walk, but run. After I accomplished that, I wanted to get back in the pool again. After a few lung tests, I was able to go in the pool a little bit each week. Before the accident I had three goals: to go to college, swim on the team, and compete in an iron-man triathlon one day.

When, for some inexplicable reason your goals - as you planned them - aren't reachable, you've got to makes changes. Boyle had three goals, now shattered like Humpty Dumpty. But, unlike, Humpty

GOAL SETTING

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into visible." - Anthony Robbins

 

Goal Setting

Usually in the beginning of a new year, lots of people make New Year resolutions. Interestingly, a study was carried out and it revealed that:

25 percent of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions after one week.
60 percent of people abandon them within six months. (The average person makes the same New Year’s resolution ten separate times without success.)
Even after a heart attack, only 14 percent of patients make any lasting changes around eating or exercise.
This is how the story goes with resolutions. The alternative is Goal Setting. I have long understood that Goals setting is an amazing principle that facilitates growth on steady and consistent basis in life.

One wise man gave an illustration and said “Say you were to travel from wherever you are to Calgary. That’s the goal and you had never been there before. As you start in the direction (You'd not even know what direction to start, without first knowing where you are then, figuring where you want to go) and begin driving, it won’t be long before you come to a fork in the road (Just like life right, you start going in this direction and opportunities arise and you have to decide) you ether take the Hope/Princeton turn off or continue on the #1. Well with out a map you will end up guessing instead of looking at the map and saying, this is the route I want to take. That’s not too bad, because you will still get there by going the Hope/Princeton it will just take to hours, longer but when you get to Kamloops and you keep going straight instead of

THE GIFT OF A DREAM (28): WRITE YOURSELF A CHEQUE

"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?" - Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

Most people have dreams, and it could be anything. But whatever it is, that dream is an important part of you; and you should go for it. The first step is, knowing what you want - that thing you envision yourself doing with your life. That passion, that makes you jump out of your skin with excitement and makes you feel whole when you're doing it. That monstrous desire of your heart that pulls you back up every time you fall. That's what I'm talking about here.