Your Blueprint of Success-Make Specific Goals
How was the remaining 3 percent? What were their results? Would they be able to make better than their peers?
Yes, only 3 percent of the entire graduate group had written goals. That 3 percent was making a whopping ten times what those with no goals were earning.
The end results are apparent: goals, particularly written goals, constitute the difference in your overall degree of achievement. Among the business school graduates in the study, the short time they spent laying down well-defined, written goals made a spectacular difference in their income levels.
Laying down goals has nothing but positive impacts on your life. But if what you hope to accomplish in life is based on your expectations, rather than on working to arrive at established goals, you are setting yourself up for the possibility of letdown. Expectations have to do with how you believe other people should behave, and how the world should bend at your bidding. Your expectations may result in a great amount of grief, whereas established goals will result in a large amount of satisfaction and success.
The winning choice is clear: acquire your goals, drop your expectations. It is a mistake to expect that you will attain any goal because you deserve it or because there is something in your past that entitles you to it. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as “deserve.” You end up achieving in life because of preparation and diligence, not because you have “paid your dues”.
As you have now acquired the blueprint to success and have defined your goals to the most specific details, what’s next?
Your Goals and blueprint are the first step to success. Next is to take massive action to achieve success.
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