Episode #22 - "Goal Setting: 13 SECRETS Of World Class Achievers" By Vic Johnson

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Today is June 13, 2021 and This is Episode 22, and Today, we will be reviewing the Audible Book, “Goal Setting: 13 Secrets Of World Class Achievers” By Vic Johnson. This audible book will teach You how the World Class Achievers achieved their goals and became tremendously successful.

Secret # 1: Big Dreamers Are Big Doers: Dream big dreams. Only big dreams have the power to move Men’s Souls. Your Self-Image has a direct effect on your results in Life. People who have no goals, are doomed to work for People who do. You must possess a definitive of purpose in order to win in Life. Our only limitations are those we put in our minds. Your physical actions are simply the outward manifestations of Your Inner thoughts. What You see in Yourself, is what You get out of Yourself. What You see in Your Mind is what You ultimately expect. What You expect is what You ultimately get. Average People are average because they have average thoughts. Exceptional People are exceptional because they think exceptional thoughts. Life will give You whatever You ask for.

Secret #2: Understanding The Beginning Of All Achievement: Desire is the starting point of all achievement. Desire says I want to. I can. I will. I see opportunity. Desire is so powerful that people will risk their life, freedom, fortune, and everything else in order to satisfy it. Between where You are and where You want to be, You will find the emotional state of desire. You will begin to see what You ask for, once You become, success conscious. In order to achieve Your goal, You must see Yourself already achieving it. The more You stoke Your desire, the more it will grow to be consuming, obsessive, pulsating, and burning.

Secret #3: What You See Is What You Get: What You see in your Mind’s Eye is what You get. As within, so without. Your outer world is simply a reflection of Your inner world. What You see in the world around You, will be consistent over time with the world inside You. Whatever You dwell upon grows in Your reality. Whatever You imagine in Your Mind is a preview of what will be brought about. The only limitations We have are the ones We setup in our own Minds. Be careful who You let rent space in Your head. Be aware of Your self-talk. Self-talk gives our subconscious mind specific directions, and tells it what to work on. Start thinking new positive thoughts, and they will eliminate the negative thoughts. You are today where Your thoughts have brought You, and You will be tomorrow where Your thoughts take You.

Secret #4: Can You Believe It: Man is what He believes. The size of Your success is determined by the size of Your belief.  Belief is what we accept as true or real. Life is of our own imagination that can either be a miracle or a living nightmare. What You attract in Life is in harmony with Your dominant thoughts. Are You the Captain or the Captive of Your thoughts? We always act in accordance to what We imagine to be true about ourselves, and our environment. Belief always precedes action.

Secret #5: Stand On The Shoulder Of Giants: World Class Achievers never waste valuable time reinventing the wheel. If the shortest distance between any two paths is a straight line. Then take the straightest line that You can and find Yourself a Mentor. A Mentor is the shortest root to success. Find someone who’s doing what you want to do (or has the results you want to achieve).  Study and determine what they did to achieve their result. Then simply engage in the same activities that brought them success and you’ll be on a collision course with your goals. A Mentor is someone who can teach you how to become as successful as they are.  

Secret #6: Have A Laser Focus Approach To Managing Your Time: Champions know how to concentrate their energy and efforts on what they want, and blocking anything or anyone who threatens to take away that focus.  We must have a desire for our goal that is consuming, obsessive, pulsating and burning. If You ever having a hard time staying focused, the first place to look, is at the goal. Life gets in the way of everybody, but the more successful have a way of keeping their focus in spite of life. In the book As A Man Thinketh By James Allen, He writes "Having conceived of his purpose, a person should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor left."

Secret #7: Act Now And Keep Acting: Faith without works is dead. World Class Achievers know that if You don’t take action on a dream or a goal, it will eventually die. Taking action now is a habit that can be learned. The masses make decisions slowly and then change them quickly, while the super-successful make decisions quickly, and change them slowly, if at all. World-Class Goal Achievers don’t wait until they have all the information before they decide to do something.  They know it’s only important to have enough information to make a decision.  Since World Class Achievers fully embrace failure, they don’t let fear stop them from taking action on their decision. Getting into action also increases the likelihood of maintaining action. It’s harder to get into action, than it is to stay in action. Which is supported scientifically by Newton’s Law of Motion:  A body at rest tends to remain at rest, and a body in motion tends to remain in motion.  It is the continuing motion that creates momentum, which is fondly called, the “Big Mo.

Secret #8: Champions Manage Fear And Doubt: We are born with only two fears. The fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. All other fears are learned. Doubt is the first cousin of fear and precedes it. True courage is not the absence of fear, it’s the mastery of fear. World-Class Goal Achievers have just as many fears as those who live miserable, unfulfilled lives because of fear. They have just learned to master their fears, instead of allowing their fears to master them. Faith and fear are totally opposite views of the future.  And because they are, they cannot co-exist. There are two massive thought forces competing for control of the mind: fear and faith. You can cancel out fear with faith. For there is no force in this world more powerful than faith. Always hold that thought of faith’s greater power until you believe it, for it can be the difference between success and failure.

Secret #9: FIDO Is More Than A Dog’s Name: The acronym FIDO, F.I.D.O. stands for “Forget it – Drive On”. To move past a negative circumstance, repeat to Yourself, “Forget it –Drive On” when any kind of disaster or distraction takes place. Persistence is the one-character trait that You must have in order to be successful in any endeavor. Persistence is the one dominant trait in every single World-Class Goal Achiever that any ordinary person can use to become extraordinary or extra-ordinary. It is the total focus on an object of desire, and as long as the desire for it is consuming, obsessive, pulsating and burning, a person will continue to do whatever it takes to satisfy their desire for the object through the action of persistency. World-Class Goal Achievers never see failure as the end of the road. It’s simply another step in the progress toward their goal. If you're not failing enough, you're not trying hard enough.

Secret #10: I Will Do Today What Others Will Not Do, So I Can Do Tomorrow What Others Cannot Do: World-Class Goal Achievers simply do the things that others will not do. The common denominator of success—the secret of success of every person who has ever been successful— lies in the fact that “THEY FORMED THE HABIT OF DOING THINGS THAT FAILURES DON’T LIKE TO DO. Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out. Give me a list of your daily habits and activities, and I can fairly accurately determine your success without any other information. The only reason we admire greatness is because consciously or unconsciously, we recognize that it’s achieved by ordinary people who gave a little extra by becoming extra-ordinary in their efforts to achieve their goals. If You want the success that others have, You have to be willing to do what they did, in order to achieve it.

Secret #11: Experience The Power Of The Master Mind: World-Class Goal Achievers understand and employ the power of the Master Mind. Author Napoleon Hill the Creator of The Master Mind Concept teaches "No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind. Simply put, a Master Mind is anytime two or more people come together with a common purpose, and the intent to benefit from the resulting synergy. The beauty of Master Mind Groups is that participants raise the bar by challenging each other to create and implement goals, brainstorm ideas, and support each other. Master Mind participants act as catalysts for growth, devil’s advocates and supportive colleagues.  It is the ultimate accountability tool. All World-Class Goal Achievers associate with like-minded people.

Secret #12: The Real Secret is…: The real secret of World-Class Goal Achievers is ---- there is no secret. All World-Class Goal Achievers know that there are no secrets, there are only PRINCIPLES. The bottom line is that our Universe (and everything in it) is governed by a set of Laws (also known as Principles).  If your life is in harmony with those principles then, by design, you are an open receptacle for all of the abundance of the Universe. World-Class Goal Achievers respect principles and they live their lives by them. Action Steps: Take the most negative circumstance that exists in your life today and apply the law of cause and effect to determine what the cause of the circumstance was. Then create a plan that will address and change the cause.  

Secret #13: World-Class Goal Achievers Seek Out Mentors and Coaches:  World-Class Goal Achievers have always known that secret: if you want to maximize your potential in anything, hire a Coach. Coaching is to performance what leadership is to an organization. Mentors are another “must have” by all World-Class Goal Achievers. Technology today has made it possible to have person-to-person mentoring relationships all over the world by tele-coaching, email, zoom and webinars. There is no excuse not to have Coaches and Mentors on Your Success Team.

Closing Thoughts: On scale of 1 to 5, I would give this audible book, a solid 5, for providing 13 Secrets Of World Class Achievers that can literally change a Person’s Life forever.

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