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With all the intensity, no wonder you are so successful. I just do not have your drive, I guess I am not motivated. I guess I am lazy. My usual response is, you are not lazy. You just have impotent goals.
Frequency I get a confused look to this response, at which point I explain that my level of excitement and drives come from my goals. Every morning when I wake up, even if I feel physically exhausted from a lack of sleep, I will still find the drive I need because my goals are so exciting to me. They get me up early, keep me up late and inspire me to marshal my resources and use everything I can possibly find within the sphere of my influence to bring them to fruition. The same energy and sense of mission is available to you now, but it will never be awakened by weak goals. The first step is to develop bigger, more inspiring, more challenging goals.
My problem is that I really do not have any goals. This belief demonstrates their lack of understanding of how goals really work. The human mind is always pursing something, if nothing more than the ability to reduce or eliminate pain or avoid anything that could lead to it. Our brain also love to guide us in pursuing anything that can lead to the creation of pleasure. We all have goals. The problem, as I have stressed in virtually every chapter so far, is that we are unconscious in our use of these resources.
Most people’s goals are to pay their lousy bills, to get by, to survive, and to make it through the day, in short, they are caught up in the trap of making a living rather than designing a life. Do you think these goals will give you the power to trap the vast reserve of power within you? Hardly, you and I must remember that our goals affect us, whatever they are. If we do not consciously plant the seeds we want in the gardens of our ends, we will end up with weeds. Weeds are automatic, you do not have to work to get them. If we want to discover the unlimited possibilities within us, we must find a goal big enough and grand enough to challenge us to push beyond our limits land discover our true potential. Remember that your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential. Remember that your current conditions of not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing. We all must discover or create a magnificent fascination.
