Goal Setting and Achievement Exercise

From now on, whenever you bring on a new person,

put them through this exercise.

If they will not go through this exercise, do not waste a minute of your time with

them because they will never be successful if they won't follow your guidance.

Here's the exercise. Take a clean sheet of paper

and write down goals

and today's date, and then write down ten goals

that you would like to accomplish

in the next twelve months and write them in the present tense.

I earn, I achieve, I weigh, I drive such and such a

car, I own. And then you take this list of ten

and you say, "If I had a

magic wand and I could wave this magic wand and I could have

any one goal on my list within twenty-four hours, which

one goal would have the greatest positive impact on my life?" And

usually, this will jump out at you.

Put a circle around that goal,

and that goal you transfer to a clean sheet of paper,

and then you follow the seven

steps. Write it down, set a deadline, make a list of everything you have to

do to accomplish it, organize the list into a checklist,

take action, and then do

something every day. If you'll just do this,

nothing can stop you but yourself.