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How To Be GREAT - Goals

What does being great mean. Well I guess that it means many different things to many different people but for me the concept of being great is the commitment to do everything that you do as well as you can. Do them as if you were great. Just remember that you become great by doing all things great, not just some great things.

The first step on your journey to greatness is to have

Great Goals

If you want to be great your goal should be to be great.

What is a goal? A goal is a target that you aim for. Something that you strive to achieve. You've got to have something to go for so that you know where to go and why you are going there. If you don't know where you want to go you will most likely end up someplace that you don't want to be.

Goals define the intent of your actions. They say this I am going to do and this is why I am going to do it.

Goals create a picture of the present that you want to experience in the future. By setting goals we can take action to ensure that your future today's are more the way that you want them to be than the today you are experiencing now.

It has often been said that if you fail to plan then you plan to fail. I don't believe that. I have never met anyone who wants to fail but I have met many people who are not satisfied with the results that they have achieved. If you fail to plan then it means that you have left your life at the mercy of chance and you must then just put up with what ever you get.

Too many people set sail on the sea of opportunity and hope that the winds of chance will blow them to their dream destination. Tragically they all too often find that their "dream destination" is really a nightmare.

Most people are where they are simply because they did not consciously choose to be somewhere else. To change you have to consciously choose what you want to change. You have to choose what you want instead. You have to work out what you have to do to get what you want and then you have to do it.

So, take charge of your future by taking control of your present and guiding your actions into the future of your choice.

With goal setting your Primary goal should always be "To become" and your secondary goal should be "to get" Too often we do this the wrong way around and we focussing on getting and hope that by getting what we want our lives will change. The greatness of your life is not measured by how much you got but by who you were, by who you became in the process of getting.

Who you are makes a difference, but how you are who you are makes all the difference. It is your behaviour, not your title, that determines your results in life. It is your behaviour not your position or possessions the determines the reputation that you have. The way you do what you do is more important than what you do and the way you do what you do depends on how you are who you are.

When you set a goal you must determine the behaviour that would earn the goal, so ask yourself what would I have to do and how would I have to behave while doing it in order to earn, and deserve, this goal.

So from today take a good look at all the things that you do and ask yourself

"How can I show my greatness in doing this job?"

"How should I do it so that my greatness shines through?"

"How would someone who was great do this?"

"What would it look like if it was done great?"

Once you have the picture clear in your mind of what a great result would be than you can evaluate your own results and determine if your results measure up to your picture of greatness.

When you can identify the behaviour then you can duplicate the behaviour. That's the wonderful thing about success, it is a process. All you have to do is identify the process and then duplicate it.

So from today make it your goal to be great. Choose to be great at what ever you do.

You have to be the person who deserves your dream.

To live your best life be true to the YOU, that you want to be.

Live with passion. Change your life from making a living to making a difference.

Live up to the reputation that you want to have.