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LEADERSHIP QUOTE OF THE DAY (23 May 2012): You gain STRENGTH| COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Running Man

Right from the start, I could sense that this could be a defining moment in my life’s history, and subsequent thoughts and events proved me right. I had set myself a goal, established what I needed to do to reach it, and had applied myself diligently enough to attain it. My mind raced ahead with thoughts of other dreams and aspirations – a gateway to a new world of limitless possibility had been opened and best of all, I had opened it!

OK, so I had completed a long run but why should this have implications for other areas of my life, and what was it that had enabled me to persevere through months of training to complete the race?

Well, the answer to both of those questions lies in what Jeremiah Josey, a successful life coach, believes is “one of the fundamental traits that differentiates the human species from all other forms of life. It is our ability to plan for and work towards goals that we have in our mind that are somewhere in the future.”
What I had stumbled upon was the power of goal-setting – something that successful entrepreneurs and businessmen alike have known about for years. As long ago as ancient Greece, the setting of goals was seen as a necessary ingredient for success. Seneca, the Greek philosopher, made the poignant observation that “our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”
And so it was for me – before coming to New Zealand, I had left my life to chance. I was the personification of the old analogy of the ship lost at sea: no map, no compass, no clue! However, running the Kepler Challenge and many other races since, has opened my eyes to the bountiful rewards that lie in wait for those who set themselves a goal, and who spend every waking hour in its hypnotising pursuit. Many dreams are achievable but first, they not only need to be imagined, they need to be believed.

By taking the time to examine where in life each of us wish to go, we can then start breaking things down and making conscious decisions as to what we need to do to get there. This goal-setting model can be used both for business and personal life, and can transform us from helpless reactionary beings into masters of our own destiny.

Carl Jung, the great Swiss psychiatrist, epitomised the goal-setting spirit when he said: “I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.” In order to realise future success on many levels, the biggest question that should be on all our lips is: “What will we choose to become?”

Hugo Goodson

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