Goal Setting Success - Three Good Questions

By: Rick Seymour
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:41:45
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First good question: What will you do to survive?

I’m talking about elemental, gut-level survival. I’m talking about my wife, Aldona, six years old in a refugee camp in Munich Germany. At night her parents send her out under the barbed wire with a bucket to the adjoining farm to steal milk from the cows so that they can survive. I’m NOT talking about whether you can pay the mortgage and the credit card bills this month. I am talking about you starving, your kids starving and you have no food, no friends, no money and no credit. Your neighbor has bread, but won’t give you any. What will you do? Remember your kids are starving. What will you do? You know stealing is wrong, but what will you do? Stealing violates your ethical standards. But your kids are starving, what will you do? Will you let your kids starve? My guess is, you will do WHATEVER IT TAKES. And isn’t that the essence of how we’re wired: We will do whatever it takes to survive!

Second good question:

What will you do to succeed? Most people would immediately say: “WHATEVER IT TAKES!” But, wouldn’t you agree that if that were true, we’d all be further along in our lives right now? I’m not talking about violating your ethical standards. Within the confines of what is right, ethical and legal have you done whatever it takes to succeed? Have you done everything you know you could do? Probably not.

That leads us to the third good question: “Why haven’t you done everything you could do to succeed?” Let me give you a hint.

For those of you that are gardeners, I would like you to think about what would happen if you were to plant your garden in the spring and then not check in until fall. Obviously, you would have a plot of weeds and you would never reap the harvest. You could pretend that the weeds aren’t there; you could do lots of positive affirmations about how bountiful your garden is; you could visualize lots of wonderful produce or you could even go out and curse the weeds. But you would still have only weeds. I have a news flash for you – we all have some weeds in our garden. Unless we are willing to acknowledge the weeds and do something about them, we will never see the bounty of what we would like to plant in our lives. The first key is to recognize the weeds in your garden. The second key is to get rid of them.

As you read anything on personal growth and development (including this article), please stay on ‘Channel 1’. Stay focused on you. I’m sure there will be many times that you will be thinking to yourself, “Boy I wish so-and-so would read this.” Well, they’re not reading it (yet). If you spend all your time fussing over who else should be getting this stuff, you will miss some important lessons for yourself. When you have finished reading, you can go and invest what you have learned in someone else’s life. But until then, stay on ‘Channel 1’!

There are some simple and effective ways that can help you identify and eliminate the “weeds in your garden of life.”

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