Saturday, February 23, 2013

Goals

The word "goal" is a weighty word isn't it?

Losing weight
Financial
Getting married
Having children
Spiritual

All areas for using that word...GOAL

"The responsibility for implementing it, though, is all yours.  I cannot do it for you, and you cannot hire anyone else to do it for you.  It is completely up to you."   Tommy Newberry.

OR---my favorite quote from Tommy's book, "Success is not an Accident."....
"If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do---and don't do it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson---" Let him learn a prudence of a higher strain.  Let him learn that every thing in nature, even motes and feathers , go by law and not by luck, and that what he sows he reaps."

I want to know where I am going.  I do not want to be a victim or to just drift through life.  Therefore, I will write down my goals, and work to implement them.

I found it interesting as we were watching Escape from Alcatraz last evening.  Yep, I watched that show...not Jane Austen that is for sure.  It was intriguing.  Having been there to tour the grounds this past summer, it had a different perspective for us.  We were there.  We saw the cells.  We saw the bars.  It was a dark place.  A dismal, cold, eschew kind of place.
Clint Eastwood had a goal...getting out.
So, he made a plan and worked it.  He whittled his way through the plaster, day after day, with seemingly great odds against him.  The guards, the inmates, light, darkness.  But he kept on going for days and months and years.  He kept his goal in sight...getting out...and working his plan, he did it.

And so it is with us.  The goal is right there.  Reachable.  In front of us.  We just need to work at it...day by day, week after week, year after year, until finally we are reaping what we have sown.


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