to improve. With a clearer awareness of your goals you can make better choices. With better choices, you
will see better results.
Alignment: I’ll share one of my best “secrets of success” with you: Ensure your daily actions are aligned
with your deepest values. Let me put it another way: There can be no happiness if your commitments are
not congruent with your convictions. Isn’t that what integrity is all about, ensuring that your schedule reflects
your values and what you stand for? Setting clear goals that are aligned with your most important values is
a superb way to get to personal greatness.
Inspiration: Goals breathe life into your days. The very act of articulating your goals on a crisp white piece
of paper causes you to step into a whole new possibility for what your life can become. Setting your goals is
a statement that you refuse to be ordinary. Setting your goals is a bold play for your best life. Setting your
goals is an act of heroism because you are reaching for the potential that has been invested in you. As
Mark Twain noted: “If everyone was satisfied with themselves there would be no heroes.”
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Remember the
Boomerang Effect
Big idea: the very thing you most want to see more in your life is the very thing you need to give away.
Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others. Spread it
like wildfire. Give away what you most want. This will create a space in the minds and hearts of all those
around you to give more credit.
Give out what you most want to come back.
Want more understanding from others? Be more understanding and give that out.
Want more loyalty? Be the most loyal person you know. Watch what happens.
Want more love? Give more love.
I believe life wants you to win. Most people just get in their own way and sabotage their success.
They let their fears keep them from greatness. They let their limitations become their chains. They become
their own worst enemies. To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out
what you most want to see come back. It’s a gorgeous life you have in store for you. Just go out and get it.