Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of planning and execution in achieving goals.
Brian Tracy highlights the significance of having a clear plan when pursuing objectives. By indicating that one should decide in advance how to transition from their current state to their desired state, the quote suggests that success requires foresight, strategy, and disciplined implementation of the planned actions. It serves as a reminder that merely having a goal is not enough; effective planning and diligent effort are essential to transform aspirations into reality.
In practice
In a motivational workshop for students to emphasize the importance of goal-setting.
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.
When my record company rejected 'Full Moon Fever', I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I'd never had anything rejected; I'd never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.
People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.
The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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