goals

A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, its a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal. If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or set new goals and reenter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure. All I'm suggesting is that thinking of goals and systems as very different concepts has power. Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good everytime they apply their system. That's a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.

Having a goal and having a dream are different.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

Without a goal or an obstacle you're just running through a green cricket pitch for the rest of your life.

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream__ll of it from beginning to forevermore. You're on that journey right now; hence, you're living the dream. Enjoy it.

You can__ reach the destination which you don__ know. So what__ the use of hard work when you don__ know where it__ taking you?

Dharma _ the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 -

Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource.

The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.

Kama purusharth advocates desires fulfilled be,Albeit in awareness, without harming anybody;

Don__ fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.

If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It likes attention, not affection. Do not hug your crust. Do not rub its back or five its high. Don't fuss with refrigerators every step oft he way. Keep the water and butter cold, and remember what a wise baker once said: The goal is pie.

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.

Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us.

Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.