chapter 3 Goals and success

Think for a moment about people you have heard of who have achieved great things.

Regardless of whether they are inventors, athletes, activists, musicians, or founders of businesses or charity projects, they all have one thing in common: they had a big goal and they performed a series of actions to reach it.

What is your attitude to goals?

The thought of setting goals creates different feelings for different people, as do our interpretations of success. We are now going to look at your attitude to goal-setting and your interpretation of success and then create a common foundation for both that we can use throughout the book.

Creating goals

The first step to great success is creating great goals.

Now, having a ...

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