Quotes About Goals

If your to-do list contains everything, then it's probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.

Don't focus on being busy; focus on being productive. Allow what matters most to drive your day.

Highly successful people know this. So every day they line up their priorities anew

To properly set goals for and track sales contracts closed, you need to know: 1. Number of units closed 2. Total volume closed 3. Gross income closed

Quiénes somos y adónde queremos ir determinan lo que hacemos y lo que conseguimos.

aquello que podrías hacer y dedicarte a hacer aquello que debes hacer. Consiste en reconocer que no todas las cosas importan igual y en encontrar aquello que más importa. Es una manera de vincular más estrechamente lo que uno hace con lo que uno desea. Se basa en darse cuenta de que obtener resultados extraordinarios viene determinado directamente

As Henry David Thoreau said, "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

The Focusing Question. Mark Twain agreed with Carnegie and described it this way: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.

Answers come in three categories: doable, stretch, and possibility.

hours spent checking off a to-do list and ending the day with a full trash can and a clean desk are not virtuous and have nothing to do with success.

Those who wrote down their goals were 39.5 percent more likely to accomplish them.

make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest.

Pursue a big life and you're pursuing the greatest life you can possibly live. To live great, you have to think big.

Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

Low goals don't require extraordinary actions so they rarely lead to extraordinary results.

Small plans at best yield small results, and big plans at worst beat small plans.

Every day, without realizing it, we engage in all manner of activities that diminish our willpower. Willpower is depleted when we make decisions to focus our attention, suppress our feelings and impulses, or modify our behavior in pursuit of goals.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

Do what matters most first each day when your willpower is strongest. Maximum strength willpower means maximum success.

Don't fight your willpower. Build your days around how it works and let it do its part to build your life. Willpower may not be on willcall, but when you use it first on what matters most, you can always count on it.

Insights change our desires; the new stories shift our goals, leading us to give up some ambitions and pursue others.

Optimists have a positive expectancy that helps them achieve their goals. Theirs is a can-do attitude. They take action, which is empowering. Pessimists take a passive attitude. They play the blame game or focus on what they can't do. As a result, pessimists often become victims of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Goals are dreams with time lines. Turn your vision into action with goal setting. Seek progress rather than perfection.