Setting Power Goals

Written by Alan Tutt


Setting Power Goals by Alan Tutt http://www.KeysToPowerProsperity.com

Every so often, every successful person sits down to evaluaterepparttar direction his/her life is taking and decide where they want their life to go next.

We all know how important it is to have goals. We hear from every expert on self-improvement and success that those with clearly defined goals achieve at least 7 times more than those without goals.

If you're like me, you've followed along with one of these success speakers to outline a series of goals that will motivate you to work hard and become greater than you've ever been in your life.

But have those goals truly motivated you? Did you reachrepparttar 122639 pinnacle of success? Did you make that million dollars, get that fancy sports car, or marryrepparttar 122640 fashion model of your dreams? Or if you were more realistic, did you get that raise, improve your current relationship, or attain a measure of self-confidence?

There's certainly nothing wrong with setting goals. In fact I agree withrepparttar 122641 motivational speakers in that goals are imperative if you are truly committed to creatingrepparttar 122642 kind of life you want.

But that'srepparttar 122643 real secret. What kind of life do YOU want?

We've been programmed since birth that everyone wants money, good health, andrepparttar 122644 ultimate relationship. Guys are programmed to wantrepparttar 122645 fancy sports cars andrepparttar 122646 beautiful women. Women are programmed to want a happy household and a successful career atrepparttar 122647 same time.

What I'd like to do now is to give you some questions to ask yourself to find out what you really want out of life so you can set your own goals, not someone else's.

The first set of questions to ask yourself are: What in your life irritates you? What makes you feel less than satisfied? What would you like to get rid of if you could?

Although most of us have been programmed to believe that certain things will make us happy, few of us have been programmed to believe that other things will make us unhappy. If you know what makes you unhappy, you have a good idea of what will really make you happy.

Now, ask yourself these questions: How would you like to spend your free time? If you were given a full month to do anything you'd like to do, where would you go? If you were told that you would die in six months, what would you do withrepparttar 122648 time you had left to live?

That last question especially gets torepparttar 122649 heart ofrepparttar 122650 matter. Most people would very quickly dismiss all ofrepparttar 122651 programming society has fed them if they thought they were going to die in six months.

Now, using that concept for just another moment, is there anything you'd like to accomplish to leave your mark onrepparttar 122652 world before you go?

This question starts to activate a part of your brain that normally stays quiet, thinking that there will always be time enough to dorepparttar 122653 important things in life. We all like to think so, but no-one really knows for sure.

Is there something that you could do to make this world a better place? Are there people that you could help in some way? Is there something you could do that would be remembered a hundred years from now?

Don't worry ifrepparttar 122654 answer to that last question is 'no'. Not everyone is destined for greatness, and maybe you just aren't cut out to be a legend. There's no shame in just being a cog inrepparttar 122655 machine.

But if you think that there may be something you could do that would impactrepparttar 122656 world greatly, don't let modesty stand in your way either!

Somewhere in this line of questioning, most people tend to find their life's purpose. That thing that they were meant to do while on this Earth. Their mission in life. The one goal beyond all other goals that will drive them onward through thick and thin, through rain and snow and sleet, over mountains and oceans, until they overcome their greatest fears and succeed where all others have failed.

A Call to Men to Live a Strenuous Life - Inspiration from the Life of Theodore Roosevelt

Written by Mark Cole


Any man would be justly proud to claim even a portion of what Teddy Roosevelt accomplished in just one of his fields, whether politics, hunting, writing, military, or family. He was an extraordinarily accomplished man with an enormous appetite for life.

In my opinion, he wasrepparttar greatest man ever to become President ofrepparttar 122638 United States – and I write that knowing full well that men such as Washington, Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Lincoln cannot be easily cast aside into second tier status. I doubt if any President ofrepparttar 122639 United States inrepparttar 122640 future will ever be able to threaten TR’s status in that regard. I don’t think there will ever be another man like him.

One ofrepparttar 122641 things that makes Roosevelt so remarkable is that he pushed himself incredibly hard to overcome obstacles. And lest we think somehow that he had it easy, we should not forget that he encountered more obstacles than most people. Yes, he was born into a family with enough money to do things like take yearlong European trips. And he had an incredible father who was a great role model for his son.

But Roosevelt’s father died when he was only a sophomore at Harvard – that is, just aboutrepparttar 122642 time when Roosevelt was becoming an adult, a man in his own right. The magnitude of that loss can hardly be appreciated from our point of view. Roosevelt’s near silence aboutrepparttar 122643 loss isrepparttar 122644 best indicator, seeing as he was otherwise never at a loss for words.

Furthermore, shortly after enteringrepparttar 122645 legislature, Roosevelt started his family only to lose his beloved young wife Alice afterrepparttar 122646 birth of their daughter. This tragedy was followed byrepparttar 122647 death of his mother within a few hours. Later in life, one of Roosevelt’s sons would tragically die in World War I. Throughout his life, Roosevelt had more than his fair share of tragedy. Yet, he pressed on, every time.

In addition, Roosevelt’s famously poor health as a young boy can hardly be overlooked. Anyone who has ever struggled with a serious childhood illness can attest torepparttar 122648 difficulty and suffering it brings, not just physically but also mentally. Can we really appreciaterepparttar 122649 fortitude and determination it took for him to defy doctors and to basically exercise his asthma out of his system? Extraordinary, indeed. The persistence and iron-willed determination which Roosevelt would show in building his physical strength would be replicated throughout his life, in his voluminous writing, in his rigorous hunting trips, in his all-night sessions with police onrepparttar 122650 streets of New York, in his maniacal campaigning, in his play with his children, in giving a campaign speech after he had been shot inrepparttar 122651 chest, in his charge up San Juan Hill.

As a friend once remarked to me, American boys (and men for that matter) do not need to read about pretend superheroes with imaginary powers. All they need to do is read aboutrepparttar 122652 true life of Theodore Roosevelt.

Batman? Superman? Give me a break. These guys would lose a fight every time to TR. ***

Many schoolchildren in America no doubt learn today that Roosevelt was a great conservationist and that as President he set aside countless acres for national parks and forests. That is absolutely true.

But an important element of TR’s conservationist philosophy is largely ignored in contemporary education. The reason is that his reasons for conservation were profoundly different from many inrepparttar 122653 environmentalist cause today. Many greens today seem to put nature into a moral category which is actually greater than human civilization. For them, conservation is a moral cause which is premised onrepparttar 122654 idea that man should simply keep his grubby hands off of pristine nature. The more extreme environmentalist even speak in terms which suggest thatrepparttar 122655 earth has “rights.”

Roosevelt would have nothing to do with this bizarre philosophy. For TR, men are clearly called to conserverepparttar 122656 environment, but not because it has “rights”. Rather, we conserve nature because that is where men go to test themselves, to do battle as it were againstrepparttar 122657 elements. And above all, men must go outdoors into nature to hunt and to kill. The importance of hunting as both a means of conservation and one ofrepparttar 122658 chief ends of conservation can hardly be overstated. Though this legacy is ignored in textbooks today, it is alive and well among those who do much ofrepparttar 122659 heavy lifting of conservation. Today,repparttar 122660 true environmental legacy of TR is carried on byrepparttar 122661 Boone and Crockett Club (which TR founded and which today isrepparttar 122662 definitive arbiter of uncompromising ethics in hunting),repparttar 122663 International Safari Club andrepparttar 122664 National Rifle Association.

For Theodore Roosevelt, conservation, battle, masculinity andrepparttar 122665 strenuous life are inextricably bound. Nature is where boys become men. They learn to survive. They learn to conquer and exercise dominion. In short, TR’s conservation philosophy would drive many a squeamish environmentalist today to abandonrepparttar 122666 cause.

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One ofrepparttar 122667 greatest tributes to Roosevelt is to let him speak for himself onrepparttar 122668 virtue of perseverance:

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution. The boy who is going to make a great man, or is going to count in any way in after life, must make up his mind not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses or defeats. He may be able to wrest success alongrepparttar 122669 lines on which he originally started. He may have to try something entirely new. Onrepparttar 122670 one hand, he must not be volatile and irresolute, and, onrepparttar 122671 other hand, he must not fear to try a new line because he has failed in another. Grant did well as a boy and well as a young man; then came a period of trouble and failure, and thenrepparttar 122672 Civil War and his opportunity; and he grasped it, and rose until his name is amongrepparttar 122673 greatest in our history. Young Lincoln, struggling against incalculable odds, worked his way up, trying one thing and another until he, too, struck out boldly intorepparttar 122674 turbulent torrent of our national life, at a time when onlyrepparttar 122675 boldest and wisest could so carry themselves as to win success and honor; and fromrepparttar 122676 struggle he won both death and honor, and stands forevermore amongrepparttar 122677 greatest of mankind.

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