You will Regret this for the Rest of Your Life.

Written by graham and julie


You will regret this forrepparttar rest of your life said John to his son as he heard that he was not going to continue with his education and had decided to join a local firm of accountants. Douglas had always been fascinated by figures and how companies worked and having reviewedrepparttar 129927 university courses on offer in accountancy couldn’t seerepparttar 129928 benefit of going to university. John meanwhile had his heart set on his son going to university. For him it wasrepparttar 129929 start of your opportunities. He had had such a great time at university and wanted Douglas to haverepparttar 129930 same benefits. He just knew he would regret it forrepparttar 129931 rest of his life. Douglas just couldn’t seerepparttar 129932 problem. If he didn’t like accountancy orrepparttar 129933 firm he had chosen he could always go to university later. And if it happened that way at least he would have given his first love his best shot and be entering university with more experience, confidence and knowledge. Douglas just couldn’t understand why his father had this doom and gloom attitude. What was it that this usually affable, intelligent man just couldn’t accept. If it was a mistake it still wouldn’t berepparttar 129934 end ofrepparttar 129935 world. What is it that makes you frightened to make mistakes? Douglas had learned in his short experience at school and college thatrepparttar 129936 best teacher is, mistake. The experience sticks with you. It is a much more thorough way of learning than through books. The best learning in his life had been through his own experience andrepparttar 129937 experience of others. He didn’t understand what he would regret forrepparttar 129938 rest of his life. He had seen many of his parents friends and his friends parents stuck in jobs and thought processes because they were afraid to move on. Their natural reaction when faced with anything new and different, “You are making a big mistake. You will regret this forrepparttar 129939 rest of your life”. What is it that when you decide to make a fundamental change in your life others can’t resist trying to put you off. But not just put you off but try to frightenrepparttar 129940 living daylights out of you with, “you will regret this forrepparttar 129941 rest of your life”.

Goal Setting Secrets of the Real Life Indiana Jones

Written by Vic Johnson


Remember when you were 15? Can you recall some ofrepparttar dreams you had then? How many have you accomplished?

My reflection on that is what attracted me so strongly torepparttar 129926 story of John Goddard, of whomrepparttar 129927 LA Times called, "The real life Indiana Jones," and one of his expeditions, "the most amazing adventure of this generation."

When he was 15, Goddard was inspired to create a list of 127 “life goals” (he called it “My Life List”). By his last count,repparttar 129928 young seventy-something has accomplished 111 of these PLUS 400 others he set alongrepparttar 129929 way!!

Here’s just a few ofrepparttar 129930 ones he’s reached:

He’s climbed many ofrepparttar 129931 world’s major peaks includingrepparttar 129932 Matterhorn, Ararat, Kilimanjaro, Fiji, Rainier andrepparttar 129933 Grand Tetons.

He followed Marco Polo’s route through all ofrepparttar 129934 Middle East, Asia and China.

He’s run a mile in five minutes, broad jumped 15 feet, high jumped five feet and performed 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups.

He wasrepparttar 129935 first person to explorerepparttar 129936 4200-mile length ofrepparttar 129937 world's longest river,repparttar 129938 Nile. (It wasrepparttar 129939 number one goal ofrepparttar 129940 15-year-old Goddard andrepparttar 129941 onerepparttar 129942 Times called “the most amazing adventure of this generation.”). He has also been downrepparttar 129943 Amazon, Congo and others.

John has been to 122 countries, lived with 260 different tribal groups, exploredrepparttar 129944 underwater reefs of Florida,repparttar 129945 Great Barrier Reef in Australia,repparttar 129946 Red Sea, and more.

He has flown 40 different types of aircraft and still holds civilian air records; has readrepparttar 129947 Bible cover to cover and learned to speak French, Spanish and Arabic.

The last two on his original list included marrying and having children (he has six) and living to seerepparttar 129948 21st Century, which he has done in style.

And I’m just getting started. But I think you getrepparttar 129949 point.

More than just one ofrepparttar 129950 greatest adventurersrepparttar 129951 world has ever known, Goddard is an incredibly wise person, as this quote of his demonstrates: "If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out."

How did John Goddard manage to live such an incredible life of achievement? Two simple, easily duplicatable “secrets:” He chose BIG dreams and he WROTE THEM DOWN.

There’s no power at all in small dreams. Whenrepparttar 129952 dream isn’t big enough, it’s too easy to give in torepparttar 129953 obstacles that appear in our life. It’s very difficult to maintainrepparttar 129954 persistence that all great achievement requires whenrepparttar 129955 dream is small or ordinary.

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