Chapter 17
Got A Huge Goal? Here's How To Reach
It!
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Today's Empowering Quote
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'Live Now / Die Later'
-tattoo on Carmelo Anthony's right bicep All-American Basketball
Player (2003 National Champion Syracuse Orangemen)
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Today's Empowering Question
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What can I do today that I have been
dreaming about for a long time?
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Today's Fast Session
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You know them instantly when you meet
them.
You want to be near them.
You want to be like them.
You know the type...
Always smiling. Hard worker.
Optimistic. Assured.
And they win... a lot.
Carmelo Anthony, only 18 years old, is
that person.
This past April, as a freshman, he led
our hometown Syracuse Orangemen to the NCAA men's national
basketball championship.
He routinely did the impossible.
Showing skills reserved only for those
'touched by the hand of God.'
All with a smile that lit up the
entire Carrier Dome.
He made us all forget about the
whipping winds and the 14+ feet of snow we were hammered with this
winter. It didn't matter.
Because we got to witness someone
special.
Sure, he has natural skills, but it's
a LOT more than that.
He works like no one else.
He's as coachable as they come...
He listens closely, learns from every
mistake, practices every day like he's playing for the NBA title.
And he's only eighteen.
Most people want to believe this kind
of talent gets inserted at birth.
Most want to believe that they just
don't have it.
It absolves them from responsibilities
for their failures.
And it's true that few people are born
with the physical ability to play sports at the highest levels or
the ability to tolerate the kind of stress endured by presidents of
huge corporations.
But what most people forget is that to
become great at anything, you've got to get single minded.
If you want greatness, or heck, forget
about greatness for a minute...
If you want to get past this next
challenge, to succeed at getting rid of the habit that has you by
the throat...
...then work on that one thing only. Sure, fulfill your daily responsibilities.
But when it comes to reaching this one
top goal, make it absolutely, positively a must. Look at this goal
like it's the most important thing in your life.
If you do this, I guarantee you of one
thing...
...that if you DON'T make it all the
way, you'll most certainly come closer than you ever have before.
And in the process of the reaching and
the straining, you'll be growing.
Becoming more capable.
Becoming the person other people want
to be like.
Because even if you reach your big
goal, it's possible to lose it all in the future, to go back to your
old ways.
Right?
But if you put all of yourself, and I
mean ALL of yourself into your reaching, learning everything you can
along the way, then not only will you most likely succeed now, but
you'll be able to do more in the future.
How do you think highly skilled people
in any field got so good? Were they born with all that knowledge and
skills?
Give me a break!
It's called work. I know that's a
dirty word to most people...
But if you want to get to that place
and be that person you imagine when you close your eyes, then honest
effort is the only way.
But don't be so glum...
Carmelo Anthony wasn't even considered
an elite recruit as a high school junior. No. But during his senior
year, he blew up... working like a maniac, that year building
massively on the skills he already had developed through
intensely practicing the same things day in-day out.
And because of it, he just barely
passed his college entrance exams.
And those people who love to look down
on those with lesser vocabularies, grades or looks... those things
are nice.
But you don't have to know everything
to reach your goals and to be successful in this life of yours. You
can't be all things. It's impossible.
You just have to do what you must to
get where you want to go.
If your goals aren't huge now, that's
fine. Reach the small ones. Build your confidence. And go from
there.
The tallest buildings start with many
sub-floors under the ground.
So, if that's where you are starting
from, know that you can still get where you want to go... one step
at a time.
The time for living is now.
So what are you going to do?
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Today's Winning Beliefs
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-- I am working hard to reach my
biggest goal now
-- I learn something valuable every day in pursuing my goal
-- I am becoming more today than I was yesterday
-- I love reaching for and achieving challenging goals
-- I can do it... I know I can
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