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The reports I got back were remarkable. Some
people said seeing those thoughts written to themselves
in their own handwriting brought the whole seminar
back to them. They felt a rush of excitement and a new
commitment to take action.
Are you willing to remind yourself to treat yourself
to your own best thoughts? Are you willing to set visual
traps and ambushes, so you’ll always see words and
thoughts you know you want to remember?
50. Get down and get small
The fewer goals you set each day, the more you feel
“pushed around” by people and events that are beyond
your control.
You suffer from a sense of powerlessness. Rather
than creating the reality you want, you are only react-
ing to the world around you. You have much more con-
trol over the activities of your day than you realize.
By increasing your conscious use of small objectives,
you will see the larger objectives coming into reality.
Most people participating in the free enterprise sys-
tem have become thoroughly convinced of the power of
setting large and specific long-range goals for them-
selves. Career goals, yearly goals, and monthly perfor-
mance goals are always on the mind of a person with
ambition.
But often those people overlook altogether the
power of small goals—goals set during the day that give
energy to the day and a sense of achieving a lot of small
“wins” along the way.
In his psychological masterpiece, Flow: The Psychol-
ogy of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
refers to large goals as “outcome” goals and small goals