145Now go to the final circle, “My Day.” What do you
need to do today—that if you repeated it every day—
would ensure a successful month?
(By the way, as I said, this doesn’t have to just be
about money, it can be about physical fitness, learning
a language, relationship networking, spirituality, nu-
trition, or anything important to you.)
The power of this system lies in thinking of it as a
universe, which, as Wayne Dyer keeps reminding us,
means “one song.” When you work the math, you cannot
help but see that each circle, if done successfully, guar-
antees the success of the next circle. If you hit your daily
goal every day, your monthly goal is automatically hit—
in fact you don’t even have to worry about it. And if your
monthly goal is reached, the yearly goal has to happen.
And if your yearly goals are hit, the lifelong goal cannot
not be reached.
When you study the irrefutable mathematical truth
contained in this system, a strange feeling comes over
you. You realize that all four circles are ultimately de-
pendent on the success of just one circle: the circle la-
beled, “My Day.”
Then you get the strangely empowering sensation
that you have just proved on paper that your day and
your life are the same thing. There is no future other
than the future you are working on today. Your future
is not stranded out there somewhere in space.
This is what the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke
meant when he said, “The future enters into us, in or-
der to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
Remember that once you have worked out the math
for this, the circle game is only a four-minute daily ex-
ercise. Many times in seminars I give, participants will
say that they are too busy for all this goal-setting activ-
ity. They have lives to live! But I like to remind them of
Play the circle game