Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

The chain is never ending.
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to
concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause
ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the
long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your
goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. So maybe the
key question you and I need to ask is, "What kind of person will I have to become in order to
achieve all that I want?" This may be the most important question that you can ask yourself, for its
answer will determine the direction you need to head personally.
Please take a moment now, and write a paragraph describing all the character traits, skills,
abilities, attitudes, and beliefs that you would need to develop in order to achieve all of the
goals you've written down previously. Certainly you'll have to take action to achieve those goals.
But what qualities will you need to have as a person in order to turn this invisible set of commitments
into your visible reality? Before going on, take a moment right now and write this paragraph.
THE KIND OF PERSON I NEED TO BECOME IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE ALL THAT I WANT:
THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP
For years I had set goals and not followed through. I'd get inspired in the moment, get all pumped up,
but three weeks later I noticed I wasn't following through on anything I'd written down. Writing a goal
is certainly the first step, and most people don't even do that; just the action of committing your ideas
to paper begins to make them more real. But the most important thing you can do to achieve your
goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The
most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a
very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of
setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
As I emphasized in Chapter 2, a true decision is one that you act upon, and one that you act upon
now. Use the momentum you've built up in coming up with your top four one-year goals. The most
powerful
way to continue this momentum is to take immediate action as soon as you finish this chapter. Even
the smallest step—a phone call, a commitment, sketching out an initial plan—will move you forward.
Then develop a list of simple things you can do every day for the next ten days. I can promise you that