[MdedBiz Success Tips #1] Dream Big Goals

[MdedBiz Success Tips #1] Dream Big Goals


DREAM BIG GOALS
Excerpt from The Modern Day (Real Life) Indiana Jones
by Vic Johnson


There was a story about a 15 year old boy by the name
of John Goddard.

John, one day, happened to hear his parents and another
adult talking, and the other adult had been telling John's
parents about how miserable his life was and how much he
had failed. He wished he was John's age again and could
live his life over and do some things differently.

Well, John heard the anguish in his voice, I suppose, and
he made a vow that he was going to do something at 15 years old.
So at 15 years old he took out a legal pad and began to write
the things he wanted to do in his life, what he wanted to
accomplish.

Before he was finished he had 127 things on his list. He
called it, "My Life List".

Today John is in his mid 70's. Of his original 127 goals,
John over the last 55-60 years has accomplished 111 of them,
plus 400 other ones that he set along the way.

And just so you know these weren't some small goals, here
are some of the goals that John Goddard has accomplished that
were on his list:

- He's climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, he's climbed Mount Ararat,
in fact, he's climbed every major peak in the world.

Now just that, how many people just doing that, would be one
great life experience? But that's just one of 500+ for John
Goddard.

- He took Marco Polo's route through all of Asia and China.

- He ran a mile in five minutes, he broad jumped 15 feet, high
jumped five feet, and so on...

- He was the first person to explore the entire 420 mile length
of the Nile River (that was his number one goal!). When he was
in 15 years old, no person had ever done it, but that fifteen
year old boy didn't know that, it didn't matter to him. He put
it on his list and when he did it, USA Today named him the
modern day Indiana Jones. He's been down not just the Nile
River. He's been down the Amazon, down the Congo, etc.

- He's been to 122 countries and lived with 260 different tribes.

- He's explored the Reefs of Florida, the Great Barrier Reefs
and so on...

- He's flown 40 different types of aircrafts. Still holds
civilian air speed records. Just that alone would be a great
life experience, that was just one of John Goddard's goals.

- He's read the Bible cover to cover.

- He's taught himself French, Spanish, Arabic (who reading this
could not learn a foreign language in the next couple of
years?).

And that is just a portion of over 500 dreams that John Goddard
has accomplished.

I hope we all learn from John Goddard! Here are two major
points that were impressed upon me:

1) John Goddard's goals (dreams) were written down.

How many of you have heard that before, to write your goals
and dreams down? Because for 20 years I heard it and I had
never written mine down, until just three years ago.

Brian Tracy says if you'll write your goals down you have
a 100 times greater chance of success, just by writing them
down.

Now I look at that mathematically and then by an inverse
way, from an opposite way.

What it says to me that if I don't write my goals down, I
only have a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding. Write your goals
and dreams down.

2) His dreams were BIG!

I've found that a small dream will not give you the bullet
proofing you are going to need. A small dream won't protect
you when bad times come. A small dream does not have any power
at all - it has to be BIG!

So get started today! How?

Go get a journal (or wipe the dust off the one you have) and
write down your BIG goals!

And then get started on your life story!

Excerpt from The Modern Day (Real Life) Indiana Jones
by Vic Johnson

Vic Johnson can be contacted at:
http://www.asamanthinketh.net


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