Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It
comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Do something that genuinely helps others and makes the world a better place in a
major way. That’s the way to have a happy, fulfilled life.
I agree with this line of thought. In my view there are only two ways to make a living
a)Do something on demand (supply & Demand are favorable)
b)Do something that improves the life of your client.
If you do the former and there are no barriers to entry one day you will be with no job (Even in Europe). If there are millions of people that can do what you are doing you have a problem. At the moment in Europe there is a huge demand to regulatory/compliance/legal & paper moving jobs. Those jobs have zero value for society. Everybody can be a compliance officer. One day they will be without job. On top of that deep inside you if you work in this kind of jobs you know you are doing nothing for society.
If you provide a service or a product that really improves the life of your client you have job and you feel a sense of pride in what you do. You are making a better world. This line of business is more sustainable and can bring you more money and happiness.
Only about 3 percent of adults have clear, written
goals. These people accomplish five or ten times as much as people of equal or better
education and ability but who, for whatever reason, have never taken the time
to write out exactly what they want.
From the Book Eat the Frog
I don't have a clue if there is hard data supporting this phrase.
However, in the Book What they don't teach you at HBS, Mark McCormack tells a study conducted on students in the 1979 Harvard MBA
program. In that year, the students were asked, "Have you set clear, written
goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?" Only three percent
of the graduates had written goals and plans; 13 percent had goals, but they
were not in writing; and a whopping 84 percent had no specific goals at all.
Ten years later, the members of the class were interviewed again, and the
findings, while somewhat predictable, were nonetheless astonishing. The 13
percent of the class who had goals were earning, on average, twice as much as
the 84 percent who had no goals at all. And what about the three percent who
had clear, written goals? They were earning, on average, ten times as much as
the other 97 percent put together.
What might be the reason for this?
1.If you set a goal you must think a bit where do you want to go. Many people just live day by day without a direction. To know where you want to go is a big plus.
Your vision of where or who
you want to be is the greatest asset you havePaul Arden
2.Focus, if you set a Goal or two probably you are going to focus on those tasks. You are good in things you repeat over and over. To have a Goal makes you repeat over and over.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin
Disraeli
I have some goals but not big goals. I have a weight target, i have a classification goal on the mountain bike Transportugal, etc.... but i don't have a goal like i want to be..... after this i will set some more intermediate goals.
