"He who wills believes with a tolerable degree of certainty that will and action are somehow one - he attributes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of that sensation of power which all success brings with it."

Friedrich Nietzsche
'Beyond Good and Evil', (1886)

A Goal Achievement System has 5 parts

1. Setting Goals
2. Planning Strategy
3. Building Belief
4. Developing Strengths
5. Managing Process

Ron Willingham
‘The Inner Game Of Selling’, (2006)

"It is always the personal side that creates the problems, the stress, or messes up the goals."

Dr Henry Cloud
'Integrity', (2006)

“In all great successes we can trace the power of concentration, riveting every faculty upon one unwavering aim; perseverance in the pursuit of an undertaking in spite of every difficulty; and courage which enables one to bear up under all trials, disappointments, and temptations.”

Orison Swett Marden
‘Pushing to the Front’, (1911)

"If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live in a consistent way."

Marcus Aurelius
'Meditations', (170's)

About Wildly Important Goals - WIGS

WIG: all else being status quo, what one change will have the greatest impact on your business?

The answer will be from within the whirlwind (Operating) or from outside the whirlwind (Strategic).

As the change is completed it becomes part of the Whirlwind.

Rule 1. No more than 2 WIGs/team at any given time

Rule 2. The battles you choose must help ensure you win the war.

Rule 3. Top-level Leaders can veto but cannot dictate. Senior-level leaders will determine the top-level WIG. Veto lower-level WIGS if they don't lead to completion of top-level WIG.

Rule 4. All WIGS need to have the form "from X to Y by when".

McChesney, Covey, & Huling
'The 4 Disciplines of Execution', (2012)

“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”

Maxwell Maltz,
'Psycho-Cybernetics', (1960)

From Warren Greshes' 'The Best Damn Sales Book Ever' (2014)

3 reasons to write down goals:

1. So you don't forget them.
2. So you become committed to them.
3. So you become accountable to yourself.

"If you're not willing to take 5 or 10 minutes to write it down what makes you think you'll be willing to invest 5 or 10 years of time energy and effort to achieving it?"

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

Denis Waitley