Go!
Goal setting is one of the most common habits of successful people.
Attention! Read the biographies of some of the most successful people in history, and you will find that they had specific dreams, visions, and goals for what they wanted to achieve and successfully achieved.
I believe that when you set a goal, you need to do three things to achieve the result:
- Firstly, you must have a burning desire to achieve the goal.
- Secondly, you must firmly believe that the goal is possible and accessible.
- Thirdly, you should be in a state of expectation, that is, you should expect to receive a result.
Although this may seem a little philosophical, there is plenty of evidence in the scientific community to support this.
The most documented example is the placebo effect.
Doctors have found that patients can cure themselves of illnesses when they are prescribed powerful medications, which are actually sugar tablets.
The placebo effect has also spread to cancer research, and doctors are experimenting with treating patients, trying to get rid of cancer naturally when patients visualize themselves healthy and cured.
Can the same psychological factors that cause the placebo effect be applied to goal setting and thus help make a person or business more successful?
I believe that.
Perhaps nothing will give more confidence to the idea of burning desire, faith and expectation more than the following story.
Sam Walton Story
Sam was a poor child who grew up in the heart of America during the Great Depression.
Times were hard, and the baby worked hard to help his parents make ends meet.
He got up early in the morning to milk cows and sell milk to his 10-12 clients for 10 cents per gallon - and that is a lot of money in those days. He also walked door to door selling magazine subscriptions when he was only eight years old.
Sam had one good character trait - ambition. His mother always told him that he should try to be the best he could, no matter what he did. Therefore, Sam always did everything that interested him, with real passion.
Even as a child who grew up in Missouri, Sam was determined to set bold goals for himself. He was so ambitious that, becoming a scout, he argued with all the other children in his unit that he would be the first among them to reach the rank of Eagle Scout. Obtaining the eagle badge Eagle was not an easy task and required extreme courage. Most Eagle Scouts were a year older than Sam.
Sam won the bet when, as a 14-year-old, he saved a man from drowning in a river.
At that time, little Sam became the youngest eagle scout in Missouri.
In high school, Sam was elected chairman of the student council and actively participated in many other clubs. Despite being short, Sam joined the basketball team and was thrilled when he won the state championship. Sam also became the defender of the football team, which also did not lose.
Ambition and a positive mental attitude remained with him when he graduated from high school. By the time Sam got to college, he even had thoughts about someday becoming president of the United States.
He decided that he should try to first become the chairman of the university student body. So he won every community he came to, and by the time he graduated from college, he was elected president of the Society of Honor of Senior Men, an officer of his brotherhood, president of his senior class and president of the Bible class. He was also the captain and president of Scissors and Blade, the elite military organization ROTC.
By doing all this, he also ran his own newspaper business and earned between $ 4,000 and $ 6,000 a year, which was pretty serious money at the end of the Depression.
“Sam was a little distracted at times,” said the print run manager of one of the newspapers that Sam delivered to college, “he had so many things and desires that he kept forgetting everything. But when this boy focused on one thing, he certainly got his own. ”
Sam graduated from college with a bachelor's degree and got a job at the J. C. Penney store as a management trainee for $ 75 a month.
But Sam was not satisfied that he became a management intern, and soon began to look for other opportunities.
At the age of 27, having a loan from his father-in-law, he bought a small discount store in Newport, Arkansas.
Despite initial poor sales and strong competition from larger stores across the street, Sam set the goal for his small Newport store to become the best, most profitable store in Arkansas for 5 years.
Sam worked hard for five years and achieved his goal. Soon, he had the largest store in Arkansas. But he did not have enough time to enjoy his success.
Soon his world collapsed.
The lease expired, and the owner of his building refused to renew the lease. He knew that Sam had nowhere else to go, and decided that he wanted to take over the store in order to pass it on to his son.
“I couldn't believe this was happening to me,” Sam said. “It was like a nightmare.”
But Sam was not the kind of person who could easily resign.
He and his family moved to another city. There, in Bentonville, Arkansas, he opened a new store. He recalled how he overheard some people commenting on his new venture: “Let's give this guy 60 days, maybe 90. He won’t last that long.”
Well, Sam lasted more than 90 days. And his new store was successful. He soon began expanding his business and opening other stores around the state.
In 1962, at the age of 44, he opened his most ambitious store. He called it Wal-Mart.
The rest is history.
In 1985, Forbes named Sam Walton the richest man in America. A child who had to go shopping selling milk and newspapers founded the largest company in the world.
Wal-Mart made millionaires a thousand shareholders, secured jobs for millions of Americans, and helped improve the quality of life in many developing countries by lowering the cost of goods.
In 1992, Sam Walton received the Presidential Medal of Honor - the highest civilian award that can be awarded to an American citizen.
From childhood until the time he died in 1992, Sam Walton succeeded in everything he did. It is hard to say what qualities make people like Sam Walton successful in many different endeavors. But in his autobiography, he talks about why he thinks he's so lucky.