People That Hate to Set Goals

In 1921, Stanford University began a landmark study of 1528 gifted children, all of who have an IQ above the level of genius. The objective was to better understand the relationship between human intelligence and human achievement.

The study became world famous and continued for decades, producing some of the most remarkable insights into the role that intelligence plays in a successful life.

The most remarkable insight of all was that IQ is not the most important ingredient for success. Instead, the study found that three factors are far more important than sheer intelligence when it comes to achievement: self-confidence, perseverance, and a tendency to set goals. The most important of all - even for geniuses-is the tendency to set goals.

For most people, goals are boring. For another, they threaten the individual. They lock the individual in a cage when all that is wanted is the freedom to be open to every opportunity, but the obligation to pursue none. It is known that goals work, but most people are never willing to put them to work.

Most people daydream about the fame and fortune they will possess if only they could make their wishes come true-like in a fairy tale. What a wonderful fantasy! It is too bad that there is a catch-in a fairy tale you could always count on a fairy godmother for help, or wizard, or a genie. Unfortunately, all most people can count on is themselves.

Wishes are goals-but goals with snap, crackle, and pop. Goals provide the process that can take you anywhere you want to go, but they lack the inspiration to get you there. Wishes are different. They have impact-like being struck by lightning instead of by a lightning bug. They let you dream. They let you soar. They let you tap into a source of limitless possibility and boundless energy that gives you the power to accomplish what you might otherwise never have imagined. If you want to make good things happen in your life, think in terms of wishes instead of goals.

Kieth Ellis never felt much joy in rolling out of bed in the morning and telling myself, " today I'm going to work on my goals ". But the thought of saying, " today I'm going to make my wishes come true "-that got me excited. That made me feel, as though I could accomplish anything. It was the missing spark that set my life ablaze with success, prosperity, and happiness.

Kieth transformed everything he knew about goal setting into a strategy for wishing. He named this strategy the L.A.M.P. process. As soon as he committed my ideas to paper, he put them to work. As soon as that put them to work, he began to make my wishes come true.

The moment he changed himself, the world changed around him. The things he wanted to happen began to happen. The kind of life he had been afraid even to dream about began to unfold before my eyes-like magic.

I've written this document to share with you this remarkable power to make your wishes come true. Is my intent to offer a strategy, not a sermon. I'm not going to preach about motivation or try to sell you on success. I assume you already want more from life than what you have and you're searching for ways to get it. That is exactly what you'll find here: a way to get it, what ever your background, whatever your age, what ever your circumstances.

But what about luck? Isn't it true that fortune-good or ill-is what ultimately determines our fate?

Luck performs its part in what happens to you; what you learn here is how to perform yours. Fortune deals the cards; what you learn here is how to play them. Fate rules, but favors those who learn the rules. This article is about the most important rule of all-cause and effect.

Cause and Effect

You may be able to break the laws of man, and from time to time you may even get away with it, but you can't break the laws of nature. If you try, they will only break you.

Consider the law of cause and effect. For every effect there must be a cause. That cause must always precede the effect. Simple, direct, inescapable, it's perhaps the easiest natural law to remember-and it is definitely the easiest to forget.

If you desire to a specific effect in your life-whether it involves a relationship, or a job, or an important project-you must first set in motion the cause of that effect. Whenever that cause is missing, the effect will be missing as well. Whenever the effect is missing, you can be certain that you have neglected to set in motion the appropriate cause.

One of the most important decisions you will ever make in your life is this: Do you choose to be a cause or an effect? When you choose to be a cause, you make things happen. When you choose to be in effect, you settle for whatever happens to you.

The difference between being a cause and being an effect is the difference between being a hammer and being a nail. One acts; the other is acted upon. This document presents a strategy for those who would rather be a hammer then a nail.

The L.A.M.P. Process

This document will show you how to set in motion that cause that will produce the effects you want. The letters L, A, M, and P each stand for one of the four major steps in the process. You can memorize the steps in less than a minute and apply them for the rest of your life. You'll understand why you don't need to be particularly talented or intelligent to make your wishes come true. You just need to follow these four steps:

Step 1: LOCK ON

Decide what you want to wish for. Think of it as choosing the effect you wish to cause. Once you have chosen that effect, lock on it the way a guided missile locks on its target.

Step 2: ACT

Set in motion that causes that will make your wish come true.

Step 3: MANAGE YOUR PROGRESS

Track the causes you set in motion to make sure that they are producing the effects
you want. If they are not, then adjust what you're doing.

Step 4: PERSIST

Finish what you start.

Principle: to get what ever you want from life you have only to set in motion the appropriate cause, and the effect will take care of itself.