The Magic Lamp: Goal Setting for People who Hate Setting Goals

The most effective way I know to deal with a regressive wish is to take it one day at a time. Don't worry about tomorrow, or next week. Just get through today. Do what you're supposed to do today, and after enough “todays,” tomorrow will shape up just fine

The important thing to remember about regressive wishes is that they require more than time to make them work. They also require consistent effort.

True success is far more likely to be joyful than to be painful, because it is far more likely to be the result of doing what you enjoy, than of doing what causes you pain

they allow themselves to enjoy the process

They are thinking about what else they might be doing. They are thinking about what they are missing. They are thinking about how much they dislike their work. Their pain is inflicted not by their attention to their work, but by their lack of it.

People who wear a pained expression while they are working are the ones who are not absorbed in what they are doing

The race doesn't go to the swiftest; it goes to the one who refuses to lose

The principle is this: Don't look to your talent to make yourself successful; look to your desire

Don't worry about talent, worry about desire. Success is much more often a result of desire than it is of talent

Goals provide meaning and purpose to our everyday existence, without which our lives would be as empty as the ocean without water.