“Now I’d like to discuss Wins. What is a win? A win is getting a goal and doing it. If someone else sets your goals for you then you won’t win much. You can do 10 times as much in an area that you like as you can in one which you dislike.
People who do not set goals cannot win, they do not have any future. Goals imply future time. No goals imply no future. People don’t win because they do not set goals or they set unattainable goals giving themselves a loss.
To win, set a goal you can do and do it. Then, set a larger goal. Society often “forces” one to set higher goals than he could naturally achieve. In order to “keep up” he attempts to do something he can’t. This may be the agreed-upon-fact in society, but it is certainly not the way to win.
Winning requires:
- Awareness and honesty about what you can do.
- Awareness that it doesn’t matter where you are on a gradient scale; it matters very much whether you are going up (winning) or going down (losing).
- Setting goals you can achieve.
- Achieving them.
- Setting new goals.
That is all there is to it.
Most people aren’t up to this simplicity. Most people have -failed at some time in the past and have decided to quit and not set goals any more. Stuck back in that failure they -just exist without a future, spending the years in front of a TV set. Conservatively speaking, about 90% of the U.S. is in this condition.”
from Excalibur Revisited, G. Filbert, p274-275