How many times do we set a goal for ourselves? How many times do we decide to do something, get really excited about something, and months later we realize we hadn’t even started it yet? Today something came across my desk that wasn’t very long, but really made me think. Tom Landry once said:
“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It’s deciding how you will achieve it, and staying with that plan.”
I looked at that quote and thought how very true, and then I was going to pass over it. As I was about to delete it, my eye caught the word “goal”. It struck me that the first two letters are “go”. You can’t achieve your goal if you never really get up and “go”. The first thing you have to “go” and do is write out your action plan. The next thing you have to “go” and do is the first thing your plan says to do. They key word is “go”, implying action, movement and momentum.
And so, as another day goes by, sometimes “go” means moving out of our comfort zone because that’s where our goals reside, and…I have written.
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