Conclusion

“I con­ceive that plea­sures are to be avoided if greater pains be the con­se­quence, and pains to be cov­eted that will ter­mi­nate in greater plea­sures.“
– Michel Eyquem de Mon­taigne (Circa 1500)

Remem­ber that it’s not your goals that really count but how you live your life accord­ing to what’s impor­tant to you. If you feel you can not incor­po­rate this sys­tem with your cur­rent job or other respon­si­bil­i­ties, you should first try it out.

You might find out that your job is indeed part of your pri­or­i­ties or that it doesn’t mean any­thing at all to you. If the first is true, then you will have a greater zest and love for what you do. How­ever, if the sec­ond is true, then start look­ing for some­thing you love or would love to do.

One friend I know got involved in dif­fer­ent func­tions with sev­eral local asso­ci­a­tions think­ing that doing so was essen­tial in her busi­ness. How­ever, she felt stressed out because she couldn’t keep up with all of the demands on her life. She had press­ing needs at home, less time at work, and more work than she can handle.

But when she went through the GOAL process she dis­cov­ered that attend­ing these meet­ings were not impor­tant at all because they were not in tune with her val­ues. What was sur­pris­ing to her was the fact that she had a wrong sense of what her real val­ues were all along. This might hap­pen to you!

The philoso­phies and strate­gies you have read in this book are not some sort of path-​​breaking dogma or the only road to suc­cess. But one thing is for sure in that it is the surest way to dis­cover why one should (and not how one can) achieve one’s per­sonal success.

Remem­ber that if you live in a way con­sis­tent with your deep­est val­ues, your suc­cess is assured no mat­ter how small or how grand the pur­pose is in your life. If you focus only on your goals and not on your pri­or­i­ties, you are plac­ing a ceil­ing on your potential.

Remem­ber that the essence of you, the “You” of you, is your suc­cess­ful­ness. You don’t need any­thing out­side of you to prove it. So dump your goals — more specif­i­cally, change the way you used to look at them. And instead, love what you do or do what you love.

Either way, work on your goals that revolve around a clear pur­pose in your life, and reach­ing them will be merely a byprod­uct of your love. As well, peace of mind, hap­pi­ness, and absence of stress will equally become the result. When you real­ize this, you will grow in the right direc­tion and enjoy a much greater qual­ity of life.

Don’t just read this book once and for­get about it. And don’t dis­count the power of clar­i­fy­ing your pri­or­i­ties. Try the tech­niques out. You will never fully under­stand the rea­son­ing behind their use until you put what you have learned into prac­tice. You will never really achieve the free­dom you deserve.

Con­fu­cius once said, “I hear and I for­get. I see and I remem­ber. I do and I under­stand.” Remem­ber that this is not a “how-​​to” book but a “why-​​for” book. Try the GOAL method before you judge it. It might reveal many things about you, about your life, and about your deep­est con­vic­tions. The result of try­ing the sys­tem may grant you a whole new per­spec­tive on life.

Jim Rohn said this, which has been hang­ing on my wall, above my desk, for years: “There are some things you don’t have to know how it works. The main thing is that it works. While some peo­ple are ana­lyz­ing the roots, oth­ers are pick­ing the fruit. It just depends which end of this you want to get in on.”

Oprah Win­frey once said, “The hard­est things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which ones to burn.” This is what the tech­niques in this book will help you to do, which is to learn more about your own per­sonal bridges. To para­phrase Stephen Covey, “Seek to under­stand your­self before being understood.”

If you trans­late what is impor­tant in your life into what is urgent, then what is impor­tant will sel­dom if ever be placed on the back burner of your life. All in all, you will be happy and not just suc­cess­ful. You will find peace of mind as well as peace of time. You will improve the qual­ity of your life dur­ing the pas­sage of time. You can not con­trol time, there­fore enjoy it while you can. If you don’t, one day you might just be too late…

Good luck to you. Be kind to yourself.

May you be blessed with many oppor­tu­ni­ties, the wis­dom to rec­og­nize them, the courage to seize them, and the abil­ity to live them. But most impor­tantly, may you be pre­pared to grow from them!

Namasté,
Michel Fortin

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