Foreword

In the autumn of 1996, I still remem­ber that faith­ful week and a half when it all hap­pened. My busi­ness went belly-​​up. They came to repos­sess my car. The land­lord, evic­tion notice in hand, came knock­ing on my door. And my ex-​​wife packed up her things, say­ing, “I’m leaving.”

But through­out this time, I had a flash of insight. One that changed the way I was think­ing but didn’t real­ize it until later.

You see, Drop Your Goals And Man­age Your Life is the result of years of writ­ing in my jour­nals, both prior to that event and fol­low­ing it. Why? Because…

... I Was Desperate to Succeed.

In a way, I wanted to prove to myself that I can suc­ceed, and thus refute my abu­sive father, now insti­tu­tion­al­ized with Korsakov’s Syn­drome (a men­tal ill­ness caused from years of alco­holism), who kept label­ing me as a fail­ure.

With so many late nights spent at the office, I was the prover­bial worka­holic. And after that faith­ful event in 1996, it occurred to me the real mean­ing of success.

And yes, I finally did achieve it.

But it wasn’t what I expected. It wasn’t some event, acquir­ing some mate­r­ial pos­ses­sion or reach­ing some objec­tive. I did it in a far more pow­er­ful way. A hap­pier, peace­ful way, that is.

And after re-​​reading my entries in my jour­nal, I decided to put it all together in a book writ­ten close to 10 years ago. It’s about the power of man­ag­ing one’s time around one’s core val­ues. I pre­fer to call these “guides” and not “goals.” Or sim­ply, your pri­or­i­ties.

In my cur­rent busi­ness, as a mar­ket­ing con­sul­tant and copy­writer, I often talk about the power of writ­ing in jour­nals and set­ting value-​​based goals. I even wrote mar­ket­ing arti­cles about it.

And lately, I thought about doing this. You see, I may have writ­ten that book many years ago. But I never wanted to release or pub­lish it because…

... This is NOT Your Average Marketing Book.

Admit­tedly, it may be a lit­tle “out there” for some peo­ple. Per­haps a lit­tle meta­phys­i­cal. A lit­tle spir­i­tual. A lit­tle moti­va­tional. A lit­tle “higher con­scious­ness” related. And I respect that. While this might not be appeal­ing to some, for oth­ers this book about how to stop set­ting “goals” and start set­ting “guides” instead (i.e., your pri­or­i­ties) might be the most pow­er­ful, life-​​changing book you have ever read.

I wrote this book as a way to teach myself, in my life, and a way to go through some of the hard­ships I was going through at the time. It’s about increas­ing your self-​​esteem, liv­ing a life of pur­pose and stop “man­ag­ing your time” and focus on man­ag­ing your life instead.

In fact, the book is enti­tled, “Drop Your Goals And Man­age Your Life! (Rather Than Set Your Goals And Man­age Your Time: A Plan For Giv­ing Back The Qual­ity Your Life Deserves).” And now, with cur­rent events in my life and the recent changes I made to my career, this book has more mean­ing to me and the peo­ple around me than ever before.

I used to sell it for $30. Well, being a tad nos­tal­gic this week and rumi­nat­ing and rum­mag­ing through my old stuff on my PC, I found an old copy, changed my con­tact info at the end, and con­verted it to a website…

… And I’ve decided to give away free copies!

I also believe in karma, in that what goes around, comes around. So please, if you want to pass it along, reprint it, give it away, send peo­ple to this web­site, email it to friends, dis­trib­ute it… Go right ahead!

An Introduction to This Book.

Have you ever felt over­whelmed? Have you ever tried to accom­plish as much as pos­si­ble but felt you were going nowhere? Well, you’re not alone.

I felt like that many times in my life. And today, unfor­tu­nately, many peo­ple who fol­low this “do-​​as-​​much-​​as-​​you-​​can” phi­los­o­phy never get to enjoy the really impor­tant things or the things that really matter.

Drop Your Goals and Man­age Your Life! is a book ded­i­cated to those kinds of peo­ple. It has served me well and I have prac­ti­cally turned my life around because of it. How­ever, the ideas dis­cussed in this book are not born yes­ter­day. Ben­jamin Franklin, Jesus, the Bud­dha, Socrates, and Aris­to­tle have also taught them in their own times. How­ever, it seems that they are now needed more than ever.

Enjoy the book. But most impor­tant, enjoy your life. To me, that’s the true mean­ing of life. If the book has helped you as much as it has helped me, please drop me a note. Write me or email me at michel@​successdoctor.​com. I wel­come any com­ments or sug­ges­tions, even those I can use in future works.

Yours sin­cerely,

Michel Fortin
The Suc­cess Doc­tor™
Suc​cess​Doc​tor​.com

P.S.: Please read with an open mind.

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