“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
– Earl Wilson

Goals properly aligned will give you an impelling momentum that, like a snowball rolling down a snow covered hill, increases in size and speed along the way. The more you work on your priorities, the more motivated you will become and the more timely the results you will produce. They will increase and keep on increasing.

Pam Lontos once wrote, “Momentum creates more momentum as motivation actually feeds on itself.” Each little success achieved will increase your self-esteem, your effectiveness, and of course, your efficiency.

Alignment will also grant you the ability to discover hidden opportunities and resources; opportunities and resources you thought you never had. An aligned person somehow has more of everything.

Through the Law of Attraction, working with a sense of purpose ignites this inner magnetic force that positively attracts the right kinds of people, situations, experiences, ideas, and opportunities you will need along your journey. Ultimately, serendipity is the result of alignment.

You might think that this is a whole bunch of “mumbo-jumbo.” But in fact, when people are aligned, they are often considered “lucky.” Is it because of some metaphysical magic? Is it the result of some supernatural event? Is it really luck? Or is it because opportunities pass them by every single day and that such an alignment creates a heightened sense of awareness that causes them to discover what has been there all along? Of course, the latter is the right answer.

Alignment is opening yourself up to a whole new dimension, one that is and has always been there ready for you to enter when you are truly prepared for it. As Earl Nightingale once said, “Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”

Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “Efficiency is doing things right while effectiveness is doing the right thing.” I say that luck is the result of both. It’s doing the right things in the right way.

By aligning your goals with to your values, you are doing things right. Then, when you work on your goals (i.e., follow your values), you are in fact doing the right things because they reflect your priorities. In the end, what you choose to do at any time will respond to your uppermost values at all times.

This is where luck often comes in. You will have more desire, energy, and courage, and you will get a greater feeling of fulfillment both while you’re working on your goals and once they’re achieved. And you will attract all the necessary resources, events and people you need at that point.

Contrary to the traditional way people set goals, the process discussed in this book is in fact showing you how to do so in reverse. You are breaking your core values down into smaller, more digestible goals.

These are called “pipeline goals” or “point-to-point goals” (or what BrianTracy calls “benchmark goals”). If you just set goals, for instance, you will seldom if never be effective and, as often is the case, you will lower your self-esteem.

Therefore, you must first find out what your priorities are and then you use them to back up your goals. Together and properly aligned, you will be able to develop your goals into the right tools, skills, relationships, attitudes, and activities that you will require in order to achieve your goals. Thus, when working on your goals in reverse, you will become lucky.

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