Why I Used To Hate Goals

For much of my life I've never really gotten into
goals. At least not the way achievers talked about
them. I've had vague directions I wanted to go in,
but I was more of a "play it by ear" kind of guy.
Goal setting to me seemed to take the spontaneity
out of living. It made me feel like I was a robot, or
something.

Because of that, I experienced a lot of the coasting
and drifting like I was talking about yesterday.
And yes, I've experienced the pain that comes
from living like that too.

Going with the flow eventually drowns your ambition
and your pleasure. I was living a black-and-white life.

One reason I was so resistant was I only saw goals
objectively. They were something sterile and
intellectual to me. I didn't realize how much joy you
could experience in setting and hitting goals. I just
saw them as mile markers on a hard road. No
wonder I resisted.

Not any more though. I've done a 180 and realize we
are all built-in goal seekers. And if we don't pursure
what we want we'll end up getting what we don't
want, by default.

I'm reading "The New Psycho-Cybernetics" which
is modernized, updated version of the 30 million
selling self-help classic. Dan Kennedy the multi-
millionaire speaker, business consultant, and direct
marketing wizard has done the updating because
the original book helped him overcome stuttering,
and develop the habit of success. I'm seeing things
in a new light, and recommend it highly.

One of the reasons I thought I wasn't goal-oriented
is much of it went on automatically in the
background. When I watch a 12 month old learning
to walk, and I see it clearly, but when I walk now I'm
not conscious of the goal behavior going on inside. It
is though.

As human beings we have the privilege of being able
to set meaningful, satisfying emotional goals - and
then to hit them.

Rick Rosser emailed me last night and was pumped
up about a new personal best in consecutive free
throws. I would be too, and I love hearing about
Rick's success and any of your successes.

He shot 1558 straight freethrows recently , and
now he's even more confident he can work up into
Guinness world-record territory. And as a truck
driver who travels around he's also hit more than
100 consecutive freethrows in 136 different
YMCA's across the land. That's probably a world
record already. You should check on that Rick.

Rick is excited about life, and you will be too
when you start setting some juicy goals that light
your fire.

Remember if you're not moving toward intentional
purposes, goals or dreams you're going to get the
leftovers and the hand-me-downs in life. Then
you're going to whine and complain which will
make it worse, and you're just not going to be
very happy at all.

Shoot For The Stars One Exciting Goal At A Time,

Dean - The Dean of Shooting Hoops

P.S. Dan Kennedy was also very instrumental in
compiling and bringing Psycho-Cybernetics to the
masses in a step-by-step workbook format that
anybody can follow and grow from. The course
called "Zero Resistance Living" turned my life
around, and I've I'm just beginning to scratch
the surface of it's possibilities.

Find out how you can live large today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/zero_resistance.html

P.P.S Dr. Maltz was a friend of Salvador Dali who
was the antithesis of the "starving artist". Dali
understood how to live life to the hilt, how to
communicate that joy of living on canvas, and
how to get paid what he was worth.

Tania Gabrielle French carries that same torch in
the field of music today, and she can show you how
to use power-filled words and beautiful music to
rise to new personal heights.

Experience the positive power of music today at:

http://www.deandelker.com/secret_power.html