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Goal Club

OK....first, I'll have to admit that 4 out of 10 people that I speak to about "Goal Club" seem to hear "Gold Club", and then the stripper jokes commence....while this speaks volumes, it has nothing to do with what I want to talk about here.

I have a group of 10 or so friends, networking pals, that have allowed me to speak to them on a process to set goals. It's a process that was introduced to me over a decade ago, by a leader that I respect immensely.  In a nutshell, it is a way to take a wish, and turn it into a goal (most people think they have goals, when they actually have wishes, goals have requirements). The process then takes those goals and adds a few steps that will best ensure the accomplishments of these goals.

Seems simple, but in the decade or so I've been doing it as a pupil, I've yet to truly master it. I'm not sure anyone has. I believe that's the beauty of the process, that the desire and process of making yourself better never stops. Mastery seems to require a more finite thing, growth and self betterment is always a good example of an ever moving goal post.

And so now, I the pupil am attempting to become the teacher. Funny thing is that I am learning more in my attempts to teach this process than I ever did as a pupil. Ironic.

I hope that I will help these friends who have entrusted me with their time. Most of it is truly up to them, and as presented seems pretty common sense to most....but several have seen this process as a bit of an epiphany...they just never took the time for themselves, never realized that their goals should come from an internal source and not an external one, and never knew the difference between a wish and a goal.

And, oddly, most of them never realized that it was OK to be a little selfish with some of these goals. When we broke down the roles they played within their lives most everything involved what they were to other people, or how they went about making money. Most of them seemed to feel completely uncomfortable about a goal that was completely their own, and not beholden to someone else or the almighty dollar. But we are fixing that.

So through this process and this group I hope to see that because of me a book was written, a trip was taken, an instrument learned, a hobby taken up....to see that I've helped a few folks get just a little bit more to the marrow of life.





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