> Gordon/Dien/Taylor -

> What an excellent topic to end one year with
> and begin another. *g*

> Dien, AFA dreaming big dreams, let me share
> some things with you. One of my favorite
> tape series is "Thinking Big" by
> Brian Tracy. I've listened to it many times.
> If you don't have it in your audio library,
> Nightingale-Conant has it available here:
> http://shop.nightingale.com/index.asp?WCI=ProductDetail&ProductIDN=14030&PD=L&WCU=341291
> Anyway, Brian Tracy quotes someone during
> the series, (I can't remember who at the
> moment. I think it was Thoreau.) He says,
> "Are you building your castles in the
> air? Good! That is where they should be. Now
> get busy and build the foundations under
> them." In addition, Tracy goes into
> some detail about creative problem solving,
> goal setting, setting high/large goals, etc.
> But Tracy goes one better. He tells you
> *how* to do these things, not just the
> *what*. I can tell you it was through using
> these principles and taking the actions that
> were presented to me that I was able to
> double my income in very short period of
> time. And it came about in a direction that
> I least expected. Tracy also discusses that.
> He says that just by recording the goals,
> unexpected doors and avenues will become
> available to you that would not have been
> available had you not written the goal. This
> was certainly the case for me.

> Absolutely.

> Some people seem to do fine without setting
> goals. I seem to need them. However, I think
> even those people who claim they don't set
> goals have some kind of direction that they
> follow. Those that don't have either seem to
> drift.

> There is for me.

> Well, it seemed to work in my case.

> I will be putting these methods to the test
> again during a trip out of town. Perhaps I
> will record a few goals here after I return
> on Monday. Then we can see how they come out
> at the end of the year. Although that might
> become self-fulfilling prophecy. *g*

> Rick Smith, "The Net Guerrilla"