What do you want to accomplish?

You can wish your circumstances were different and wait for them to get better, but that is a losing strategy. If you want to win, you can't depend on favorable circumstances or shrink in unfavorable circumstances.

Between September 1940 and May 1941, Nazi Germany launched an aerial assault on England known as “The Blitz.” It was the largest, longest, most concentrated bombing offensive the world had ever seen.

Setting a goal won’t change anything, but pursuing one will. The goals you choose to pursue change more than the landscape of your life. They change you.

I end this week on a heartbreaking note. Two nights ago (Wednesday, January 29), American Airlines flight #5342 from Wichita, KS, collided midair with a helicopter at Washington Reagan Airport (DCA). Both aircraft crashed into the Potomac River. There appear to be no survivors.

Two people of equal ability and circumstances, with similar discipline and commitment, who work equally hard with great attitudes can produce unequal results. How?

New and early users of E+R=O get sucked into the gravitational pull of event fixation. Because the equation is EVENT + RESPONSE = OUTCOME, most people naturally think from left to right, beginning with the event."When I experience [ABC or XYX] event, I will try to respond better."

Within you resides the most powerful engine in the known universe. It can think, feel, and reason. It can imagine, invent, and intuit. It is equally capable of believing without seeing as it is seeing without believing.

Discussions about goals focus more on how to pursue goals than on what goals to pursue. I told you last week to take the next shot and charge the next summit. It got me thinking.

Three Observations: