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Are you on course to achieve your biggest goals?

Is your plan in motion and working?

Of course!

Will you need to make some adjustments along the way?

Of course!

If your goal really matters -- to you with some intensity, you will do what you need to do in order to achieve that goal.

If it doesn't really matter, there's almost nothing to be done. You need the joy. You need the spark. You need the course of action that lights you up so much that it lights up your path to success.

The reason for your goal is as important as your goal. Why does your goal matter? Why now? Why you?

Does that level of focus really make a difference?

Of course!


-- doug smith

 

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