We all know that we have to set goals. If you didn’t hear it from your parents, you would have heard it at school or even at the movies. If you are in the corporate world or involved in sports, you would know all about goals.

We all know about the usefulness of goals. It gives us something to strive for, something that apparently motivates us. What would it be like to have a game of football with no goal? Every one in one team would just kick the ball to one side; the other side would kick it back.  A to and fro game with no goal, would be very boring indeed.

I know some of you might have started living life a little like that.  Worse still you are the business owners who inadvertently end up stuck in the daily grind of business, forgetting why you got into it in the first place. You give up your social life, then work super hard, don’t take holidays and you are the last to be paid.

But you may have noticed how goals sometimes lack lustre or are short lived and hard work. The problem is that if you don’t know or don’t understand about the secret power of goals, goals may seem to lose the intended effect.

“So, what is this secret power?” I hear you ask. It is a secret because people don’t know about it. The secret power of a goal is not the goal itself. The power comes in two parts from the person generating the goal.

First, the goal is really a piece of the person’s soul that is being expressed in the world. It is this self expression that is powerful beyond measure. This is where enthusiasm, energy and fun comes from.

In order for a person to achieve the goal, they have to BE a particular way. So the second secret power is that goals are about the person you become, not the thing you get. This is what our grandparents called “Character”. Understanding the secret power of goals will propel you to greater heights. Harness the power and go forth into the world!

By Adrian Ponnampalam
http://WealthCatalystCoach.com