Raymond L. Burton - The Happy Soul

If you learn or stumble across something that makes you want to change your goal, then just do it. It’s amazing the things you come up with in the shower isn’t it?

You should keep in mind that failure to meet goals does not matter as long as you learn from it. Feed lessons learned back into your goal setting program.

This brings us back to the point I was talking about before. You must enjoy the process as well as the final outcome for this very reason. If after 15 years of working towards a goal it suddenly no longer holds any sparkle for you, simply move onto something else! There is absolutely no loss in this because striving for that goal just gave you 15 years of pleasure. It just happens that at this point in your life now, it’s no longer important. Move on, no big deal. (more…)

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The funny thing with most goal setting guides is that you are usually told to form a life long, 25 year plan and work your goals back from there and you will achieve a magnificent life. Well I’ve been there and tried that. The problem is that you truly don’t know the person you are going to want to be in 25 years. If you are living life fully, you never know what experience might turn all your best-laid plans on their ears!

10 years ago I was in the Canadian infantry and my goal was to become a sniper, crawl around in the jungles of panama and save the world. Now I’m writing self-help books. How does that work? (more…)

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“The path to mastery is becoming detached to the outcomes of life’s events.” R.Sharma

When you try to force something to happen, you’re missing what IS happening. Sometimes the best things in life are unfolding right in front of us. Yet we miss them because we’re focused on what “WE” want out of the situation instead of perhaps what is being offered right in front of us. (more…)

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