44 After

Years ago I created a series of courses teaching Personal Development.
I worked quite hard, opening five or six offices in as many cities.
Somehow, I was stuck there.
I even reread my own material (!) regarding goal setting /achieving. Surely I was missing something. Otherwise the whole concept of goal setting should be discounted.
I soon realized no one gets their goal until they decide what they’ll do AFTER they get it.
Normally we say “first things first” as in: First get your goal, then figure out what to do after.
Well, that’s NOT how it works. You get what you want only AFTER you determine what you’re going to do… AFTER you get what you want!

So I decided AFTER opening Canada, I would open the United States. I made a strategy book and, over the next two years, filled it with ideas.

I’m sure you know the ending to this.
I opened over 30 offices in Canada in those few short years.
Yet I never really opened many in the States. (Four or five)
And you know why: Because I never decided what I was going to do AFTER I had succeeded in the United States.
Because to get your goal, see, you have to decide ‘now’ what you’re going to do AFTER you get it. Get it?

Choose any goal you have yet to achieve. And decide what you’re going to do AFTER you get your goal.

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These are related:

5 Decision – 19 Expectations – 28 Getting What I Want! – 31 Being at-Cause – 37 Or Its Equivalent

41 Elephants – 49 Sharks – 59 Hesitation – 74 Dictating Your Miracle – 103 Ring/Knock Part 2