Choosing a goal changes your life’s path.

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Brian Kight

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

They choose different targets, chase different goals, and chart different courses.

  • One person aims at security with the least uncertainty. The other aims at excellence with the most possibility.
  • One person seeks environments with low bars that are easy to reach. The other seeks environments with high bars that are hard to reach.
  • One person goes after targets with the lowest chances of failure. The other goes after targets with the highest value.
  • One person wants to avoid competing with the best. The other wants to compete with the best.
  • One person favors comfort. The other favors impact.
  • One person steers toward predictability. The other steers toward adventure.

Both versions are inherently worthy, independent of choices and achievements. Both contain value. Both expend energy. Both require effort. But they are drastically different lives.

One person challenges themselves more than the other. One routinely aims at lower targets, while the other relentlessly aims at higher.
Everything about their lives diverges because of their chosen targets: Their experiences and understanding, knowledge and skills, beliefs and perspectives, opportunity and adversity, humility and convictions, circumstances and future.

The goals you decide to chase are what chart your course. The targets you aim at and summits you climb change the landscape of your life. Choose your targets wisely. They change everything about your life.

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