International Business Statesman
How to Reach
Your Life Goals
keys to help you fulfill your dreams
Instant PDF download. 160 pages. Eleven chapters. Read it tonight.
keys to help you fulfill your dreams
Instant PDF download. 160 pages. Eleven chapters. Read it tonight.
“For goals set a sight that is clear and bright,From “Goals”, the poem that opens this book · Peter J. Daniels, 1985
And goals give you a purpose to strive and to fight.”
Peter J. Daniels opens this book with a warning, not a promise. It is not a collection of other people’s writings or ideas, he writes. It comes instead from more than half a century of failures, successes, frustrations, disappointments, exhilaration, obstacles, sweat, sleepless nights and a desperate desire to achieve. Every item and principle inside has been tried and tested in his own life first.
Then he says the thing almost no motivational book will say. Early in these pages you meet an element rarely discussed in books on motivation: success presupposes the willingness to bear pain. Daniels does not sell you a shortcut. He hands you the full discipline, desire, will, and price, and then shows you exactly how he paid it.
That single sentence, from the very first chapter, sets the tone for everything that follows. This is goal setting treated as a matter of character before it is a matter of technique. You will examine your motives, assess your position, face your personality honestly, awaken what Daniels calls your dream machine, and then commit your life goal to paper as a simple, logical statement of faith that you can measure every decision against.
The book is dedicated to his friend Paul J. Meyer, the world’s master goal setter, who also wrote its foreword. When a life spent teaching achievement earns endorsements like the ones below, it is worth finding out why.
The first time I read How to Reach Your Life Goals, I learned more than I had ever learned from any other single source on the principles, the power, and the possibilities of setting personal goals.
Peter J. Daniels has graphically demonstrated what can be accomplished by adopting a positive philosophy, setting challenging goals and following a plan of action for achieving those goals.
The creativity, the energy and the foresight that became Peter Daniels can be cultivated by any individual with the will to succeed. The editors of the Saturday Evening Post highly recommend this work.
Desire, will, and price. Daniels teaches you to creep up on your true desires gently, examine the motives underneath them, and strip away hereditary habit patterns that were never really yours. Here he defines willpower as putting power into the will and tells of his own commitment to exercise regularly until his 85th birthday.
Life, like a football match, sends the ball to the best positioned player. Three rules of positioning: make sure you are the initiator, maintain control in every situation, and do not be greedy.
A frank tour of personality types, starting with the people person. Daniels admits he is not one by nature. He would happily live in isolation, thinking and reading, yet he deliberately developed a gregarious personality to suit his goal needs. Proof that personality can be built, not merely inherited.
If you had the power to change yourself into what you would really like to be, would you use it? Daniels gets past the fantasy stage to the nuts and bolts of change, including the disarming story of correcting the protruding ears that had earned him the nickname saddle flaps.
Dreaming, Daniels argues, puts you on the periphery of Godlikeness, because you create something out of nothing. He shows how to take the brake off your dream machine, tells of his son Peter Jnr producing forty new ideas from two quiet hours in a hotel lounge, and of the office manageress he sent home on full pay until she returned with one imaginative idea.
What to do when you are fogged in at the airport, when the transmission fails thousands of miles from your destination and you cannot pay the bill. Daniels turns frustration into creativity and shows how to lean on your dream when circumstances collapse.
Life must be measured in something more meaningful than time. Daniels makes the case for goals that span a whole lifetime rather than a season, including the story of his wife’s mother, given less than a year by her doctor, who lived ten more and contributed greatly to those around her.
The biography exercise. Think of yourself at 90 years of age, writing your life story. What will its main theme be? A deep, practical method for surfacing the one objective that gnaws at the root of your life and demands fulfilment.
Asked how much time he spends with his family, Daniels answers, more than you do. He dismantles the myth that goal driven people neglect their families and shows how a real goals program builds security, closeness, and a home life protected by design.
Just as there are laws of physics, there are ground rules for goal setters. Break them at your peril; keep them and you will succeed. Seven major guidelines, laid out in full below.
Reaching a goal is one discipline. Keeping it is another. Attention to detail, reaffirming your formula by giving it away to others, and the closing word of a Christian author who accepts any foolishness in the book as his own and gives God the glory for any wisdom in it.
Define your life goal in terms of ultimate achievement, written down as a simple, logical statement of faith you can measure any decision against within a moment.
Turn the definition into a deliberate strategy rather than a wish.
Anticipate the obstacles on paper before they meet you on the road.
Give your plan margins so a setback does not become a surrender.
Attach your goals to time so they can be measured, not merely admired.
Draw the whole together into one governing document for your life.
Daniels’ final rule is a single instruction: begin.
Peter J. Daniels is an international business statesman who came from a disadvantaged background and spent years in various jobs before discovering the combination of beliefs and commitments that made him an outstanding Christian, a fulfilled family man, a successful businessman and a millionaire business statesman.
He has lectured on How to Reach Your Life Goals around the world at the request of others; this book was written in response to the call for more. A charter member of the International Board of Directors of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries, he provided visionary leadership for its television ministry in Australia, where he is a distinguished citizen. He dreams of helping others and pursues that dream, in Paul J. Meyer’s words, with the dedication, energy, and fervour of an evangelist.
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No, and Daniels says so himself in the introduction. He warns you not to expect a miracle by reading it, and states plainly that success presupposes the willingness to bear pain. What he offers is a tested framework: every principle in the book was tried in his own life before it was written down.
Anyone prepared to plan their life rather than drift through it. It serves the person setting life goals for the first time and the experienced achiever who wants a complete system for defining, finding, reaching, and maintaining goals across every category of importance: family, finance, social life, faith, giving, and country.
Yes, openly and warmly. Daniels writes as a committed Christian and closes the book by giving God the glory for any wisdom in it. The goal setting principles themselves are practical and have been taught by him to audiences around the world.
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