The Man Who Went Broke Three Times
Read Over 5,000 Biographies
and Cracked the Code on
Life Goals That Actually Last.

This Did Not Come From a Library.
It Came From Half a Century
of Failures, Successes, and Sweat.

Peter Daniels opens this book with an unusual disclaimer. He tells you it is not a collection of other people's writings or ideas. It did not come from a desire to write or a feeling of knowledge. It is not from the high scaffolds of academia. But it does come from more than half a century of failures, successes, frustrations, disappointments, exhilaration, obstacles, sweat, sleepless nights, and a desperate desire to achieve.

He then says: "I warn you not to expect a miracle by reading this book; a miracle already has been performed by your existence. But you can fulfil a miracle by making the principles you are prepared to adopt a part of your life."

That is the voice this book speaks in. Not the voice of a theorist. Not the voice of a consultant who has read the research. The voice of a man who went broke three times, read over 5,000 biographies, survived multiple serious illnesses, built a multi-million dollar real estate empire, and then wrote down — with ruthless clarity — the system that drove it all.

The dedication is to Paul J. Meyer, the founder of the Success Motivation Institute and probably the world's foremost authority on goal setting at the time of writing. Meyer wrote the foreword. So did Dr. Robert Schuller, who declared it the single greatest source he had ever encountered on the principles, power, and possibilities of personal goals. And the editors of the Saturday Evening Post added their own endorsement.

This is not the book for someone who wants to set a quarterly goal. This is the book for someone who wants to set a goal for their entire life — and then build the entire architecture of desire, will, strategy, reserves, and daily affirmation needed to reach it.

Peter Daniels carries his life goal in his wallet. He reads it every morning. He has 29 major supportive goals organized in chronological order up to his 85th birthday. He writes a letter to himself every month comparing where he said he would be to where he actually is. The system works. He exceeded his ten-year plan beyond what he had imagined.

Not for the Novice Goal-Setter.
For the Person Who Is Seriously
Prepared to Pay the Price.

You Do Not Have a Goal Problem.
You Have a Foundation Problem.

Most people have goals. They write them in January. They revisit them in March. They have forgotten them by June. And they wonder why goal setting never really works for them.

Peter Daniels identifies the problem precisely. It is not the goal. It is everything beneath the goal — the desire that is shallow, the will that caves under the first real resistance, the price that was never named, the dream that was never nailed to paper, the master plan that was never built. Without that foundation:

• Goals feel exciting for a week and then become obligations you resent
• You set a goal and abandon it at the first disappointment — not because you lack resolve, but because you never built the dream architecture to sustain you through failure
• You live in the dream cocoon — all the comfort of the dream and none of its obligations
• Your subconscious and conscious goals are in conflict — and the subconscious is winning
• You have no time frame so determination has nowhere to terminate, and you end up in wishful thinking
• You have no reserves — so the first crisis dismantles everything

This book solves all of it. It starts with desire and will and price — the triad beneath every genuine goal. It moves through dreaming, personality, positioning, and pain. It arrives at the Goals Formula — seven rules that, applied completely, constitute the most comprehensive personal goal-setting system that Peter Daniels could derive from fifty years of application.

11 Chapters. A Complete Architecture
for a Life That Goes Somewhere.

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