“We have exceeded our goals, acquired new friends and donors and accelerated the mission to build simple, decent homes. We know that setting and achieving goals is important and adds to our integrity and the mission.”
“If anything, the reason why they scored that goal was a mental lapse. I feel like the girls, there were some bad calls and they just mentally were out of it for a few moments, and that's when they scored the goal.”
“Our goal coming into this season was to get to the playoffs after only winning three games last year. So we've reached one of our goals. Now we just want to keep it going.”
“For other medical conditions, there are clear-cut treatment goals. For epilepsy, it is eliminating seizures. For high blood pressure, it is to reduce blood pressure to a normal range. It is equally important to clearly outline goals of treatment for depression.”
“Fumbles are something I pride myself on not doing, ... My goal is zero. The season just started, and I got two in one game. Now I've got to go back and redo my goals.”
Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.
“If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race-it's up to you.”
To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time working on the task in front of you, instead of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the big goal.
At the end of your life you want to arrive at a well-designed destination rather than an unexpected destination, and you do this by setting life goals, not short-term, not medium, not long-term, but life goals.
“I think the goal gave us a little confidence, knowing we had to go against the wind in the second half. It was very important for us to get a goal with the wind to our backs. It made a difference.”