Goals - And the biggest lie ever told

The biggest lie ever told has been told for thousands of years. We tell ourselves this lie, we show it to our children. When it is shown that the big lie is not true, we call it a great evil that others have done to us. We still believe that the big lie, even if it was never true, will never be, and when the time comes, we don't even want it to be true.

So what's the big lie? The big lie is that if you work hard, you will succeed. The big lie is that hard work leads to success. The big lie is that there is a direct cause and effect relationship between working very hard and being successful.

My friends, this is just not true. It was never true. There is nothing you can do to get there. It has nothing to do with "justice". It is not the fault of the government. He has nothing with others who take advantage of us. This is not how the world works.

To say that working hard is synonymous with success is to say that driving fast is a wonderful destination. Suppose you get in your car, get on the gas and go! Will you find yourself at Disney Land? Las Vegas Maybe, Branson Missouri?

Probably not. In all likelihood, if you just accelerate your car, walk on the gas and go, you will end up crashing in the car wash next to the gas station. Maybe you run out of gas on a deserted highway in Montana. This is because, in itself, driving (just like work) does nothing.

The real way to reach a wonderful destination is (1st) to sit down with your family and decide where you want to go, (2nd) to use a map and create a map to get there and (3rd and finally ) to get there. Driving is only useful when it is used to travel along a road to get to a predetermined destination. No destiny and no plan: driving only consumes time and fuel.

The same applies to the work efforts that you and I make every day. In the absence of a goal and in the absence of a clearly defined plan to reach this goal, work only tires and sweats it.

Please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that hard work is not necessary to achieve your goals. (You didn't think you were going so easily, right?) Hard work is almost always necessary to get there. However, unfortunately, most of the work is indeed useless and unnecessary. Very little work is done along a carefully designed path to a clearly defined goal. Most of the work is done after the big lie. Most people work very hard because work is supposed to produce results.

A carpenter who uses a plan to build a house for which there is a local market can produce marvelous and economically productive results with his work. The carpenter himself can work like nailing boards indiscriminately in the scrapyard and produce nothing of value, and he will probably be thrown out of the scrapyard for his problems.

Achievement does NOT come from work. Like driving, work is only a tool for advancing in a plan towards a goal.

The most successful people in the history of the world are not the toughest workers. A quick trip to a local coal mine or a team of roofers will verify this. The most successful people in the history of the world are the ones with the clearest, most passionate, and most explicitly specific goals.