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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Have you ever heard the adage, I will accomplish this even if it kills me?

Well, in my early years of goal setting and achieving, I almost died and I missed

a lot of other opportunities along the way. I became so dogmatic, so focused on the goals that I had

set and the specific plans that I made to achieve them that my blinders kept me from,

one, seeing the easier and faster routes to my destination,

two, that some of the goals that I deemed important at the start of the year, or the decade,

were less important than I originally believed. And three, in that blinded focus, I didn't even

see the even better, more significant, more consequential, and even easier to

achieve opportunities that presented themselves along the way. One of the greatest challenges

to success is learning how to stay focused on your goals while remaining flexible enough

to adapt to any needed change. Even though we have designed a very specific strategic

plan to achieve them, it is equally important to remain open and flexible all along the way.

If you look back at most of your defining moments or those pivotal events that transformed

your life, I bet most of those were unplanned

and happened unexpectedly.

Life is a mystery.

You never know what might show up.

And so that means that you can't be so myopic

that you miss the opportunities and solutions

that you couldn't have even imagined or fathomed before.

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