Ken Levin talked with the locals, and everyone's answer was the same: no matter which direction you go from here, you will eventually turn back to this place. In order to prove the truth of this statement, Levin made an experiment, walking north from Bisell village, and it took only three and a half days to get out.
Why can't Bisell people go out? Ken Levin is very confused. Finally, he decided to hire an Bisell to lead the way and see what was going on. They are going to use half a month's water to pull two camels. Ken Levin put away the compass and other equipment, and only pulled a stick to follow.
10 days have passed. They walked about 800 miles. On the morning of 1 1 day, an oasis appeared in front of them, and they really returned to Bisell. This time Ken Levin finally understood that the reason why Bisell people can't walk out of the desert is because they don't know Polaris at all. In the endless desert, if a person walks forward by feeling, he will walk out of many circles of different sizes, and the last footprint is in the shape of a tape measure. Bisell Village is located in the middle of the vast desert, while Fiona Fang is thousands of kilometers away. Without a compass, you really can't go out.
Ken Levin and a young man named Guser left Bisell. He told the young man, "As long as you rest during the day and walk towards the brightest star in the north at night, you can walk out of the desert." Guser did as he said, and three days later, he really came to the edge of the desert.
From this story, we can easily realize that what many people fail to succeed in life is not their ability, but their correct guiding direction and clear goals.
Woody Allen once said that most people spend 90% of their lives wasting their time. Most people's living standards only stay at: eat to eat, work to work, and go home to go home. They wander from one place to another, doing one thing after another, as if they have done a lot of things, but they have little time to do what they really want to accomplish. That's it, until I die of old age.
Comparing these two stories, we can only say that most people's lives are not much different from those of Saier, because they don't have a clear goal, or they don't insist on pursuing it. So, in the end, when you retire, you will find that you have wasted most of your life, and the rest will pass away little by little in illness.
Everyone has had all kinds of desires and goals. If the desires and goals of ordinary people are like faint stars or fleeting meteors in the night sky, then the desires and goals of successful people are like burning flames, which are radiant and will not be extinguished easily.
Penz, the partner of the great inventor Edison, was an ambitious but poor young man before he entered the Edison Institute, but he believed in his talent and had a strong desire for success. His greatest wish is to do something with the great inventor Edison.
When Pan Zi first arrived in Edison's city by freight train, he was ragged and "like a vagrant", but there was a very strong "something unusual like dreams and hopes" in his heart, which burned in his heart and occupied his life, prompting him to take action and knock on the door of Edison Institute.
In the first five years of his work in Edison Institute, he was just an insignificant "pinion" in anyone's eyes, but he never forgot his wish to become Edison's partner. In order to achieve this goal, he made a detailed plan of "cutting off all retreat"; In order to achieve this goal, he devoted himself to his work and gave all his enthusiasm and ability.
Penz finally succeeded. His dream, his will, and his enthusiasm for work have all been rewarded in the best way.
People with goals can always create greater value and achieve greater development in their work. One day, three workers were working on a construction site-building a wall. A philosopher came to a construction site and asked three workers who were laying bricks, "Master, what are you doing?"
The first one said, "Brick laying."
The second said, "A wall is being built."
The third said, "A church is under construction."
The philosopher immediately judged that the third person with the church in his heart would become a great man. Later, the first two workers were still laying bricks on the construction site, and the third worker was john calvin, one of the founders of the19th century religious reform movement.
This is the great power generated by the goal. It can be said that goal is half the battle. Another true version that is very similar to this story is:
Twenty years ago, david andersen and Jim Murphy started working in the railway company on the same day. Twenty years later, david andersen is still in the railway company, leading the workers to work on the roadbed under the scorching sun every day, and Jim has become the chairman of the railway company.
Faced with such a huge difference 20 years later, David said a meaningful sentence: 20 years ago, I was working for an hourly wage of $65,438+$0.75, while Jim Murphy was working for the railway industry.
As David said, the reason why two people are so far apart after 20 years is because their goals are different. How high a person can fly is not determined by his natural talent or ability, but by his own life goals, attitude towards life and good spiritual quality.
From a hazy dream to a clear and intense desire to know what you really want to do is a psychological leap; It is another leap from longing to truly establishing your own goals. A successful person still has a long way to go to realize his dream and turn it into effective action, and may even pay a heavy price. The key is whether this growing dream and desire can be transformed into a clear goal and a driving force for self-motivation in the deep heart.
"How many desires you have, how many achievements you have." Although this statement cannot be said to be true, it is also the feeling of many successful people. How strong your desire is, how powerful your motivation is. Motivation often comes from pressure, great stimulation or dream motivation. The suffering of disasters can make you strong. People often find their own strength when they are at the end of the road. When a person feels independent, he will find his own strength.
In the article "Writing to Garcia", Captain Andrew Tam can successfully write to Garcia through difficulties and obstacles. The first rule of his success is to focus on the goal. He won't change his goal halfway, go directly to the front to kill the enemy or simply retire to the mountains. Everything he did in the forest revolved around delivering letters. He never forgot his goal: delivering letters to Garcia. He always holds a goal, and he knows what his mission is. He stared at it closely to keep it from blurring.
Most successful people have two common characteristics: first, they clearly know their career goals; The second is to keep moving towards the goal. The meaning of a goal is not only the goal itself, but also the basis of our actions, the basis of our beliefs, the source of strength, the core of concentration and the realm of pursuit. Emerson, the father of American spirit, said, "The whole world will make way for those who pursue their goals wholeheartedly."
Let's take a look at the construction process of Magat Hotel Empire.
During the struggle of Magat when he was young, the dream of establishing a grand hotel became clearer and clearer. During the Great Depression after World War I, the catering industry in the United States was very lonely, but Magat bought several big restaurants under the ridicule of people, and soon the American economy recovered, and restaurants in Magat also created huge profits for him.
Just like Donald Hilton's hotel business, Magat's restaurant industry was struggling at first, but in the end, he took advantage of his favorable weather, geographical location and human relations to make a sudden appearance in the American restaurant industry.
Because of the discovery of oil, Texas was like the gold rush in the west, and a large number of people flocked to the oil exploration industry. Only Magat was unmoved. He seized the opportunity and decided to continue to make great efforts in the catering industry. Running a restaurant became his only pursuit.
In his mind, there is a bigger and grander dream that urges him to take a solid step, that is, the plan to build a towering large-scale comprehensive commercial building integrating catering, entertainment and shopping is becoming more and more clear in his mind.
He even thought that when his building was completed, a signboard with the words "Magat Catering Group" would be erected on the roof-he wanted to start his own industry, and that was the real generosity and boldness.
To this end, he excitedly said to his mother, "I will do it boldly." The first thing is to raise $6,543,800+.
For a person, doing such a big business alone is really a big event and an adventurous undertaking. It's as difficult as sailing around the Cape of Good Hope or crossing the Sahara Desert alone, but Magat doesn't care. For his own career, he took risks and raised $6,543,800+construction funds everywhere.
The process of raising funds is full of difficulties, and the process of construction is also full of twists and turns. But this goal not only brought pressure to Magat, but also brought excitement and encouragement.
Where there is a will, there is a way. After more than a year of hard work, Magat's dream has finally come true. In Dallas, the first "Magat Dining Complex" was built, with surprisingly good business conditions and extremely hot business. He won the first big adventure in his life.
From then on, he focused more on catering and entertainment, and often pursued new adventures and greater achievements. His development strategy is becoming more and more clear, that is, based in Texas, adding a hotel every year. Spread to various places, gradually establish a regional network distribution system, and finally form a catering and entertainment kingdom.
In his spare time, he often looks at the place names on the map in a daze, thinking about where there is no suitable hotel for him. Soon, the Magat Hotel was established in all these places.
1929, another economic crisis swept the United States, and the east coast economy was almost paralyzed. However, ambitious Magat managed to build a comprehensive building with gorgeous restaurants, singing and dancing entertainment places in Las Vegas, which was 29 stories high and soared into the sky. On the opening day, more than 654.38 million people came to watch the ceremony, which caused a great sensation at that time.
After 20 years of unremitting efforts and painstaking management, the Magat Hotel Empire was formally born.
When a new industry is emerging, people flock to it, but they still move towards their own goals and regard it as their lifelong pursuit of expansion and development. It really takes some courage and boldness.
Magat is like this. When everyone was exploring for oil, he did not hesitate to burn his bridges and borrowed $654.38 million+$00,000 to open up new opportunities for success in industries abandoned by others, and finally succeeded and realized his original dream of life.
Here, we can see that to achieve any goal, we must work hard and struggle for a long time. Any idea that you can succeed without hard work is against scientific rationality.
A person without a clear goal is like a ship without a helmsman, drifting forever and only reaching the beach of disappointment, failure and frustration. Lewis Walker, former chairman of the American Association of Financial Advisers, was interviewed by reporters and talked about the basis of a sound investment plan. The reporter asked, "What makes people unable to succeed?" Walker replied, "vague goals." The reporter asked Walker to explain further. He said, "I asked you a few minutes ago, what is your goal?" You said you hoped to have a cabin on the mountain one day. This is a vague goal, but the problem is that' one day' is not clear enough, because if it is not clear enough, there is little chance of success. If you really want to buy a small house on the mountain, you must first find out the mountain and find out the present value of the small house you want, and then consider inflation and find out how much the house is worth in five years. Then you must decide how much money to save every month to achieve this goal. If you really do this, maybe you can have a cabin on the mountain in the near future, but if you just talk about it, your dream may not come true. Dreams are pleasant, but vague dreams without actual action plans are just delusions. "
The great philosopher von Hayek said: "If we set more limited goals, be more patient and be more modest, then we can actually make faster progress and get twice the result with half the effort;" If we are proud of the transcendental wisdom and insight of our generation, then we will do the opposite and get twice the result with half the effort. "
With a goal, even the smallest thing you are doing will become meaningful. At work, employees often lose their goals, making work boring and life meaningless. After writing down a goal for yourself, the goal plays a role in two ways: it is evidence of your efforts and a spur to you. The target gives you a visible shooting target. When you strive to achieve these goals, you will feel a sense of accomplishment. For many people, setting and achieving goals is like a game. As time goes by, you achieve one goal after another, and then your way of thinking and working will gradually change.
Smart people will draw a route at first, and then start from the present position according to the route drawn in advance, and slowly reach the position they want to reach through their own efforts. In this process, he will set many small goals and actively strive to achieve those short-term goals, because this can be completed in a relatively short time. Whenever he achieves a small goal, he will feel that he has made progress and will be full of interest; Rest in the same place for a while, summon up energy again, erect a second goal again, and then continue to move there.
Napoleon once said, "If a man doesn't know where he is going, he won't go very far." The last big goal in life is always far away, and I'm afraid I can only see it vaguely at first. Nevertheless, this highest goal can bring you an eternal direction. As long as you stick to this direction, choose and skillfully walk in different environments, you will eventually reach the end of success.