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What Goes into Achievement
Here's a favorite quote from Jack Nicklaus:

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation."

I used to look at success as a destination. I used to expect that there would be some big moment when suddenly I realized, "I made it!"

I don't look at it that way any more. I've come to see it more like Jack Nicklaus said: steadily raising my level of aspiration and expectation.

Success is a gradual journey. You don't arrive there. You journey through there in an ongoing journey of life. The more you achieve, the higher you raise your goals.

I don't think, though, that raising our aspirations is even the key to success. I think the key is the expectation part.

It's not enough to WANT more. It's when you recognize that you can bring those higher goals into reality by what you do that you really start to achieve success.

Waiting for success to come to you doesn't work. You have to work for it. You take those goals that you want and figure out how to bring them about. And once you start seeing that you can do that, it becomes that much easier.

Rather than trusting to luck or fate or whatever, you see that you can take the next step, and the next one, and the next one, in bringing those goals about.

Take that journey, even if you don't feel you're quite ready for it. Take that journey and discover what you can come to expect from yourself. Take that journey and discover that you're finding success long before you reach any destination.
Jeff

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