Set another goal

When all goals are accomplished, your honeymoon is over.

Nick Alexander's most aspired goal was to go to college. He grew up in an orphanage. It was an old-fashioned orphanage where the orphans worked from five in the morning to sunset, and the food was poor and insufficient.

Nick was a smart kid: so smart that he graduated from high school at the age of fourteen. Then he went into society to make a living.

The only job he could find was operating a sewing machine in a tailor shop. For fourteen years he worked in that environment, and then the shop became unionized. Wages were raised and working hours shortened.

Nick Alexander is lucky enough to be married to a girl who is willing to help him achieve his dream of going to college. But things are not easy. Not long after they got married, in 1931, the store began to lay off employees, so the young couple decided to go out on their own. They pooled their savings together and opened "Alexander Real Estate Company." Nick's wife, Theresa, even sold her engagement ring to increase their small capital.

Within two years, business was booming, so Theresa insisted that Nick go to college. At the age of thirty-six, he received his degree—the first milestone he reached in his life.

Nick returns to the real estate business - becoming his wife's business partner. They have a new goal - a house on the beach. Finally, they too realized that dream.

Did the couple just sit back and relax like this? Oh, no. They have a little girl to educate. If they could pay the installments on their commercial building and turn the building into apartments for rent, the rent income could pay for their children's college expenses. Because they were determined to achieve this goal, they finally did it.

Mrs. Alexander told me that they are currently working on their retirement savings. Now Nick is managing his career alone, while Teresa is taking care of her family.

The Alexanders lived a busy, happy, and successful life because they always had a goal in front of them to give their efforts a direction. They have discovered the truth of George Bernard Shaw's words: "I hate success. Success is to accomplish what one does in the world, just as the male spider is stabbed to death by the female as soon as the fertilization is completed. I like to make continuous progress and the goal is eternal. In front, not behind.”

Many people go through life in a daze because they have no real goals. They only live in one dimension and live one day at a time. Those who gain the most from life are those who are highly alert, actively waiting for opportunities, and seeing them as soon as they come. They all have a definite goal.

In the long-term plan, it is best to divide every five years into stages. You can plan like this, "In five years, Jim will have his college diploma and be ready for promotion; in ten years, he will be promoted to junior supervisor."

Ann Hayward, mentioned in the previous chapter, quotes one of her clients as saying: "I hope my husband never becomes sluggish because of his own complacency. We have been married five years, and each year has a goal—first of all. , it was his degree, then further education, then a year of freelance writing work, and now his own business. As soon as he told me he had enough money, enough education, enough experience, I knew the honeymoon It has ended."

As the old saying goes: “No matter what you hold in your hands, don’t forget the final result, then you will not lose anything.

After achieving one goal, immediately set another goal. This is a successful life pattern. Therefore, we need to cooperate with our husbands and constantly pursue new goals.