Many of us have at one time or another had goals we wanted to achieve but unfortunately most of us don’t achieve them. Of course the leadership Guru’s preach you must have goals because if you don’t have a destination you won’t get there. They are right but unfortunately only partly right.

The reason most people don’t accomplish their goals is because their goals are not who they are. Let me explain. If you were an Olympic runner how would you ‘be’ or live your life? You would ‘be’ a person who trained many hours per day, had a very disciplined workout regiment and breathed and slept Olympic running. Your passion would be that of an Olympic runner.

If you were one of the best known investors in the world you would ‘be’ like Warren Buffet. You would read, research and learn everything you could about investing everyday and you would ‘be’ passionate about doing it.

If you wanted to be successful at broadcasting for example you could ‘be’ like Oprah Winfrey. You could breath, talk and ‘be’ like someone who loves to interview people.

I will always remember a couple that were on the Oprah show years ago that were having marital troubles because the husband thought the wife should go back to work to help the family out financially. The wife’s excuse for not working was she wanted to be a stand up comedian but just hadn’t got her break yet. By the way they had been having this issue in their marriage for several years.

So here is the wife with the goal to be a stand up comedian and no money coming in. Did the wife achieve her goal? Well before I tell you the answer let me tell you what Oprah did next on her show. She said to the wife here is your chance to get some good exposure and asked her to do her routine.

Well there she was the spotlight on her and her big chance and she did not even have a routine after all these years of talking about being a stand up comedian. She did not reach her goal because she was not ‘being’ and doing what stand up comedians do and that is practice and perform their craft because that is who they are and what they have a passion for.

To achieve wealth, health and success you must be and do what wealthy, healthy and successful people do and think. You must ‘be’ that successful person often for an undermined amount of time before the material things of success actually show up in your life. If you don’t be that successful person in your mind your goals will never be reached because you are not being and doing what a successful person does and that is why goals don’t work for most people.

You become what you think about. Be careful what you think.