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Drop Your Goals

And Manage Your Life!

A plan for giving back the

quality your life deserves.

By Michel Fortin

Drop Your Goals And Manage Your Life!

By Michel Fortin

Preface

ave you ever felt overwhelmed? Have you ever

tried to accomplish as much as possible but felt

you were going nowhere? Well, you’re not alone.

I felt like that many times in my life. And today,

unfortunately, many people who follow this “do-as-much-

as-you-can” philosophy never get to enjoy the really im-

portant things or the things that really matter.

Drop Your Goals and Manage Your Life! is a book

dedicated to those kinds of people. It has served me well

and I have practically turned my life around because of it.

However, the ideas discussed in this book are not born

yesterday. Benjamin Franklin, Jesus, the Buddha, Socra-

tes, and Aristotle have also taught them in their own

times. However, it seems that they are now needed more than ever.

Enjoy the book. But most important, enjoy your life. To me, that’s the true

meaning of life. If the book has helped you as much as it has helped me, please

drop me a note. Write me or email me at michel@successdoctor.com . I welcome

any comments or suggestions, even those I can use in future works.

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Drop Your Goals And Manage Your Life!

By Michel Fortin

Table of Contents

Preface................................................................................................................................. 2

Successfulness Defined....................................................................................................... 6

You are a “You” Potentiality .............................................................................................. 9

How to Become Successful .............................................................................................. 11

The Inner You ................................................................................................................... 14

The Connection................................................................................................................. 16

Lack and Limitation.......................................................................................................... 18

Goal Achievement ............................................................................................................ 20

New Time Management.................................................................................................... 23

Change in Perception ........................................................................................................ 25

Quality of Life................................................................................................................... 27

Corner Cutting .................................................................................................................. 29

Your Self-esteem .............................................................................................................. 31

Calculating Your Risks ..................................................................................................... 33

Dealing with Fear.............................................................................................................. 35

Taking the Time ................................................................................................................ 37

True Motivation ................................................................................................................ 39

Positive Productivity......................................................................................................... 42

The Power of Alignment................................................................................................... 44

Luck and Motivation......................................................................................................... 47

Self Management .............................................................................................................. 49

Natural Laws..................................................................................................................... 51

Growing in the Right Direction ........................................................................................ 53

From the Inside Out .......................................................................................................... 55

Be True to Yourself .......................................................................................................... 57

Your True Priorities .......................................................................................................... 62

Your Values ...................................................................................................................... 65

The G.O.A.L. Method....................................................................................................... 67

Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 70

About the Author .............................................................................................................. 72

Appendix: The G.O.A.L. Method Worksheets ................................................................. 74

Want More? ...................................................................................................................... 78

Drop Your Goals And Manage Your Life!

By Michel Fortin

Your Successfulness

“When we think of failure, failure will be ours. If we remain undecided,

nothing will ever change. All we need to do is to want to achieve some-

thing great, and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we

think will come about.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

W In fact, I used to be a go-getting, goal-setting, efficiency-minded, try-to-

get-as-many-things-done-as-possible type of person; the type that never seems to

have enough time for anything. And I do mean “used to be,” since one day the

answer to that million-dollar question became as clear as crystal.

You see, success is who you are right now at this moment, regardless of

where you’re going, what you do, or what you have. This might seem a bit ab-

stract to you, but the truth is that success is not what you think it is.

Since time immemorial, the word “success” has been long equated with

get-it-done-yesterday kinds of people. Especially in the entrepreneurial world in

which we are emerging where business success has taken over what we used to

call “job security,” success is highly over-hyped, excessively overtaxed, greatly

misinterpreted, and oftentimes frustrating if not self-effacing.

We now live in a world that encourages a results-oriented, “get-to-the-

point” mentality while at the same time we see some all too common themes ap-

pearing in our society. For instance, the family unit is slowly disintegrating. Peo-

ple are getting sicker and sicker. And crime statistically increases with every

passing year where they used to be low. These things, of course, are not success.

Strangely, success in some areas seems to parallel failures in others. As

time management guru Alec McKenzie once pointed out, we are now seeing in

today’s culture the rise of many “successful” failures.

I do agree that success can be measured in many ways. For instance, a per-

son may have achieved business success. Another may have won some important

competition. A corporate “soldier” may have earned a senior executive promo-

tion. And another may work long arduous hours in trying to make a living and

feel productive by accomplishing many tasks.

hat’s true success? What’s real, authentic, fulfilling success? Is it

achievement? Is it made of goals, efficiency, and deadlines? Is it the

kind that says, “The level of one’s success is measured by the depth of

one’s wallet”? I’ve asked myself that deeply intriguing question for many years.

Drop Your Goals And Manage Your Life!

By Michel Fortin

But in all of these cases, once they’ve achieved so much some people fail

in other areas, such as their marriages, the relationship with their kids, their health

(mental or physical), or, paradoxically, their businesses.

While less tragic but worst, some stop and wonder where their time has

gone or why they are not happy with what they have achieved up to now. They’ve

climbed the ladder of success and, as Lao Tse once said, “Discover that their lad-

der has been leaning against the wrong wall.”

Some achieve success and ask, “Why am I not happy?” “Where has my

time gone?” or, “I’ve worked hard (or all my life) for this?” In essence, outer suc-

cess can be (and most often is) the catalyst in creating a lot of inner turmoil. This

is why the kind of success I’m referring to, this true authentic success, is not what

a great many people think.

For instance, real success is not about achieving more, doing more, or get-

ting more. While that’s the way most people measure success, those things are not

real for the measurement does not constitute the essence. Now, I know that some

of you may not agree with me, especially if you’re a goal-oriented, achievement-

minded type of person.

“Goals are essential to success!” is a rebuttal I’m often given in my semi-

nars. I do not mean to contradict and I certainly agree that goals are essential for

external success. I used to be a high achieving salesperson with a daily planner

the size of my suitcase. With notes, to-do lists, project planners, goals, and date

tabs protruding the dog-eared pages of my day-timer, I was always doing more or

taking on more than what I can handle.

My defining moment, you might say, was when I lost everything; yes,

every major thing in my life. During one cold fall weekday in 1995, everything

happened in what seemed to be a matter of hours. The repo man came to take

away my beautiful, fully-loaded Honda. I was evicted from my three-bedroom

townhouse. My wife packed her bags, took my daughter, and left me. And then,

the lowest of the lows for any high achiever, I was forced into bankruptcy.

I had to start all over… Literally. Whether this has happened to you or not

is irrelevant. But if you have goals, live constantly in the future, and always seem

to never have enough time, then after you’ve given me the privilege to explain

myself you will probably discover that this book may in fact be one that you des-

perately need. Maybe your whole outlook on success will change. I hope it will.

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