How’s Your Flight Plan?

I recently read a great book by Brian Tracy, titled “Flight Plan – The Real Secret of Success.”  I found this to be a very good book, reminding me of many things that I’ve heard before, but tend to forget in the everyday business of life.

Achieving one’s goals, similar to flying an airplane, requires constant adjustment.  Tracy points out that when you fly in any airplane, headed for any destination, you will be off course 99% of the time.  The same is absolutely true of life.

According to the author, the three most important steps to success in life are:

1.     Decide exactly what you want, write it down, and make a plan to achieve it.  Decide upon your destination.

2.     Take action.  Launch toward your goal.  Step out in faith.  Take the first step with no guarantee of success.   Take off on your journey.

3.     Be prepared to make continual course corrections every hour and every day of you life as you fly toward your destination.  Expect an inevitable, unavoidable, and unbroken series of problems, difficulties, reversals, setbacks, and crises every day and week of your life.  Since you cannot avoid them, your aim must be to respond to them effectively.

Make a decision right now to set your goal, take off, and make continual course corrections until you achieve all that is possible for you.

Thanks!  Brett Blair – Sanford Rose Associates, Brighton – Executive Search.  Specialists in the search and placement of professionals in the automotive manufacturing world.