Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

-RUMI

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How do I change the World?

I liked this quote by Rumi when I read it. It reminded me of me when I was younger. When we are young, we think we are clever. We often have this vision that we can change the world. We want to be the one to change the world. We know just what to do. We have these great ideas and dreams.

And we need to do that. We need to have those dreams. We need to believe we can change the world. We need to have the young dreamers. We need to believe these dreams. Why?

Because as the quote in Season 2 - Episode 1 so passionately stated at the end

"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

"Today, I am wise", Rumi goes on to say. As we get older, we tend to get wiser. My wife and I have had 4 Golden Retrievers. As they got older they started getting grey hairs on around their eyes and on their muzzles. We called the grey hairs their "wise hairs".

We have taken the failures, the lessons in life, the challenges we have overcome and have molded them into a sculpture, known as wisdom.

What is Rumi saying in this last part of his quote? "Today I am wise, so I am changing myself"

Is he saying - I cannot change the world therefore, I must change myself to conform to the world?

Or, is he saying - I must change myself and in that change, I can change the world.

What do you think?  Go to our show notes page at Goal Getting Podcast dot com / s2e3 and tells us which of these Rumi was talking about. Should you give up trying to change the world and just change yourself to conform to what the world is? Or, should we concentrate on changing ourselves and in that change their could be the spark to change the world.

Are you wise? Do you have something you want to change about yourself that will inspire others? Will that change you make inspire you to do something more and the subsequent changes be what changes the world?

This season we are talking about my #WorkOnWellness goals. I will be sharing How I lost 40 Pounds in 16 Weeks and the current goal to get my A1C numbers below 6.0 and my weight to 185 pounds.

Just to give you a representation of my weight at the top when I hit 296 pounds, the most I have ever weighed, I included a picture on the show notes page at Goal Getting Podcast.com / s2e3.

In today's episode, we are going to start reviewing The HOW of the 3 Keys to Goal Setting Success. The How consists of these two of the 9 Steps To Successful Goal Achievement:

* Set An Action Plan

* Measure It / Track It

With all goals, there must be action. There is something you must do in order to achieve the goal. We must be able to quantify these steps and track them.

Tom Peters, well-known Author and Speaker says:

What Get's Measured Gets Done."

We must track the steps we are working on to ensure the completion of those steps. Keeping track of the progress of these action steps will assist us in keeping up motivated. They will keep us going in the right direction toward our goals.

Last episode we discuss The WHAT. Setting Clearly Defined, Written Goals.

Today we will be discussing The HOW - Creating the action plan with specific actions you must complete to Get The Goal You Set.

The HOW contains two parts. The HOW section on the Goal Getting Worksheet and the Goal Setting Maintenance Worksheet.