Sachin Tendulkar of India is regarded as the “God of Cricket”, all due to his magnificent and mammoth records that he had made in cricket. He joined the sport of cricket at a very early age, probably when he was just a sixteen year old lad. After playing many lofty shots and massive innings and a consistent track record, when he finally retired from the game of cricket, he left behind him, huge and gigantic records for the generations to come. This all happened due to his targets that he had set in his life. And he is not alone in the list. If you look at all the successful persons on this planet earth, be it Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Michael Jackson, Jhonty Rhodes, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Mukesh Ambani, Barack Obama, Narendra Modi, Sam Walton, Amitabh Bacchan : they all have one thing in common. They set a target and keep on breaking their own records in their own respective fields.

Once a research was conducted on a group of students in the Harvard Business School, wherein the students were asked that how many students have set a clear goal for themselves in life. Out of those students, eighty-four percent of the students told that they had no clear goal for themselves right way. They had never thought of any, what they gonna be doing after five or ten years hence, in their lives. They had absolutely no idea about their goal.

Out of those students, there were some other thirteen percent of the students who told the researcher that they had a rough or vague idea about their goal, they somewhat knew what they were going to be after a decade or half or so; but the picture was not clear in their mind.

And the surprisingly remaining three percent of those students told that they had set a crystal-clear goal in their life. In fact, the goal was so clear that they had taken them in writing, perhaps somewhere on their laptop screens or their wardrobe top.

Time flew on its regular speed and ten years passed. After ten years, the same group of students were again caught up for the research to know where each of them had headed in their life.  The findings suggested that the thirteen percent of the students which had somewhat a blur or a vague picture about their goals were earning twice than those eighty-four percent which had no goals at all. And the remaining three percent of the students which said that they had crystal-clear and written goals for themselves were earning ten times than both the group of students. This, my dear friends, is the power of setting your goals and moving forward to achieving them.

So, my dear readers and leaders, just set a goal or target in front of you and the goal will act like a radar to your ship in your life and it will eventually take you to your destination.

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