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This is some personal background on goal focus.

I decided to engage myself in goal focus in late 2002 because I wanted to have more focus in my life and set and achieve more goals in all aspects of my life.

           
As a teenager, I attended a real estate sales/motivational seminar with my Mom around age 15.  In the seminar, I learned about goal setting and did the basics by writing down some 1 and 5 year goals.  I believe all of the goals came true.  I continued to do some goal-setting in my 20s and it was helpful and successful.

           
For some reason, still not clear, I stopped doing written goals after a few years in business, probably around the same time as life expanded with marriage and kids.

           
I have always been a big reader of non-fiction, including many business, sales, motivational, and psychology books.  Everything I read always pointed me back to the importance of goals and focus for life success.

           
Every dynamic successful person biography which I read points to writing down goals and having intense focus on goals for your life.  I agree with that simple concept.

           
In 2002, I read a few more books, attended a few seminars, and was exposed to a few more ideas via YEO and other groups. 

           
I decided that I lacked a clear focus.  I decided that I would restart my previous experience of goal setting.  I decided that I would try to do unusual things to achieve goal focus, which other people may find funny or laugh at.

           
I estimate that only 1 in 100 people do written annual goals for all aspects of their life.  Even fewer, perhaps 1 in 1,000, actually read those annual goals everyday and write monthly goals to continue to focus.  I wanted to be the 1 in 1,000 who seem to have good life balance, have little stress, much happiness, and achieve so much more in their life.

           
In December 2002, I joined my sister Vicki, who is also an entrepreneur, former business-owner and current Realtor in Colorado, at a real-estate sales/motivational seminar.  Same as about 30 years earlier!  Except this time, I had about 30 years of life experience.  We both emerged from seminar with a commitment to help coach each other and hold each other accountable to goal focus.

           
To further my own focus and to help share something with my YEO chapter, I offered to start a small YEO Goal Focus lunch group in December 2002.  About 10 people have participated in the last two years.  Many have told me that it has improved their life.

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Steve Kantor
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Lifebushido LLC
www.lifebushido.com