A goal is only as good as the ability to stick with it. Since the inception of motivational speakers, from people such as Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Norman Vincent Peale, to Zig Ziglar and Earl Nightingale, to more recent figures like Colin Powell, Paul Harvey, Joel Osteen and others, stadiums are consistently packed with tens of thousands of people yearning for answers that will give them some sense of direction and enhance the value and purpose of their lives.

Typically, these speakers have a central theme: For change to occur and good things to happen, you have to write down your goals, put them in a place where you can see them every day, and stick with them even during the most difficult times in your life. Many people keep them on their mirror; others slip them into their wallet or purse and read them on their way to work.

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