UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF GOAL SETTING

These astute observations plus the Million Dollar Personal Success Plan by entrepreneur Paul J Meyer, who founded the Success Motivation Instituite, Waco, TX, actually represented my nascent journey into developing personal mastery, while participating in their Dynamics of Goal Setting program, back in the late seventies.

I was then a young manager, in the late twenties, working in a large German firm in Singapore. I was also just promoted from the position of an engineering executive.

It was from this point of my life that I came to know Dr Maxwell Maltz and his Psycho-Cybernetics classic.

Around the same time, I then got involved in reading up Napoleon Hill's work, particularly his Law of Success and Think & Grow Rich, among other popular success literature, mainly from the United States, during that era.

In retrospect, all of them started my deep personal interest in pursuing personal excellence.

Without the valuable lesson takeaways from all of them, the insightful knowledge acquisitions from further participation in numerous workshops, and the exchange of ideas and insights with myriad like-minded professionals along the way, I wouldn't have survived and sustained the almost quarter of a century in the corporate world and another 15 years of running my own business.

In particular, from the personal development angle, Paul J Meyer, Dr Maxwell Marlz, Napoleon Hill, Og Mandino, David Schwartz, Dale Carnegie, Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn, Dr Win Wenger, Tony Robbins, just to name a few, had been tremendously great influences.

From the professional development angle, there were far more notable influences, and I would just name Dudley Lynch and Paul Kordis, for their published writings, especially their Strategy of the Dolphin and Code of the Monarch, were among the first to initiate my intellectual foray.

I must admit, though, that one quintessential common thing really stood out among all of them: the imperativeness and urgency of goal striving and the power of the human mind in creating success.

Suffice to say, it has had been a very long ride, with fond memories and sweet reminiscences, indeed.