"In life as in football, you won't go far, unless you know where
the goalposts are"
-Arnold H. Glasgow
Thomas S. Monson tells the following true story:
I remember a time when driving to my home years ago, I approached the entrance to Interstate 15. At the on-ramp I noticed three hitchhikers, each one of whom carried a homemade sign that announced his desired destination. One sign read “Los Angeles,” while a second carried the designation “Boise.” However, it was the third sign that not only caught my attention, but also caused me to reflect and ponder its message. The hitchhiker had lettered not Los Angeles, California, nor Boise, Idaho, on the cardboard sign he held aloft. Rather, his sign consisted of but one word and read simply “Anywhere.” (Thomas S. Monson, “Which Road Will You Travel?,” Ensign, Mar 1991, 2)
Christopher Argueta
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You have to set a goal for yourself to hat you want to achieve.Sports would not be succcessful if there was no goal,like the basket,or net to score.Football players try to determine how hard and high they need to kick the ball to score,they don't just kick and hope it goes in.So determine what you need to do to achieve your goals,and know where your goal posts are.
Basically to know where you're going is the first step in life. You have to know what you're going to do in your life because if you don't you won't succeed. Even people that choose the wrong set goals. now thats up to us to figure out if we want to set goals to choose the wrong or right. for example, lets say you take some law enforcement classes. You have the options of using your skills to do wrong or to get a good job. You have to think what benefits you and sometimes what benefits others around you.
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I really like this quote. It inspires me a lot to do many things in life. It inspires me to set my goals. To set my goals so that I have something to reach for in life. My goals will be the ones that guide me throughout my life. If you don't have goals, then you will go nowhere in life. Life will choose your future and you will not like it.
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You Need To Know Where You Are Going With You Life Or Else Its Pointless! If You Don't Know Where Your Going Then Your On A Steady Path To Nowhere. You Need To Know Where Your Going In Life And How To Get There Accordingly!
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Don't be confused with things or choices you want to make, as long as you choose the right you'll be good. choose the right all the time and anything you do will go good. as long as you choose the best and right for yourself. if you don't know what way to go, just see which way is going to be better and is right for you.
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Having goals is very very important in life. If is important because it makes a road for you to travel in an reach that goal. If you have no goals then you will travel in random directions and do random things that eventually will get you no where. No matter if your goals are short term or long term, it's still good to have them because that allows you to stay focused on the thing you set out to do. Goal also challenge you and there will be some obstacles in your way but never turn back and always keep going forward and through the obstacles. At the end when you reach that goal, it will be all worth the effort!! =)
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I agree with this statement. In football in order to win or to get a good called you have to gain yards or score a touchdown. If life would be like this I guess it would be hard cause not everyone knows what they going to do in life. And other by going to school are gaining yards until the day the graduate thats when they scored there touchdown. The bariors in life are the other team trying to stop us.
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These quotes are very true. for example i play basketball in the school basketball team and i've set a lot of goals before season and i've set goals that i have already reach them for the simple fact that i have done the three steps like in the presentation or done something similar to that and it really makes me proud after reaching a goal that i have made myself, and all it took was effort and not giving up, and of course CTR. people sometimes also set goals and never reach them because they don't know what there capable of doing and they just give up. im still at goals that haven't got to them yet but if i continue doing the right and working hard i know im go to reach my goals. To reach your goals you got to word hard have patients persistence and choose the right 24/7.
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i agree with this quote that sometimes we don't know where to go. Plan for your future so you may know where to go. Its like having a map when you plan a head. so set your righteous goals and be a academic champion
like Mr. Haymore. CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!!!!!!
I agree with this quote. In order to get somewhere you have to set goals. If would be really hard if you don't. When you set your goals should try to accomplish them one step at a time. I think that well when you set goals you become more successful because you know what you want but it really is up to you to be persistent and achieve those goals. It is very important though, to be very careful and choose goals that will benefit you instead of hurt you. Setting goals and achieving goals is part of being an academic champion. So set good and beneficial goals and try your best to achieve them. CHOOSE THE RIGHT!
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i think by choose the right you will make the right think and by following the right way you will get their faster then going anther way just to make the bad chose
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TO HAVE GOALS YOU HAVE TO WANT SOMETHING SO YOU COULD GO AND GET IT BUT YOU WON'T STOP INTO YOU GET IT !! ( CTR )
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Without goals, your never know where you're going to end up at. Even the little goal could turn out to something bigger and better than you expected it to if you work hard and long on it.
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this quote is saying that we need to achieve are goals and be successful in life. also some people fail to achieve their goals and choose the wrong track. the other thing is go for your dreams you could achieve all your goals you have in mind.and you have to work hard to be a better person in life. so always choose the right track CTR ;)
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Goals is something the you decide to accomplish of you doing the best of you to you could make the goal come true but sometimes you have a goal the have a obstacle then you give up doing what you want to do and you start thinking or looking for another thing the you like to do to make a another goal but are some people the accomplish the other goal.
ReplyDeleteBut sometimes you demonstrated the if you give up one because you have any obstacle you will give up in any obstacle in any goals the you want to accomplish and you will never accomplish any goals to success in your life.JONATAN O. BLOCK1.
In order to know where your heading to you are suppose to know where it will lead what kind of places will it take you and what kind of exciting new things will you learn from it. It is good to know where your going to take your first step, into succeeding. Best by choosing the right<3
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Blankita U.
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This quote is true because if you don’t know where you are going then what are you doing. If you are heading toward your goal then you should already know where to go. You should know where to go so you wont have to figure it out later. And by knowing now then you are set so you don’t have to struggle for it.
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What I believe this quote is saying is that you need to know where you are heading in life in order to be successful at what you are doing. For example, if you attending a dance class and you do not pay attention to the lesson then you will not know the routine being taught. As in football, you can be in the game but if you do not know what way you are scoring then you will not be able to win the game. Pay attention in whatever it is that you are doing and Choose the Right.
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You have to set a goal in your life you want to achieve.Sports would not be succcessful if there was no goal, like the basket, or net to score. Football players try to determine how hard and high they need to kick the ball to score,they don't just kick and hope it goes in. So determine what you want to achieve, and know where the basket is at and make nothing but net.
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I Also agree with this quote. I think that everyone will go far if you choose the right! (: I also think that you need too know where your heading too first before you make any mistakes always be an academic champion!
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i think that once you know what you are going to do in life as a career choice you will go in that direction until you aquire the satisfaction of acomplishment. You wont go anywhere unless you know where you want to head youself upon that direction.When there are many different options the best one is the one that interest you most and the one that would not disturb your consentration.Every person should plan a career choice and go for the impossible.
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Choose the right path is what this quote is saying. Avoid the wrong path by learning how to distinguish which is good and which is bad. For example, if you are in not sure whether to go to school or go shopping with a friend thats in town for one day what will you do? I would choose the right and go to school. I think that you have to pen your eyes when you come across obstacles because those little things can change your life forever.
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you won't get far because you have no real destination your just gonna keep running on and on because there is no goal to achieve. but when there is a goal to achieve like football they have a touchdown which is where the goal post are. and in life your goal is to get a good job and finish school. just like football their goal is to score as many touchdowns as they can and win the game and go to the super bowl. so in other life is like football in many ways more than anybody can think.
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I agree with this quote because if you have no goal in life you will just wander about. You need to have a goal in life something to work for, something that you can try your hardest to accomplish. With out that then theirs no motivation for your existence. I wonder how can someone wake up in the morning with out having a reason to? Goals are very important their the reason why people put so much effort in what they do.
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When you have goals you are trying to achieve. You have to know how to get to them. You have to visualize the path you need to take to reach your goal. You have to set your mind in accomplishing the goal and do your best to achieve it. Thats what this quote is trying to tell us. You need to work and move out all the bad and distractions that will prevent you from achieve your goal.
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I agree because if you do not know where u wanna go and what you wanna be in live then your not going to get no where. So before you even go anywhere u need to know where you are headed to and choose a right path so you will succeed in life and always choose the right.
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Its always good to plan for your future. Setting goals and trying your very best to accomplish those goals. Its not going to be that easy. But you can't give up. you have to try your very best. If you fail then do it again.. you have to keep trying and trying until you get to where you want to be. don't be a failure. Set the right goals, goals that will get you far in life. Become someone important. Choose The Right by making righteous goals.
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its true, you will not go far unless you know where the goalposts are. to be an academic champion you must have goals and as well as back up goals. once you reach your goals you may want to strive for more goals, and that is where the back up goals come in. never give up on your goals and you will go far in life.
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set your goals so that you have something to reach for in life. goals is something you really want and accomplish just by doing your best, trying, practicing, or never giving up.go for your dreams and you could achieve all your goals you have in mind, so never give up in your dreams or goals.
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in this quote in order to reach to your goals you'll have to know were is it that your headed to . for example if you want to achieve your dreams faster you take your time so you can do it right and not wrong. and also theirs going to be obstacles that are gonna try to stop you but you take that and use it as a way to get to your goal. so always check what around you and choose the right paths!
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I think that what the quote says is true because without any goals you won't know where your headed to. It is better to know where you're going or what it is that you're doing next rather than being confused and trying to figure it out. That is why we need to set goals and expectations for ourselves so that we can be on the right course.
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you have to set goals for your self to get what you want. But first you have to know what you want and set small goals that will lead you to achieve your main goal.- Luis H. Block 2
ReplyDeletei know that if you make the right decision, you can go a long successful way. if you choose to go the opposite other than the correct, then you yourself already know that you WANT to make that obe choice and live life the hard way.
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this quote is saying that without goals you wont be able to be someone life, people should always choose the best for themselves.
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Have a goal in life. We must know what we want in life. Have a knowledge of how you would want your future to be like. Life is what we make of it. We must reach out for our goals or else we might not achieve our dreams. Never fall asleep in the road because that little nap can cause you a great disaster that you can go back and change.
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I agree with this quote because i think that what is trying to say that in life you first need to start off with a goal and not stop until you achieve it. But to achieve it you have to work hard and if you work hard you will achieve it faster than what you think.
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Many people are very shy at doing things, I'm one of them, But I know shyness won't get me anywhere. I need to put the shyness away and not worry or think what other people might say. You always have to know where your goals are and how you can get to them.
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I think what this quote is trying to say is that if you don't know were your going then you won't get anywhere in life. Its best to know your goal or future that way you can picture your life a little better. Its good to know where your heading to because thats the first step to your whole life make sure its a good path because if its a bad path you won't be successful so therefore make sure you choose the right.
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We got to figure out by our own selfs that which way you we want to go to. Also know how to get there and trying to figure it out and also you could work as a team which for some people will be better then not just doing it by them selfs, everyone thinks different and has different thoughts or some might be the same. But the main point is for you to know and to find out out which way you want to go to. Choose the right!
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In order to setup your own goal like for instance if you are in basketball you have good plays, shots alley loops and even dunks rebounds and have blocks to it make a basket each day you might end up a good successful time and win the championship. In baseball; you have to become a slugger and start practicing at swinging your own bat and your career homeruns.
ReplyDeleteMe I have my own goalposts made by I want to graduate through the right path and make good decisions to go to a community college and get to a university.I made a touchdown pass through the endzone.
David M.
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I agree goals are really important. These goals will determine what you're going to be in life. CRG: Choose Righteous Goals. You make your goals happen. You achieve them. HOW? By working hard on achieving them. For example if your goal is to graduate from high school, then work hard on getting good grades. I also like the slideshare about Steps On Setting And Achieving Goals. Some goals are hard to achieve others are easy and others take long to achieve, but no matter what you have to try and try to achieve it because if you do thats means you really want to do something in life. The third guy with the sign "Anywhere" in the story of Thomas S. Monson will probably stay there for his entire life because he doesn't know where to go. He doesn't know what's his goals. THE RIGHT!!!
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This reminds me of a post that you once uploaded about playing basketball with no hoops and its strikes me with the same message and i think that it was meant to be brought up again because recently i've lost track of my goals but thanks to this post i feel like its a wake-up call and a sign for me to get my goals in order because if i don't, then why am i even here haha thank you
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