Hooman's Story

Goals are like candy.

To say I loved candy would be a gross misrepresentation of the facts. I have eaten enough candy for about 6 lifetimes. Sometimes I would over fill my mouth with so many pieces so I could get an overload of that candy taste. I am sure that obsession to candy helped me get into the worst shape of my life. I had another obsession I want to tell you about. That obsession was achieving goals. I couldn’t get enough of that amazing feeling that follows triumph and victory. If I set my mind to doing something, you could consider it done because I was not going to rest, until I pulled it off.

Settle, FOR WHAT?

I kept pushing myself to achieve more and more because the high from achieving my desired goal would only last so long. I couldn’t get enough. Like an addict, I needed to get more of my fix. This obsession was a good thing because it always pushed me to seek new challenges. At times I didn’t even possess the skills or the knowledge required to achieve my desired goals. I didn’t let that stop me. I knew that for years, people had been stretching their abilities to achieve results beyond their current capabilities. If they could do it, I knew I could do it.

Candy Goals

My obsession to goals was very similar to my obsession to candy. I had my favorite kind of candy, but that didn’t keep me from eating the different kinds. Just like there is all kinds of candy, there’s all kinds of goals. Here is a brief list of the different kinds of goals you can accomplish.

Daily Goals             Career Goals

Monthly Goals        Relationship Goals

6 Month Goals        Personal Goals

Yearly Goals           Parenting Goals

Lifetime Goals        Health Goals

5 Year Goals          Financial Goals

10 Year Goals        Social Goals

20 Year Goals        Traveling Goals

The reason I wanted to point out to you the various types of goals is to remind you that there are countless opportunities for you to improve your life on a daily basis. You must commit your life to constant and never ending improvement in every aspect of your life. Even small daily gains lead to drastic improvements over time. Whether its a small goal or a big goal you accomplish, the fact that you are achieving your goals will only cultivate you more success because you will be creating goal momentum in your life. Success brings more success. When I knock out one goal, I look for the next one and then its on to the next one.

Your Turn to Become The Candy Goal Monster

If you don’t have goals in your life, you don’t have a clear path. Without a clear path, who knows where you will end up. If you want to go through your life without a clear destination, go right ahead and take yourself to no man’s land. If you want to go to the promise land of Abundance Mountain, you need to know what your destination is, and you need a sound strategy on how you plan on getting there. Reset your mind of any negative thoughts or limiting beliefs that you may have. Focus your thoughts on the results that you desire and chase it with the fierce URGENCY OF NOW. Make a concrete commitment that you will do whatever it takes until you get there. Make sure you use any failure you experience as a stepping stone and not a stumbling block. Don’t ever listen to what a spirit sniper or a dream stealer says you can’t do. It only matters what you believe you can do.

Now is the time for you to become a goal slayer. Act like you are the CANDY GOAL MONSTER. You need to munch on goals like I used to munch on candy. You need to make winning your obsession.

Just remember, just like you climb Mount Everest one step at a time, you eat a giant candy goal one bite at a time. You can achieve anything you believe with power and control over your thoughts and actions. Take your passion and make it happen.

Hooman Hamzehloui 2010

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A Groundbreaking Idea Worth Billions

Have you ever had an idea for something new and innovative that you knew without a doubt that it was guaranteed to be a success? You visualized this idea in your head over a million times to the point where you knew everything there was to know about it forward and backwards? You even kept it a secret from everyone because you didn’t want anyone to steal your idea. You were just about to put your plan into action for your incredible idea and then suddenly you realize that someone beat you to the finish line? Has this ever happened to you? Don’t feel bad because I can assure you that this has happened to people all over the world countless times. I can also assure you that many of these ideas that people failed to take action on eventually ended up changing the world, making their owners millions, if not billions. Do you have a story like this where you should’ve, could’ve, would’ve? 

What was the Difference Between you and Them? 

Why was someone able to pull it off and not you? I can tell you why, that someone took the necessary actions to manifest their idea while you just sat around and let the idea occupy space in your head. Taking action is the foundational key to achieving any success. You can’t achieve any kind of success unless you take massive action towards its manifestation. 

What are you Afraid of? 

Walt Disney said, “All of your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.” What do you think some of the reasons were that prevented people from taking action on some of these awesome ideas? Its usually fear of failure. Most people don’t believe in their abilities to achieve extraordinary outcomes so they won’t even give it a try. If you are going to go through life and not even try to make your dreams come true then there really is no sense for you to live because what you are doing is just existing. 

The greatest risk is the one that you don’t take. Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. As I like to tell my clients, “Opportunity doesn’t go away, it just goes to someone else. Ask any successful businessperson and they will tell you, the secret to success in life is to be ready for opportunities when they present themselves. They will also tell you that opportunities usually come disguised in the shape of hard work and difficulty. So if they don’t appear to be on a silver platter, don’t get discouraged. You must have vision, determination, and a burning desire to succeed no matter what happens along the way. You must be committed to achieving the results that you desire no matter how many times you fail. You must stay flexible in your approach to achieving. If you don’t get the results that you desire, you must change your approach until you succeed.

Fear of criticism holds back many others who are terrified what others might think of their idea. They are usually terrified what their friends or family might think of them.

Great ideas often receive criticism and incredible opposition from mediocre minds. When Walt Disney was developing Disneyland, most of the people he talked to thought that it would be a financial disaster which would be closed and forgotten within a year. Imagine if Walt Disney would have listened to those dream stealers, he would have never blessed the world with the amazing multi billion dollar brand known as Disney. Remember, it is not what others believe you can achieve, it only matters what you believe you can achieve. 

The Greater the Idea, the More Difficult it Will be to Achieve Success.

When Thomas Edison was attempting to invent electricity, he was competing against some of the sharpest inventing minds in the world. It was a race to invent electricity, an invention that would change the world. Can you imagine the difficulties that these inventors were facing? They were guaranteed to meet failure along the way. Thomas Edison tested over 3,000 filaments before he came up with his version of a practical light bulb. Can you imagine how many people would have quit after trying 500 different kinds of filaments with no success? How many people would have quit after 2,000 different failures? No one would have said that they didn’t give it a valiant effort. However, Thomas Edison was a different kind of achiever. He would never quit until he achieved the results that he desired, no matter how many failures he experienced. Thomas Edison said, “Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.” Thomas Edison believed that many of life’s failures were experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 

You can Achieve Anything you Desire.

If you are trying to achieve something in life, you must stay committed to your desired outcomes. You must believe in your abilities to achieve the results that you desire. Failure should not be an option for you. Success must be your only option. You must keep on keeping on until you succeed. No one has ever achieved greatness without experiencing failure. It is a part of the success process. Everyone is created equal. What separates the achievers from the nonbelievers is the quality of their hearts and minds. You can achieve anything you desire if you believe in your abilities to achieve. You are what you think. With your thoughts you design your world. The question is, are you going to design your dream life, or are you going to design a life of mediocrity? It all depends on which one you want for yourself. I want an extraordinary life and I know you do too. Get infected with passion, because nothing extraordinary in the world has been accomplished without passion. Go after it with the fierce urgency of now. Don’t say you will do it one day, achieve it today. Don’t wait to be great, be great now. I know you can. Do you believe you can? 

Hooman Hamzehloui 2009

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