"Keep setting meaningful goals and pursue them vigorously. At the same time, appreciate what you have in your life right now."

— Dr. Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap

"Happy moods, no matter the source, lead people to be more productive, more likable, more active, more healthy, more friendly, more helpful, more resilient, and more creative. This means that positive emotions actually help us achieve our goals (reinforcing the feeling that we are working toward something important) as well as help us strive for meaning and purpose in life."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"Having goals in and of themselves is strongly associated with happiness and life satisfaction."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"Focus your finest efforts on the one or two goals that will make all the difference, instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals. Execution starts with focus."

— The 4DX Guys

"Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one's goals."

— Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results."

- James Clear, Atomic Habits

"Goals also provide long-term vision in our lives. We all need lots of powerful, long-range goals to help us get past short-term obstacles."

— Jim Rohn, The Jim Rohn Guides Complete Set

“Affirmations are one of the most effective tools for quickly programming your mind to become the person you need to be to achieve everything you want in your life. Affirmations allow you to design and then develop the mindset that you need to take any area of your life to the next level.”

- Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents

"Goals without discipline are wishes; discipline without clarity is aimless. The most successful business leaders have a clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality."

- Craig Ballantyne, The Dark Side of Discipline

“Decades of research involving over forty thousand participants has shown that people who set difficult and specific goals outperform people who set vague and non-challenging goals.”

- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits

"A goal without a plan is just a wish. A plan without action is just a dream."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"Goal setting provides focus, shapes our dreams and gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to take in order to get everything in life we desire."

- Jim Rohn, The Jim Rohn Guides Complete Set

"Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction."

- Caroline Adams Miller, Creating Your Best Life

"Recent surveys reveal that over 90% of people don’t know what they want in life. And if you don’t know where you want to be, then it’s impossible to create a roadmap to get there. That’s why creating the North Star — your guiding light, your roadmap for success, your step-by-step blueprint — is so important. This is about more than just goal setting. It’s about creating the perfect vision for your Perfect Life. And with that in place, you’ll finally be able to achieve your wildest dreams and overcome the temptations, procrastination, and obstacles in your way."

- Craig Ballantyne

"If an outside observer watched you for a week, how serious would they say you are about achieving your goals?"

- Darren Hardy

"Do something every day on your most important goal. Do something seven days a week, thirty days a month. Never let a day go by where you don’t do something that moves you at least one step forward toward something that is important to you."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

- James Allen

"Goals are mileposts along the road of life; purpose is the direction the road takes."

- John Assaraf and Murray Smith, The Answer

"Ask yourself whether the goals you have set are equal to your potential."

— Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule

"An exciting and freeing thought experiment: If you ignored the limits, and assumed you could do anything, what is it you would do with your life?"

— Matt Higgins, Burn the Boats