The One Goal by Thibaut Meurisse is a strong guide to turn dreams into real results. Developing from the idea by Napoleon Hill that a goal is just a dream with a deadline, Meurisse goes further, giving a detailed program to ensure that these goals are reached.
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The main premise of the book is refreshingly quite simple: focus on just one goal at a time. According to Meurisse, one risks being too thinly spread between many ambitions, resulting in diluted effort and often failure. In its place, concentration on one major goal reorients how people use energy and resources, lending toward success.
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One of the notable themes in this book is getting a goal that goes deep down to your being. Meurisse writes about the need to set up goals aligned to personal values and passions and cautions against goals that have one flying superficially to them. This intrinsic drive brings persistence, which he sees as central to succeeding in long-term goals. Success is a process that requires persist effort during inevitable ups and downs.
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Meurisse offers quite pragmatic tips on how to keep the focus and persistence going. He encourages the basic splitting of the main goal into manageable small tasks, which gives one belief and more force. This work is to be done every day, as much as possible. Each chapter ends with an action step; therefore, setting the structure to support this approach in the book.
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Very valuable is the section on "Creating An Extraordinary Mindset," with strategies for developing mental toughness to stay committed to one's goal.
It is an extremely fast read, rich with actionable insights. Its real value will be in applying its principles. Meurisse does make a very valid point that reading itself about goal-setting is not going to help in achieving them; it is when the strategies are implemented that one gets results. Any person serious about major life goals attainment needs to read this.
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I have to take it slow with this one and read it slowly and apply to life to ensure I am practicing what I am reading.