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"Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve"! - Tim Ferriss.

Try that one on for size! I am really enjoying Tim's book and what he has to say! As I pondered the quote above and listened to Tim better explain why he believes the statement is true totally makes sense. When it comes to the topic of goal setting and chasing dreams, nine times out of ten, we set goals that are for the most part safe and will hopefully bring some sort of happiness to our lives. Although that may not be the case for some, the majority would agree. So as a result, the goals that we set are normally mediocre. Tim drops a statistic that 99% of Americans believe that they are NOT capable of achieving great things! Wow, what a staggering statistic. This is why most goals diverge from unrealistic which leads to excitement and settle for attainable, mediocre goals.

So TIm challenges one to set unrealistic, unreasonable goals to get the blood flowing! Just for a second, try on the thought that we create goals to add happiness to our life. What if happiness was equal to boredom? How would that change things? What if happiness was just the status quo that got us through our day? More than likely we would become stuck, if we already aren't, with where we are at. Why is that? Probably because we are lacking excitement. So what if we started to set unrealistic goals that created excitement and energy to our lives? How would that change things? What if chasing our passions and dreams equalled excitement?

One of Tim's challenges to a class at Princeton was to contact one of these three people and to get them to answer any question of their choice. He said, Whoever can do this, I will provide a round trip ticket around the world! The three people were, J-Lo, Bill Clinton and J.D. Salinger. Out of the 20 people that took the challenge, none of them achieved it due to different excuses. Which I think we can all relate to. The follow year threw out the same challenge. 7 people completed the task by contacting people like, George Bush, CEO of Disney, Comcast, Google and HP. And what's crazy is that they all completed the task in 48 hours! Pretty neat in my opinion!

So what if we took risks like that in our daily life, what would come from it? What if you could ask any person in the world a question of any choice that you think would add value to your life, what would ask them? What if passion equalled excitement? What ideas come to mind for you personally that brings excitement to your life and makes you get butterflies in your stomach? Are you going to let the excuses stand in your way? Are you going to be like the other 99% of the people in the world that don't believe that they can achieve great things? Or are you going to stop believing the lies that everyone is better than you and take a chance? Even if worst case scenario comes true, at least you are failing big! The first step to living an uncommon life is making uncommon decisions (in an appropriate ethical manner of course). So lets live uncommon lives!

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