The on Target Success Plan

By Dr. Mark A. Snow

We all want to succeed. There are many teachers on the subject of success, and all of them agree on the philosophy. Now with the On-Target Success Plan, the reader will not only better understand those philosophies but will also have a simple tool to apply them in their daily life to help them achieve the greatest success possible in the shortest amount of time. All the teachings on the subject, up to now, have hit all around the target; but with this tool, the reader will hit the bull’s-eye. Simple in its application yet powerful in its effect, the On-Target Success Plan will make the user more successful than they could be by any other means.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664142145

Dr. Mark A. Snow

Dr. Mark A. Snow has been a student of success since his early teen years. He has studied the writings of some of the greatest philosophers on the subject of success and has utilized many of their techniques. Through his efforts, Dr. Snow has been able to distill all those teachings into a fine-tuned daily tool to help the reader achieve the greatest success possible. Written with life stories and anecdotes to illustrate principles, Dr. Snow skillfully guides and teaches the reader how to apply these principles of success in their own lives.

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Rev. date: 11/11/2020

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Contents

The principles taught in this book will only help you so far as you apply them

Step 1    Set Goals Based on Your True Desires

Step 2    Allow No Limits

Step 3    Put Them in Categories of Short-, Mid-, and Long-Term Goals

Step 4    Prioritize the One-Year Goals

Step 5    Set Deadlines

Step 6    Map out a Daily and Weekly Action Plan to Achieve the First Goal

Step 7    Read Your One-Year Goals Three Times Each Day

Step 8    When Your Primary Target Is Achieved, Map out an Action Plan for the Next Goal

Step 9    Every Six Months, See Which of the Goals on Your List Can Now Move into the One-Year Goal Category

THE PRINCIPLES TAUGHT

IN THIS BOOK WILL

ONLY HELP YOU SO FAR

AS YOU APPLY THEM

A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER takes a fall and, other than being scraped up badly, is not seriously injured. Then he looks up and begins the ascent again. That is called success because there is no success without occasional failure, regrouping, and beginning again.

Over the next sixty seconds, write down your top five short-term goals. Go! If you were not able to come up with your top five, then you need this program. In it, you will learn the what, where, why, and how of goal setting and goal achieving. It is never enough just to set goals. You must also be able to achieve them. Setting a goal without having a plan of action is little more than seeing a nice car drive by and saying to yourself, Wow, I wish I had that. It is good to have written goals, but it is exponentially better to have a written action plan to achieve those goals. We get very busy in our lives, and it is easy to get distracted.

There is a story of a farmer who went out one morning after promising his wife that he would get the field all plowed in time to take her out for a nice dinner that evening. He left the house and headed for the barn to get the tractor. As he opened the barn door, he noticed that some of the wood on the door had rotted over time, and the screws that were holding one of the hinges had loosened. I’d better fix that before it hurts somebody, he thought. So into the truck he jumped, and off to the local hardware store he drove to get some fresh lumber and new hinges with which he could repair his barn door.

About an hour later, he returned and set up his sawhorse and saw to cut the planks to size. As he put his circular saw in place, he noticed the rusted, dull blade and decided to change it before he got hurt trying to cut with it. It took him about twenty minutes to find a wrench with which he could remove the blade. Then he went to get a new blade from his tool chest and found that he did not have one. Into the truck he jumped, and off to the local hardware store he drove to get a new blade.

About an hour later, he returned and went to put on the new blade, only to find out that he had dropped the blade retention nut somewhere and could not find it. After unsuccessfully searching for it or a replacement for about twenty minutes, into the truck he jumped, and off to the local hardware store he drove to get a new saw. About an hour later, he returned and began cutting planks for the barn door.

After about an hour, he was all done repairing that door and tested it to make sure it would open and close easily. Closing it, he stood back to admire his work. Gee, it just doesn’t look nice to have a brand-new door next to that worn-out old door. Into the truck he jumped, and off to the local hardware store he drove to get lumber and hinges to rebuild the other barn door. While at the hardware store, he ran into an old friend he had not seen for quite a while; and since it was close to lunchtime, they decided to grab a bite together.

About an hour later, he left the restaurant and drove home to rebuild the barn door. He went right to work on it and finished in about an hour. He stood back to admire his two new barn doors and thought, I don’t want those doors to rot as fast as the last one did, so I better put some weatherproofing paint on them. Into the truck he jumped, and off to the local hardware store he drove to get some paint. About an hour later, he returned with his paint.

He went to get his brushes and rollers and came to find out that, the last time they were used, they were not cleaned properly, and now they were hard and unusable. So into the truck he jumped, and off to the local hardware store he drove to get new brushes and rollers. About an hour later, he returned and went right to work painting the doors. They were quite large, and so it took about an hour to do one side. While that side dried, he painted the other side. After finishing that side, he stood back to admire his work and thought, Now that the first side is dry, I can see that it is going to take another coat of paint.

He picked up his can of paint to pour it into the pan and noticed that it was almost gone, and he would not have enough paint to cover both sides. So into the truck he jumped, and off to the local hardware store he drove to get another can of paint. About an hour later, he returned and went right to work putting on a second coat of paint.

He stood back to admire his work, which was difficult to see at this time because the sun was low in the sky, and it was a bit dark. He quickly put his paintbrushes and rollers away without cleaning them and hurried into the house to get cleaned up to take his wife out for dinner. I’ll plow that field tomorrow, he thought as he walked in the house.

This story, while it may be fictional, is true about many of us in our daily lives. We go from one so-called emergency to another, aimlessly putting out fires and never moving toward our desired goals. All the things that the farmer did were good things. They all needed to be done, but none moved the farmer closer to his goal of plowing the field. It is important that we have a system to keep us on track toward our goals.

The On-Target Success Plan is such a system—simple in its application yet powerful in its effect. Even with this system, we still may come across our own barn door scenario, but we will be able to handle it in a more productive way. I say productive, meaning "moving toward