5 Famous People Who Set Goals

Setting goals is a task every single person should embrace. Quite often we only think of goal setting at New Year, but it’s actually something we can do at any time. Knowing what you want to achieve in your business gives you a reason to keep going, even when facing challenging times. The same is also true for personal goals.

Setting goals motivates us to take action every single day

Setting goals in every aspect of your life will keep you focused on what you want. Whether it’s starting/growing a business, buying your dream home or even losing weight to improve your health, knowing what you want allows you to put the necessary action steps in place. After all, nothing happens in life without taking action.

Successful People Who Set Goals

When we set goals that we don’t reach, we can become deflated and maybe avoid or dread the whole goal-setting process. But we shouldn’t let that stop us from going after what we want. Even the most successful celebrities and business owners have had their own failures but continued to set goals anyway. 

Here’s some examples to inspire you…

Entertainer extraordinaire Beyoncé keeps a photograph of an Academy Award by her treadmill where she sees it every day.

Today, as well as being one of the world’s best-selling recording artists, Beyonce is also the most nominated woman and the second-most awarded person in Grammy history! 

Michael Jordan, was rejected by his high school basketball team because he was too short. After being told he would never play at a professional level, he trained even harder and visualised his name in a professional locker room.

As a professional basketball player, Michael Jordan went on to play 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. During his career he earned a total $90 million salary and is often considered the NBA’s greatest player of all-time.

Walt Disney was a high school drop-out, bankrupt at the age of 22 after his second company failed. After losing the rights to his first animated star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, he started sketching an idea that would later become the beloved Mickey Mouse. When he proposed his idea for the Disney World theme park many bankers laughed at him, but he was determined not to give up.

Walt Disney overcame many failures and setbacks to become one of the worlds most famous names in family entertainment. Today the entire Disney franchise – including the many theme parks, movies, and merchandise – are worth many billions of dollars.

J K Rowling was a single mother, relying on unemployment benefits to feed her family. Twelve different publishers rejected her manuscript, and she was losing confidence in her book and feeling like a complete failure. She continued writing her book finding it theraputic and didn’t give up.

Despite numerous setbacks, J K Rowling finally found a publisher who agreed to publish Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone after the publisher’s daughter started reading the book and became entranced. The Harry Potter series has sold over 500 million books worldwide making it the best-selling book series in history. Not to mention JK Rowling was the first female to become a billionaire author.

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

– J K Rowling

Think of Failures as Lessons Learned

Thomas Edison was labelled stupid by his teachers, yet at one point he held over 1,000 patents for new inventions. He is most famous for inventing the lightbulb. Edison is also known for the following quote…

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

– Thomas Edison

You may not have reached every goal but that doesn’t mean you should stop trying. Revise your goals, choose what is most important in your business and/or life, and take action steps toward those goals.

Want to Know my 5 Goal-Setting Activities?

I’m spilling the beans in my next free masterclass! I’ll share five creative ways to set your goals and get excited about working toward them. It takes WORK to achieve your goals; you can’t just wish for it to happen. Even winning the lottery takes work to go buy the ticket, right?