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title: Game-Planning description: [AFW M.1.6] Michael's Epiphany #6 published: true date: 2026-06-30T08:09:57.413Z tags: editor: markdown dateCreated: 2021-08-03T20:12:50.749Z

Introduction

Read Robert Greene's TDL 01-23 - Create a Ladder of Descending Goals PDF

Read Robert Greene's TDL 11-30 - Advance with a Sense of Purpose PDF

Watch AF MKOM 1692 - Goal Setting VIDEO

Watch Game-Planning for Success VIDEO


Two Tips:

  • Your Game-Plan doesn't need to be long or complicated. The shorter and simpler, the better.
  • Every Game-Plan has to end with action steps. Actual actions you need to take on a daily basis.


Set Goals ➡ Create a Plan ➡ Execute ➡ Be Accountable



What the Experts say about Goals and Game-Plans

Peter Keating: "Guy Francon offered me a job with him some time ago. Today he said it's still open. And I don't know which to take."

Howard Roark: "If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"

Peter Keating: "You see, that's what I admire about you, Howard. You always know. But I mean it. How do you always manage to decide?"

Howard Roark: "How can you let others decide for you?”

-From the book The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.” -Yogi Berra

“A failure in planning is a plan for failure.” -Star Wars Clone Wars, S3E8

“A plan is only as good as those who see it through.” -Star Wars Clone Wars, S1E4

“At the beginning level it’s always about being strong, and being in shape, and having the heart of doing it. But at the highest level it’s more about intellect and having the right game-plan.” -Mike Winkeljohn

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” -Bruce Lee

“People who have no goals are doomed forever to work for people who do.” -Brian Tracy

“Average people have wishes and hopes. Confident people have goals and plans.” -Brian Tracy

“Success is the continuous journey toward the achievement of predetermined, worthwhile goals.” -Tom Hopkins

“To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.” -Nathaniel Branden

“Working without goals is like playing soccer without a net.” -Michael Thomas

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ―Pablo Picasso

“If you have a 10-year plan to accomplish something. You should ask yourself: why not do it in six months?”

“You don't need more time, you need a deadline.”

“Set long-term goals for direction. Set short-term goals for action.” -Stijn Noorman


Read Steve Siebold's Secrets of the World Class #53 - Champiions are Future Oriented PDF

Read Steve Siebold's Secrets of the World Class #57 - Why They Are Fighting PDF

Read Steve Siebold's Secrets of the World Class #62 - Obsessed With Their Goals PDF

Read Steve Siebold's Secrets of the World Class #156 - Focuses On ‘The Why’ PDF


Yale University Study

1953 Study at Yale University dealing with goals. Here's what they found:

  • 3% of the graduating class carried out a comprehensive goal-setting program.
  • 10% carried out a modest and incomplete program.
  • 87% carried out no program at all.

Twenty years later (in 1973) the 3% who had set comprehensive goals had accomplished more during that period than all of the other 97% combined!


Long-Term Plan: Become Financially Independent

Watch Your Ultimate Goal VIDEO

  1. Establish your annual income goal. Then, based upon your goal create a game-plan.

  2. Work your game-plan, and track your progress. See Epiphany #4 - What gets measured gets improved.

Pro-Tip: Participate in an Accountability Program via our AF Advisors Telegram Chatroom..


  1. Invest as much as you can from your commissions into your personal mutual funds.

  2. Once your mutual funds can generate your desired cash-flow, you're done. As amazing as our business is, it is merely a means to an end.

Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki BOOK For more insight into the importance of *how you generate your cash-flow read this book.*


Nick Murray's 9-Step Plan

Read Nick's ATY 339 December 05 - A Plan For the Coming Year, Part 1 PDF

Read Nick's ATY 340 December 06 - A Plan for the Coming Year, Part 2 PDF

Read Nick's ATY 341 December 07 - Goals Are Not Plans PDF

Read Nick's article The Elegant Problem of Capacity PDF


Follow The $50k-Income Game-Plan

Earning $50,000 of income should be your first priority. Do this as quickly as possible - before focusing on a residual income and before even considering recruiting other advisors.

Visit the The $50k-Income Game-Plan page on this Wiki.


Mission Statement

It's important to have a one to three sentences "Mission Statement" that encapsulates what it is you want to achieve in this business, and how you want to achieve it.

I borrowed mine from Nick Murray, "I want to be happy by doing well by doing good."

Read Nick's ATY 001 January 01- Remember Why We Are Here PDF