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6 VISUALIZATION > A dynamic towards appropriate goal setting
A Dynamic Towards Appropriate Goal Setting
Your Constitution is aimed at getting you to the next stage: developing specific objectives and milestones – as defined by your principles. Others agree with Covey on this. According to Brian Tracy (2003), our values define us – generating the following dynamic towards appropriate goal setting:
(a) First we discover our values.
(b) We then determine our beliefs from our values.
(c) We derive our attitude from our beliefs.
(d) We arrive at our expectations from our attitudes. And, finally,
(e) We set our actions from our expectations.
If we reverse this chain it is easy to see where things go wrong for the High-FF. Our expectations of failure mean that we set inappropriate goals because of our belief that we are incapable of achievement. This incapacity is derived from our values, which include placing a higher focus on maintaining face than on achievement.