I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.
Neal A. MaxwellBrigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.
Neal A. MaxwellThe doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.
Neal A. MaxwellTo think of enduring to the end as โhanging in there,โ doing oneโs duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to โendure it well,โ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must โendure in faith.โ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure โvaliantly.โ (D&C 121:29.)
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