<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Vic Johnson - motivational speaker" title="Vic Johnson - motivational speaker" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/vicjohnson.jpg" />&#8220;All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought.&#8221; &#8211; As A Man Thinketh</p>
<p>How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their life. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time &#8220;thinking&#8221; about their vacation than they do thinking about what&#8217;s important in their life.</p>
<p>The power of &#8220;definitely directed thought&#8221; (the power of purpose) is why I love the story of John Goddard so much. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2008/01/definitely-directed-thought-by-vic-johnson/" title="Permanent Link: Definitely Directed Thought by Vic Johnson" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":14,"date":"2008-01-25T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/01\/definitely-directed-thought-by-vic-johnson\/"},"modified":"2023-05-14T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T20:08:34","slug":"definitely-directed-thought-by-vic-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/01\/definitely-directed-thought-by-vic-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitely Directed Thought by Vic Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Vic Johnson - motivational speaker\" title=\"Vic Johnson - motivational speaker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/vicjohnson.jpg\" \/>&#8220;All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought.&#8221; &#8211; As A Man Thinketh<\/p>\n<p>How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their life. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time &#8220;thinking&#8221; about their vacation than they do thinking about what&#8217;s important in their life.<\/p>\n<p>The power of &#8220;definitely directed thought&#8221; (the power of purpose) is why I love the story of John Goddard so much. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2008\/01\/definitely-directed-thought-by-vic-johnson\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Definitely Directed Thought by Vic Johnson\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}