<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-medium" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/les-brown-09.gif" alt="Les Brown - Motivational Author and Speaker" width="113" height="144" /><strong>Goals give you a purpose for taking life on.</strong></p>
<p>People who live without <a title="Goal Setting Tips &amp; Articles" href="https://www.getmotivation.com/goals/goals_main.html">goals</a> have no purpose and it is obvious even in their body language. They are on permanent idle, they slouch, they list from side to side. Their conversations dawdle. They telephone you: &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m just calling. I wasn&#8217;t doing anything, so I thought I&#8217;d call you.&#8221; Well, don&#8217;t call ME. I&#8217;VE got things to do.</p>
<p>Many people just muddle through life. They don&#8217;t read informational material, they don&#8217;t even pay attention when they WATCH television. If you ask them what they are watching, they mumblemouth, &#8220;Nothin&#8217;, I&#8217;m just lookin&#8217;.&#8221; <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2018/04/goals-get-you-going-by-les-brown/" title="Permanent Link: Goals Get You Going By Les Brown" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3203,"date":"2018-04-23T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2024-10-03T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:01:36","slug":"goals-get-you-going-by-les-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2018\/04\/goals-get-you-going-by-les-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals Get You Going By Les Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/les-brown-09.gif\" alt=\"Les Brown - Motivational Author and Speaker\" width=\"113\" height=\"144\" \/><strong>Goals give you a purpose for taking life on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People who live without <a title=\"Goal Setting Tips &amp; Articles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/goals\/goals_main.html\">goals<\/a> have no purpose and it is obvious even in their body language. They are on permanent idle, they slouch, they list from side to side. Their conversations dawdle. They telephone you: &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m just calling. I wasn&#8217;t doing anything, so I thought I&#8217;d call you.&#8221; Well, don&#8217;t call ME. I&#8217;VE got things to do.<\/p>\n<p>Many people just muddle through life. They don&#8217;t read informational material, they don&#8217;t even pay attention when they WATCH television. If you ask them what they are watching, they mumblemouth, &#8220;Nothin&#8217;, I&#8217;m just lookin&#8217;.&#8221; <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2018\/04\/goals-get-you-going-by-les-brown\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Goals Get You Going By Les Brown\" 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":"default","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\/3203"}],"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=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}