When talking to others about what their plan for life is, people sometimes make good mistakes. They ask so what do you want to have in life and they say well, I want to have a million dollars or I want to have a big house or I want to have a bunch of children or something like that. They're not going to be able to help them this way. They're not going to be able to achieve anything because they're starting the wrong way. Before knowing what you can have, you have to be able to invest some effort into getting it. That means that you have to be able to put in that effort and after you've put in that effort, then you can have it. In order to be able to put in that effort, there is a stage before it which is what you want to be in life. How can you see yourself several years from now. What is it that you want to accomplish?

That's what this section is about. Accomplishing, not about planning. The real goal over here is to accomplish.

And the correct order of priorities in order to be able to help people is not what they think it should be but the reverse order.

They should follow these stages.

• First talk about what they want to be in the future
• Then discuss what needs to be done in order to accomplish this
• Later on and then think about what you will want to have as a result of this so you can have this picture in front of you all the time. That picture is going to be able to help you work towards your ultimate goal.

So the three stages that you have to consider are not in the usual order but in the order that's presented over here.