The Science of Getting Rich Method Excerpt - What are Desired Outcomes?

Your desired outcomes in life are simply the things you want to own, achieve and experience. Most of life’s desired outcomes – also known as goals fit within these three categories.

Ownership - of things are the material elements in your life, your bank account balances, the car you drive, the homes you own, the art on your walls, your stock portfolio etc.

Achievements - are things you work towards, such as a corporate position, an award, an honor, a running race time, the number of push-ups you can do, a golf score on a tough course etc.

Experiences - are the things you wish to be a part of, watch the sun set on a beach, eat an ice cream cone, see the Rolling Stones in Concert, see the Mona Lisa, swim with the dolphins, have a great relationship with God, live the tranquil life of a person who does not have to worry about finances.

There are no value judgments here. What you want is what you want. As long as it’s legal and doesn’t hurt anyone, it should be on your desired outcomes list.

How many things should be on your list of desired outcomes? As you can see from the style this book is written in, I like simple things and think in terms of a rule I discovered a few years back called the Marine Corp. Rule of Three, I also call this the Big Three. This principle states that each Marine has three things to worry about. When things to worry or think about increased to four, effectiveness plummeted. The functional version of the rule dictates that a person should limit his or her attention to three tasks or goals, or as I say - desired outcomes. Also think about this rule as it relates to the things you have accomplished in your life. When something went your way and came off perfectly, you probably did two to three key things well, not dozens. Secured a key client, hit upon the key referral source, found the great supplier, or hit upon the key factor that opened the floodgates of success. This rule provides focus and simplicity. It makes achievement simple, it does not make it easy.

In my study of achievement, I have noticed that people who tend to make laundry lists of goals don’t tend to accomplish much, in contrast to the simple focused approach we will take here. Those who find and successfully work the Big Three tend to do extremely well, while those that can't drown in an avalanche of detail and meaningless drivel.

Realistically, no one can work on dozens of meaningful goals or desired outcomes nor make dozens of changes simultaneously. Either the goals are not that meaningful or you are not getting there very fast. If you want to become a doctor or get an MBA realistically you can’t put these types of goals on a list of 27 goals.

The way to achieve lots of desired outcomes is to purposely keep your list small, but actually complete the lists and be able to move onto other desired outcomes. So, a short list of three desired outcomes completed four times is twelve desired outcomes achieved. This method is better than a laundry list of ten items which overwhelms you to the point that nothing really gets done. This program is designed to hunt for big game and make big changes in your life and turn your most important desired outcomes into realized outcomes. If your list has three long-term desired outcomes for many years this is perfectly fine and shows you have big dreams you are working towards.

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