Read this every day for a week, morning and night, to ingrain it.

Habit #2 – Begin With the End in Mind

The ultimate goal is to get to Heaven. During your journey, you might as well enjoy the thrills of achieving other goals as well. Make a wish list and call them goals, and picture them to be at the top of a staircase. It might help to use the Gap Analysis method as a guide (here is where you are against here is where you would like to be).

Staircasing your goals means to break them up into smaller steps. You can’t jump to the top of the stairs all at once, so just take one step at a time (each step is called an objective). Make a list of all the steps (objectives) you will need to take to reach your goal, and keep moving. Never let a day go by without making progress on at least one small step. Put time limits on completing each step. If you do not use time limits, procrastination will get in your way.

Learn a lesson from the ant. If the ant wants to get from point A to point B, you could toss several objects in its way, and it will go over, under, around, or through these objects to get to point B. Sometimes the only way you can stop it is to kill it. If you keep moving toward your goal, you will most certainly get there as long as you keep moving.

Don’t give up your goal just because you have a temporary setback, or obstacle. If you desire your goal badly enough, just be like the ant and figure out a way around the obstacle and keep moving.

(The Law Of The Farm): When is the right time to take actions? Sometimes it is a mistake to wait. Learn a lesson from the farmer. If you want good crops, in the spring you must prepare the soil and plant seeds. In the summer you must water, fertilize, and weed. In the fall you must harvest when the time is right to avoid rot. Each step cannot wait. If any of these steps are missed or late or done poorly, the farmer will not get a good crop, and the entire year is wasted.

The Law Of The Farm can also be applied to learning, or getting good grades. You cannot neglect studies all year, and then expect to learn or get good grades by "cramming" the night before a test.

Make your own "Mission Statement" which tells the world a little bit about what kind of person you are and how you want to live your life. Here are some ideas, and you can add your own.
I am going to try…
…to make the world a better place
…to be a friend to those who need one
…to spread happiness
…to promote peace
…to ease someone’s burden
…to learn something new every day
…to be a little bit better at something every day
…to be a little bit smarter every day
…to let other people go first or ahead of me
…to help someone every day
…to make someone smile every day
…to get to Heaven, and help others get there
At first you might not understand the value of a Mission Statement, but when things go wrong and you are not sure what to do, look at your Mission Statement, it may help you get back on track.