Tomorrow evening November 18th, we will be conducting a Christian College Student Seminar for students that attend Western New Mexico University, The seminar will consists of two seminar modules that were chosen by the students. The modules are: “12 1/2 Ways To Increase Your Grades With Less Effort” and “21 Ways To Be A Happy Christian.”  We expect an energetic fast paced evening with these awesome students.

 We all need personal development principles in our life on a continuous basis or we all tend to slide back in our personal progress in life.

If you know anyone in Silver City New Mexico, they are welcome to attend.  Here is the information flyer:

Institute of Champions and Dr. Gary Knouf Present:

“Seminars for Christian College Students”

Don’t miss this free, high energy, informative, exciting, life building, informational seminar!

Tuesday night November 18^th

7pm to 9:30pm

Seminar module 1:

“12 ½ Ways To Get Better Grades With Less Effort”

Seminar module 2:

“21 Ways To Be A Happy Christian”

(Students chose the subjects as well as the day and time!)

Seminar Location:

 The BSU Building 900 College, Silver City NM

Contact BSU Director David Enegren for more information: 575-956-8649 or email Dr. Gary at drgary4@juno.com or visit www.dryaryspeaks.com

(all are welcome and refreshments will be served)

Many people do not set life targets because no one ever really sold them on how powerful life targeting really is.  Consider what life targeting does for you:

1.)    Life Targeting gives you a destination, and a purpose. Without purpose in your life, your dead, they just haven’t buried you yet. Great lives are always motivated by great purposes. You must find a purpose great enough to overcome the inertia of procrastination. Be like the US military, they have learned through trial and error and continuous development, how to target the enemy with pin point accuracy. Or become like NASA that has learned how to target with extreme accuracy, and land a man on the moon, or a vehicle on mars, or delivering a crew to the International Space Station.  All that is great, but what about you. Your life should be more important to you than anything the US military or NASA is doing, so learn to apply the principles of targeting to what is most important in your life.

2.)    Life targeting gives you an inner drive to succeed. When you carefully determine your destination and desires to accomplish, you will naturally muster an inner motivation that can unlock amazing energy resources that are trapped within you.  The capacity and miracle of the human being is astronomical.  Your Psyche will search and search and deliver to you, every thing that you need to hit your life targets with pin point accuracy, if you will just give yourself enough time, stay focused, take action and be persistent and patient.

3.)    Life targeting keeps you on track and gives you a daily routine. By determining what is really important to you and carefully defining activities necessary for the accomplishment of what is really important to you, it will help keep your life on track especially if you will constantly focus on those activities because you have written them down and keep them constantly before you. As your senses are assaulted by the tyranny of the urgent, and other influences that would sidetrack you, you will find yourself always coming back to your purpose which gets you back on track and you always return to the daily activities with the most may off.

4.)    Life targeting helps you manage your time and effort more easily. We all have the same amount of time. Last I checked we have 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week, just like the President of the United States, or any other successful person.  It’s what we do with our time that changes our outcome. Once you have determined your heartfelt desires, it will definitely help you manage your time and devote the energy and effort necessary to achieve your desires.  You will spend all your time and expend all your energy on something anyway, so why not make those expenditures count towards fulfilling your dreams.

5.)    Life targeting empowers you because targets are powerful. Champions set compelling targets, because life targeting energizes. Whatever you focus on and whatever you think about you will naturally gravitate towards and eventually fulfill. When you focus on your targets and your incredible mind begins to solve problems and find ways to reach your dream, an energy and power is release that is exciting and thrilling.  Your brain will release endorphins and mood elevators and give you the most amazing natural high, and then you will automatically keep progressing towards your targets because of the incredible rush you feel.  It’s the way we are designed and it’s powerful and wonderful. Try it!

6.)    Life targeting helps you feel good about what you are doing. Not only will your physiology change to that of energy and excitement but you will begin to feel good about everything in your life. You will find energy reserves that you didn’t even know existed, and that you may not have ever experienced before. Now you have a reason to exist, a reason to go on. Honestly, natural opiates in the form of brain chemicals are released into you blood stream and you will feel absolutely wonderful and it will all be linked to your journey to the achievement and accomplishment of your dream.  It’s literally the euphoria of a “dream come true” but you created it yourself and made it come true for you, through life targeting!

7.)    Life targeting gives you a daily new lease on life. When you create compelling and thrilling life targets, you have a reason to get up everyday.  Your subconscious mind works all night while you are sleeping to solve problems create answers and ways to hit your targets with pinpoint accuracy. You wake excited and hopeful for the day because you are energized with purpose and meaning to your life.  The continuous thought of doing something of significance in life is a powerful energizing motivator. Every day is a bright new opportunity to see what you can achieve and how much closer you can come to realizing your life’s fulfillment of your destiny.

8.)    Life targeting gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence as you hit the target. You may start out unsure of yourself, we all do, but eventually little successes ad up to more little successes. Each one adding to your confidence until eventually because of the wonderful feeling of accomplishment in little and then bigger things, you will develop an unstoppable confidence that will be apparent to all around you and will produce the poise and wisdom to propel you on in your life’s quest. It is all just a natural and progressive result of hitting your life targets.  That’s why NASA cheers when the lunar lander lands, and that is why the sailors on an aircraft carrier cheer when their missile hits the target. Why should they have all the fun? You can hit your targets too, and cause some cheering in your life and in your household.

9.)    Life targeting increases your income and improves your lifestyle. One of the great secrets in life is to find out what you really enjoy doing and then create a way to make it pay. When you do that you will make more money than others because you are passionate about what you are doing when others are not. Success, reaching your dreams, finding fulfillment, making more money, and sharing with others is a lifestyle anyone would enjoy and cherish. Money is not the root of all evil, the love of money is the root of all evil, but when we earn more to be a blessing to more people and causes, then out motive is right, and it makes us very happy and gives us joy as we help others.

10.)  Life targeting will give you more emotional stability along the journey of life because you will know where you are going and feel more in control of your life. People do crazy things when they feel out of control, and it’s normal for people to encroach upon the boundaries of others and try to control them.  When you are living a life of careful targeting and achievement always working and taking action towards your dreams, a peace and emotional stability will come over your being and you will experience contentment like you have never known. Now instead of trying to control everyone because you feel so out of control, you will begin to share with others how they to can lead a life of success, victory, peace and joy, by accomplishing their great purpose in life. Now you can really contribute to the well being of others and make a significant difference in this world.

Someone said, “You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.”  That’s what life targeting will help you do, to “work it right!”

As you think of your targets, you must always gravitate

towards taking action on activity targets, because that’s where the true power is.  You cannot change yesterday, “Elvis is dead, Get over it!”  And you cannot change the future except in the present. The song writer said “There’s Just No Future in the Past.”  The only control you have is what you do right now.  Someone rightly said, “Wherever you are, be there!”  That means living in the present.  What you do in each moment of life will determine your future, and since it is that important, and powerful, why not plan it carefully?

You must take your major life targets and break them down into action targets for daily activities.  Remember, “I will do today what others will not, that I may have tomorrow what others have not.”

You must break your targets into smaller reachable targets, or short term targets that lead to long term targeting.  Commit so many hours per day to working on your life targets, doing that which really produces results.  Then you must determine the success building activities that you will commit to doing every week, and how much time you will delegate to those activities.   

Utilize the “Plan of Attack” sheet at the end of this chapter to help you set such targets, both short term and long term targets and follow up on your own progress daily.

Many times in my life I have had to start over from scratch, but using the principles of life targeting and a targeted plan of action, I was able to succeed and rise to the top again.  I worked my plan and reached my target date, and was enormously successful.  You too can be enormously successful in just ninety days if you want to bad enough, and anyone can do something for at least ninety days.  Why not set a goal to make it all happen in the next 90!  Start with energizing targets for you and your life. Targets worth sacrificing and working for.  Targets that stimulate, challenge, and fire you up inside. Targeting that will change your lifestyle.  Targeting that will wind you up and turn you loose!  Targeting that will set you on fire, and cause you to accomplish something of significant value for you and those you love! 

Why not go for it?!

For more information contact Dr. Gary D. Knouf at drgary4@juno.com or go to www.instituteofchampions.com

The Power Principle of Targeted Living

By Dr. Gary D. Knouf

www.instituteofchampions.com

www.drgaryspeaks.com

Targeted living is successful living.  Targeted living is abundance living.  Targeted living is empowered living. Targeted living is a happy and fruitful lifestyle. Targeted living is life at it’s best.

Our family has the privilege of living in the beautiful mountains of New Mexico on a 400 acre ranch bounded by national forest. This ranch is dedicated to working with disadvantaged children and we find great satisfaction in working with these wonderful kids.  We have very little traffic on our two lane road but we have lots of elk traffic.  Our county has about 3,500 residents and about 30,000 elk.

Every year hunters come from around the world, some paying exorbitant prices to bag this magnificent animal with a bow and arrow or a muzzle loader rifle. Many variables have to come together for these hunters to be successful in their quest.  They must first be in the right place at the right time. Secondly, they must do the right thing. Only about 20% of these mighty hunters pull it all together and score their animal. Regardless of where a person stands on hunting wild animals, much can be learned from the principles and skills that these hunters must have, as well as all expert archers and riflemen down through the ages. These principles and skills also apply to living a life of power, significance, victory, accomplishment, influence, achievement, happiness and joy. That is why targeting is so essential and critical for the true champions of life. Here are some of those necessary considerations every hunter of significant accomplishment and productivity must know and practice.

You cannot hit a target you do not have. You cannot wander through life living a life by accident. Bad things happen by accident, that’s why they call them accidents. Good things happen on purpose. You are not going to be discovered by a Hollywood agent, and chances are better that you will be hit by lightning than your chances of winning the lottery.  The odds are astronomically against you being so “lucky”. You must create your own “luck.”  You must take responsibility for you and yours, and take the time to establish important and essential life targets and learn to effectively and consistently hit those targets.

You cannot hit a target you cannot see. You must keep your important targets before you every day and rehearse them often.  To the greater degree that you do this you will not get sidetracked but will hit your “bulls eye” over time, and then eventually time and time again. You must write your targets down and keep them in front of you constantly. This is a great secret of efficient targeting.

You cannot hit a target without acquiring some skill. You must shoot and shoot again, making necessary adjustments until you get closer and closer to the center. You must study taking aim, and where it aim, and what to do. Victory here is impossible without honing your skill and fine tuning your abilities until your daily lifestyle is one of accuracy and competence in major life targeting.

You cannot hit a target without practice. Practice makes perfect and repetition is the mother of skill. Like an Olympic athlete, shooting again and again. Developing your skill with what, how, when and why until every time you shoot it is a center shot. You’re the only one that can be the perfect you, and because it is so important to you, you must practice day after day because no one could possible care about your success as much as you.

You cannot hit a target without tenacity and perseverance. Olympic shooters must persevere with a tenacious commitment to being the best of the best.  The one virtue of all successful people whatever their field is perseverance. You must struggle and lose, try and fail, shoot and miss, but when 99% of everyone else quits, you’re still shooting. You refuse to lose. You will not be denied. You have chosen to do whatever it takes to win every match of your life. You have decided to make whatever sacrifices that you must to reach your dreams!

You cannot hit a target without belief. Belief is powerful; never underestimate the power of faith and believing. All great achievements of all time required belief.  You must believe you have the capacity, you must believe you can develop the ability; you must believe in your commitment, you must believe you can.  It was Henry Ford that said “if you think you can you can, and if you think you can’t, you can’t.” Never listen to the critics and self appointed judges, that will call you a fool for believing. Your belief must be much stronger than any obstacles you will face.  Your beautiful, successful future, as well as your legacy depend upon it!

You cannot hit a target without visualization. You must visualize with your minds eye, making the shot over and over, imagining shot after shot successfully.  The mind cannot differentiate between a real and an imagined thought, so you can practice and with your mind always visualizing the hitting of the center again and again. The saying goes “seeing is believing” so you must see it with your minds eye to believe it.

You cannot hit a target if you do not take the shot.

The great Hall of Fame Hockey player, Wayne Gretsky  said, “you miss 100% of the shots you never take.” The story is told of a little boy who was shooting at the moon with his bee-bee gun, and a man came along and said, boy, don’t you know that you will never hit the moon, and the little boy said “I’m coming closer than you are.” You’ve got to shoot and shoot and keep on shooting. Find a way to win, find a way to hit the target, and then means you must shoot and shoot and shoot till you win the trophy!

You cannot hit a target without a sense of joy as a result. A bulls eye always brings an adrenal response of excitement, elation, happiness, success and a sense of mission accomplished. It’s part of the prize, the sense of fulfillment, the challenge of competing, the fun along the way. Remember “success is a journey, not a destination.” The person you are becoming along the way is rich in character and rich in happiness and joy. Targeted living is the absolute best and incredibly blessed!

You must then be sure that you have created compelling targets for your dynamic life of fulfillment and accomplishment. You should have worthy targets for every area of your life.  Compelling targets and compelling reasons are so powerful. Always start with the end in mind and build your targets with care and perfection. What is it that you would like to achieve? What sets your soul on fire? What would bring you so much fulfillment and pride to create? Apply this principle across the board to your entire life.

We all know that we need to do this, but why don’t we do it?  Here are some ideas, and maybe you can see yourself in them:

People do not set targets because they are afraid of failure if they do not hit their target.  The fear of failure is common, and often paralyzes its victims.  Failure, remember, is just part of success.  We’ve all failed, and the key is to learn how to work through failure until we succeed.  You can never really fail as long as you always learn from failure.  Thomas Edison said, when he was questioned about why he had failed over one thousand times in his experiments to invent the light bulbs, “I never failed a thousand times, I merely discovered a thousand ways of not doing it.”  Aren’t we thankful today that he persevered and pushed through the failure and negative obstacles, refusing to be denied?  With that kind of spirit he changed human history, and improved the lifestyle of all of us. 

Many people do not set targets, because they are afraid of self-image damage if they set a target and do not hit it.  Don’t worry about that.  If you are a target creator, and stay focused on your life targets, taking daily action to reach them, you will find yourself automatically drawn to hitting them.  You will add successes to your successes and your belief and self-confidence will automatically grow, as people with written targets hit a hundred times more than a person without them.

Many people do not live a targeted life because they procrastinate.  They have good intentions, and always mean to, but they just never get it done. Why not do yourself a big favor and give your life a giant boost and start today.

Many people do not set targets for living because they do not want to have to do that much thinking.  It really does require focused thought, which takes some discipline, and energy.  The truth is that some people are just too lazy to exert the effort.  But that wouldn’t be true of you, would it?

This last week, Susan and I had the privilege of speaking to a group of students and faculty at Western New Mexico University in Silver City new Mexico.  The students were lively and interactive, laughing spontaneously and nodding their ascent to concepts we presented.  We have  been envited back to conduct a seminar on Tuesday evening November 18th.  The seminar modules the students selected were “12 1/2 Ways To Increase Your Grades With Less Effort” and “21 Ways To Be A Happy Christian” We are eagerly looking forward to our return with the students and predict a highly energized, informative, and effecitive personal development time in the lives of the students. Anyone wishing to schedule one of our life changing seminars should contact me at drgary4@juno.com. The seminars help attendees in personal focus, goal setting, motivation and a variety of personal development and empowerment principles that everyone needs in their life.

This Halloween my wife and I traveled to Silver City NM to visit with our daughter and son-in-law and there three sons, our grandsons that we call the “three stooges” and “dirty rotten scoundrels” from the “home Alone” movie. We have such a great time with the three boys; Jack who is 5, Levi who is 8 and TJ who is 10. Needless to say there is a lot of energy when we visit as we wrestle, laugh and tease. The boy also love to visit us here at Apache Creek Deaf and Youth Ranch where they ride horses, hike, swim and enjoy the activities of an old west ranch and the children we work with here.

Well Halloween is also my birthday, has been all my life, so in the spirit of “trick or treat” I decided I would prepare a trick for the boys. I found three nice size boxes that I would wrap in wrapping paper after I had put the trick in the box. For TJ I put in two sandwich bags, one filled with fox scat and the other one filled with mountain lion scat. For Levi, I filled a sandwich bag with elk scat, and for Jack Jack, I filled a bag with horse manure.

When we arrived at their house their eyes brightened and enlarged as they saw the large wrapped presents with their names on one each. I even tried to buy the wrapped presence back from them for a dollar but they would have nothing of the sort because they were sure that their surprises would be treasured as they always were before.

Finally on signal they opened their gifts to discover the trick. Oh my goodness, what howling and shrieking! Levi simply walked away in disgust and Jack Jack, the 5 year old boldly declared that “I’m never going to open a present ever again!”

Needless to say, at that moment Papa was a zero.

I then went out to the car and tried to redeem myself with some other gifts I had planned to give them after the trick.

TJ the ten year old, then declared that he wanted to read the report he had written and read to his class that very day. I felt now less than zero as he read his report about me. Here is how it went:

“My Papa” Gary Knouf, by TJ Enegren

My Papa is a hero to me. The reason he is a hero is because he fought in the Vietnam War. He flew in over the ground in a helicopter. His name is Gary Knouf. He is 58 years old. He was born in Seattle Washington on Halloween in 1950. He is the oldest boy of 7 children. He lives on a Ranch in Apache Creek New Mexico.

Now, let me talk to you about his life in the war. My papa flew in the helicopters and dropped sensors on the trail to see if there was any enemy movement. He rescued the plane pilots that were shot down in the jungle. Every night the enemy had bombed many times. One time a bomb hit outside his hooch and a light fell on my Papas forehead and splintered into his eyes. He was wounded. He sacrificed time away from his family to fight for our country. Even though he gave so much he doesn’t want attention for what he has done.

Now, he is a preacher, and a great Papa. Another reason I picked my Papa is because he is intelligent and really funny. Like the time he gave my dad pink boxers for Christmas and when he does his Spike Jones song at camp. For all these reasons and a whole lot more. I chose to write about him for this project.”

Wow…I felt like I went from a zero to a hero then I felt like a zero again for the trick I had played upon them. I will always treasure this special report from TJ as how many people ever have such a special report written about them by someone who means so much to me as my grandson, TJ

If you haven’t done so; check out one of our websites at www.drgaryspeaks.com, and you will find some great and also free, downloads!

God Bless and thanks for listening!