Dear Friend

Thank you for taking the time to view the Apache Creek Deaf and Youth Ranch DVD at www.instituteofchampions.com.  I’m sure that you could see and feel the deep compassion, heart, and love from Dr. Dean and Janice Lang on behalf of today’s disadvantaged youth.

I can honestly tell you having worked with this amazing ministry for the last several years; that the heart, compassion and sacrifice of these two people is real and remarkable.

So many people are looking for a way to make a difference in the lives of young people, and there could be no better way than through this deserving, totally faith ministry of 33 years.

I challenge you to return to www.instituteofchampions.com and make the most liberal gift that you can so we can keep reaching out to the soundless lives of the deaf, the overlooked inner city youth, today’s Native American youth from the reservation, and all others that we can reach before it is to late.

Thank you and God Bless!

Dr. Gary D. Knouf

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?!

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:

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.

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!

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.

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?