In her book Write It Down, Make It Happen, author Henriette Anne Klauser shares a powerful story about the famous football coach Lou Holtz:

“He was twenty-eight years old when he sat down at his dining room table and wrote out one hundred and seven impossible goals. He had just lost his job, he had no money in the bank, and his wife, Beth, was eight months pregnant with their third child. He was so discouraged that Beth gave him a copy of The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz to help lift his spirits…”

The book said you should write down all the goals you wanted to achieve before you died and Holts’s list included meeting the pope, having dinner at the White House, and becoming the head coach at Notre Dame.

If you look on his website today, you will see that of the one hundred and seven goals on his list, he has achieved eighty-one. This is a great example of someone writing his goals down, working step by step towards those goals, and achieving them.

(Read the rest over at Intentional By Grace…thanks!)