CHAPTER 7

Step 4: Goal-Free Zones and Goal Replacement Surgery

“Many people are climbing a ladder of success that’s leaning against the wrong wall.”

——STEPHEN COVEY

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I recently attended a business conference with two hundred ridiculously high-achievers. These were the “alpha dogs” of business. I’d never been in a room with so many multi-millionaires. You would have recognized many of the attendees from their television appearances and other business ventures. Each of us paid $10,000 to attend, so the bar was pretty high just to get in the door.

Yet, even at this level of financial overachievement, I was shocked to see how often it came up ...

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