The Good Wind Doesn't Blow on Silent Ships
The world won't respond to a dream you've never spoken aloud.
Who rapped you over the knuckles for putting your hand back in the cookie jar?
Was it Mom or Dad?
Someone in your life taught you to “not want” too much.
A lack of ambition kills souls. People are stuck in the doldrums of life, and they are afraid to even hoist a sail because they believe that any trace of wind is bad.
But the wind is actually good.
And a life in motion is a very attractive thing; it grows businesses, can heal relationships, and might even inspire other people to greatness.
Consistent wind is important.
Not loads of energy one day and nothing the rest... Always in motion, always towards your goals.
And this doesn’t often happen. So many people start strong and then slow down or stop. There’s a reason for this.
Watch this short video here:
The Good Wind Doesn’t Blow on Silent Ships
It’s easy to dream a little bit, or want only a little more.
I think someone taught us wrong when we were kids.
They told us to be grateful for what we have.
They reminded us that we have so much more than other people in our world.
All of this is true, but I know that I personally picked up something else in their teaching. Something that was altogether detrimental to me.
I learned to be circumspect in my wanting more.
To want a little bit but not too much
To know what my station was in life
Can you relate? Did you learn a similar lesson?
There’s a big problem with this. It means we’ve learned to ignore our own desires and to set mediocre and circumspect goals.
These goals are “realistic,” and as such, they don’t motivate us much, and they don’t drive us to change.
Great 3-Word Goals Are Born Out of Desire and Not Belief
When I set my very first 3-word goals two years ago, I was at rock bottom.
I could have set a physical goal of: “Exercise Thrice Weekly”
And yet there would be no ambition there, no end goal, no life-changing desire.
What was it that I really wanted, as I sat on that rock ‘3 Steps Away From Having a Coronary?”
I was utterly sick of being unfit
I was tired of being fat
I was extremely frustrated at having wasted the best years of my life not exercising
When you hit rock bottom, you want radical change. You want the opposite of your current struggle.
Let me tell you what I truly desired. Perhaps there are latent desires inside of you just like too…
I wanted my wasted years back.
I’m getting teary-eyed just thinking about it now.
So I set a big, bold, impossible 3-word goal… “Fittest At Fifty”
I would take back all the wasted years. I would become the fittest, fastest, and strongest I’d ever been in my life by the age of 50.
The next day, I drove to the gym closest to my house and hired the first personal trainer that I met.
I thought about this 3-word-goal daily.
And two years later… I reached my goal.
How do you unleash desire when you set your goals?
It takes a certain level of bravery to believe in impossible things. Here are 3 things that help me:
I refuse to limit my goals
I try to choose goals that are almost embarrassing to say out loud.
When I find myself playing small, I double my goal.
It also helps to set goals while you are surrounded by other aspirational people, as they will both pull and push you to greatness
I am running a “3 Word Goals Challenge” for the month of July, and I am looking for 12 people who want to set goals, use our system, and crush the rest of 2026 under their feet.
Comment “3” or reach out to be personally considered.
Geoff.x