So the final section of each core lesson will end with the answer to our original mystery question. And if you recall our mystery question for this core lesson on goal setting and goal strategy, it had to do with a man named Jim Rohn. To remind you of the situation, Jim roans mentor Earl shelf, asked him a question when he was in his early 20s. He asked him if he had something specific about his goals. And if he didn't have this important thing, then Mr. shelf said he could guess his bank balance within a few hundred dollars. Jim Rohn said that he actually did not have this and Mr. shelf was able to guess his bank balance accurately, which was not that much.
Can you guess what that thing was? What important thing to Jim need to have regarding his goals? And the answer is, goals that are written down. You might have guessed this already. But perhaps not, the point is writing down your goals is crucial, and you've done that already. Keep doing it.
Now I've got a little homework for you for our next lesson on time management. What I'd like you to do is fill out this time tracking worksheet, I want you to plan and then record one weekday of how you spend your time. Once you get out your time tracking worksheet, you'll see something that looks just like this. And what I want you to do is in this area here, this column, what you planned to do, I want you to write out before your day begins. I want you to write out what you expect to do for a perfect day, from 7am all the way through 7am 24 full hours. Now of course include sleep somewhere in here, write out your perfect day as best you can.
And then before you start that day, keep track over here on the right column. What you actually did write down what you actually did again for 24 hours 7am through 6am. Here on the right column, you're going to want to have this completed and ready to go for your next lesson on time management. So make sure you do it, it'll be worthwhile. And I'd like to conclude with a lesson from a man named Seneca. Seneca was a Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist.
And his quote went like this. While we teach, we learn what that means is, as you teach something, you actually learn that subject in greater depth. And I want you to try to do this with each of our 12 core lessons. This is something I would like you to think about and seriously consider. Take a moment to let Senecas quote here sink in. It really is true that you become better at understanding a concept and better at putting ideas into practice.
If you actually take the role as the teacher even a minor role, scientists have called this phenomenon the protege effect. And research shows that when students tutor others in the same subject, three things happen. Number one, they work harder to understand the material. They can recall it more accurately. And three, they can apply it more effectively, that's really valuable. So become a tutor of this material.
Tell your brother or sister or friend about what you've learned and asked to teach them. Why? Well, you will learn the material in even greater detail. You will be helping someone else become a better person. And helping others is one of the ingredients to happiness, something we'll touch on in greater detail in our lesson on the Science of Happiness. So once you finish completing this lessons, worksheets print out another copy of The goal setting worksheet and the gold strategy worksheet and help someone start working on their goals.
Fantastic job Ladies and gentlemen, you have completed your first core lesson. Now we only have 11 more to go and it's really worth it. So make sure you stick with it and complete all core lessons. You'll be glad you did. And I'll see you for core lesson number two coming up soon.