How Important
is Goal Setting?
Your goals are set!
Setting goals is a very important task.
What benchmarks did you use?
We set goals for short term objectives. Most of these objectives concern
materialistic wants: money, and physical things.
Here is a suggestion to take a different point of view when working on goals.
Start with deciding what your life should be. Take some time to define your
life five years from now. Here are some questions you might ask yourself.
What are my surroundings? What kind of places am I in? What am I feeling? What
are my emotions? What types of people are around me? What kind of feelings do I
get from them? What am I doing? Physically? Where am I going? My future? Where
have I been?
Notice there are no questions dealing with money, or named places, or named
people. The answers to these questions will provide you with attitudes,
feelings, values, perceptions and other non tangible ideas that make life worth
living no matter where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing!
If we have created a lifestyle that we like, then the physical part of our
lives will fit right in and accompany the lifestyle because it has to! My
suggestion is to look at the lifestyle you want to create, and set your plan to
achieve the lifestyle instead of the physical side of life most of us set our
goals to achieve.
Want to be even stronger? Define your values very clearly. Make sure your
vision of your life in five years fits with your values like a glove.
Is it worth it? If you do not create your life by setting goals and a plan to
reach them, someone is doing it for you. Who has more at stake here? You or
'them'? Somebody is
certainly creating a plan for you!
Think of it this way. Look back five years ago in your life. Are you today
where you imagined you would be five years ago? Or are you where someone else
imagined you would be?
How much would your life improve if you made the plan instead of 'them'? Don't
you think you might have a little more interest in your life than someone else?
I should hope so.
As the advertisement says so well:
Just do it!
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