Starting A Better Life With Goals
This section explains how to set personal goals. It starts with your lifetime goals, and then works through a series of lower level plans culminating in a daily to do list.
By setting up this structure of plans you can break even the biggest life goal down into a number of small tasks that you need to do each day to reach the lifetime goals.
The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime, as setting lifetime goals that gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making process. To help give you a broad, and balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some or all of the following categories:
Artistic:
Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what is it? Do you want to write a book; paint a masterpiece, or mix the next biggest and greatest dance hit?
Thoughts And Actions:
Does your own mindset hold you back from making progress? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? Do you talk too much? Are you so shy that you never leave the house? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem. Do some soul searching.
Career:
What level do you want to reach in your career? Is it your goal to be the boss or own your own company someday, or do you want to be the president of someone else’s company? Or, how about not actually having a job and traveling around the world playing your didgeridoo for food and bus money? It’s your life to live baby!
Education:
Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular or some area of study that you would like to pursue? What information and skills will you need to achieve these goals? Look at your passions and hobbies, there might be something there you want to become more proficient in.
Family:
Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent?
How do you want your partner or family members to see you?
Financial:
How much do you want to earn by what age in your life? What can you do to make that come about? How much life are you willing to sacrifice for how much money?
Physical:
Are there any athletic or weight loss goals you want to achieve? Are there any tricks like back flips or handstands you wish you knew how to do? Do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?
Pleasure:
How do you want to enjoy yourself? You should ensure that the majority of your life is geared toward making yourself happy for no reason other than being happy. In reality all you need is some food, shelter and love. Why waste too much time working to pay for things that really don’t bring happiness?
Service:
Do you want to make the world a better place by your existence? If so, how? Do you think service and volunteering is a waste of your time? It doesn’t matter, again, it is your life.
Once you have decided your goals in these categories, you have to assign a priority to them if you want to succeed.
Then review the goals and reprioritize until you are satisfied that they reflect the shape of the life that you want to lead.
Also, you should ensure that the goals that you have set are the goals that you want to achieve, and not what your parents, spouse, family, or employers want them to be. Don’t let the popular media mold your mind into chasing something you actually don’t care about right now.
Success only happens when you are working for your own well being because doing it for others will ensure that you sabotage your own success.
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