Setting goals
While the importance of setting goals is uncontested, the way in
which it is set is always confused and misunderstood by many of
us. Setting goals is a complicated matter, with its own share of
different parameters and requirements. Before you set your
goals, you will need to study all those intricacies of goals and
its importance in life. Setting goals for your life also involve
some amount of intelligence and smartness, as setting goals and
writing them on a piece of paper also needs a prior knowledge.
Goal is akin to destination or a place where one wants to reach.
The manner in which you reach that destination, however, varies
from place to place. The big city of New York can be reached in
several hundred ways, by plane, ship, and road and even by
walking.
You can also take thousands of routes to reach Manhattan. But to
reach New York, you need a map as well, without which you're
lost on the way. Plainly speaking, to reach New York, you would
have made several decisions; first of all you decide to go to
New York and then you create a goal in your mind that somehow
you'll reach New York. Once you have decided, you will also
prepare your travel schedule and fix a date to reach the city.
You may visit a bookshop find a detailed map of the world and
the city. This may help you to find the bearing and the location
of the city. This map will help you to reach your ultimate
destination.
There are many lessons in the examples given above:
1. New York is your goal and a clear destination, and you want
to reach it at any cost.
2. The place where you're living now is comparable to your
present status in life
3. The travel map is similar to your action plan to reach the
goal. However, you can even change your travel plan from time to
time. Travel map is your compass and a guide.
4. Once you start from your home town and start traveling to
New York, you would have put into motion your action plan. This
is the execution stage of your whole operation.
However the most important aspect that is observed in the above
example is that you set a goal that is not negotiable and that
can not be changed at any cost, once it is decided that you want
that particular thing or object. This analogy demonstrates the
importance of goals in our daily life.
Goal setting must be treated as a noble work, as it assures
people to reach their favorite dreams and aspirations. When you
write down your goals and read them everyday, you'll also
remember that noble task, just because you want to catch your
dream as soon as possible. Goal setting is powerful and once
your goals are reached, you will reach your pinnacle. Start
setting goals today, at least to buy a pair of shoes! You will
realize its importance only when you find its immense potential.