Got Goals?
Now we all hope we have more than six months to live but the question raises an interesting angle to how we spend our time and why we should try and squeeze as much out of life as possible through goal setting and wise time management.
Many people have a hard time setting goals because they lack the vision to see all the possibilities in front of them for a specific and measurable period of time. By not looking at time, by not peering into the future, they put off until tomorrow what should have been done yesterday. They procrastinate and days turn into weeks and week to months and months to years. Before we know it, a lifetime has passed us by.
Do you know what causes people to procrastinate? Procrastination is a war between what we "ought to do" versus "what we want to do". For example, most of us "ought to" lose some weight but most of also "want to" eat. What is the result? We procrastinate on the diet, putting it off day after day, pound after pound until the next meal or the tomorrow that never comes. Think about your personal addictions or vices and you will see there is a direct conflict between what you ought to do and what you want to do.
Only when "you want to do what you ought to do" does real change and progress occur. And this mentality won't come to pass until the thing you want (your goal) has a value equal to or greater than the perceived cost to get it. Then, and only then, will you change direction and take action and overcome procrastination.
Like I said, many people have a hard time setting goals and if they do set goals, they have a hard time achieving them. Why? Because the goals they set are often unreasonable and unachievable. One of the keys to success is setting goals that you can achieve without killing yourself. As far as the vision thing is concerned: look out over the next year and ask yourself what major accomplishments you want from it by this time next year. Then reverse engineer those major goals down into manageable component parts that can be achieved over a twelve (12) month period and ask yourself: what action do I have to take today, this week, this month? Set reasonable goals and objectives and then, get them done.
To your success!
Copyright © 2006 James W. Hart, IV All Rights Reserved
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