My goals and actions
Goals are the measurable milestones that mark your progress towards achieving your vision. They are SMARTER steps that will move you in a planned direction that you want to go.
The beliefs and behaviours that you are engaged in are what people around you will see, along with the application of your skills and actions that will ultimately give you the outcome that you are seeking to achieve.
Your attitude towards planning and goal-setting will determine the outcomes – positive or negative – you will achieve and experience for the rest of your life.
Vision sets goals and actions
The first stage in the construction of any house is the creation of a set of plans and drawings that encapsulates the end vision of how the house will eventually look like. Without a detailed set of plans and drawings, it will be impossible for those involved in building the house to know what the end product should look like.
People who are not actively working towards a bigger vision in life will often experience life as being meaningless and directionless, without any purpose. You can end up spending years, going around in circles.
But the good news is that life does not have to be this way.
The vision and goals that you develop for your future cannot be what other people want or expect from you. The purpose is not to please others but to find something that will motivate you for the rest of your life (or, for the next couple of years at least).
Goal-setting allows you to take control of your life’s direction. It provides you with a benchmark that can be used to determine whether you are making progress towards these goals, or whether you are not.
Goal achievement requires commitment, patience, persistence and perseverance. When any of these elements are missing from the goal-setting equation, your chances of fulfilling these goals are limited.
Make your goals both inspiring and relevant to you to maximise your chances of goal-setting success. Ask yourself the question, “If I were to share my goal with other people, would they see my goals as being significant and meaningful, or selfish and small?“
Unfortunately, many people commit their lives to pursue empty goals of power, ambition and making money. They only to end up neglecting their family and losing the respect of their spouses and children. Upon reaching the end of their lives, they look back with regret, mourning the relationships that they ‘missed out on’.