Setting goals – Zenith is Less!
September 21, 2010
Setting goals empowers you to think out off the box! Achieving those goals may not necessarily be a smooth ride. But that is what makes it worthwhile. It gets you thinking and makes you work towards achieving your dreams. You start to head in a direction that leads into a zone of restless ambition. An ambition will keep you on your toes, until your dreams are realized. In order to “arrive”, it becomes imperative that a structured set of goals are set with time lines clearly identified and adhered to.
Dreams can turn into a nightmare. But visions can turn into reality – if only you focus with constant energy levels that never flicker. One thing that you need to realize here is that the biggest mistake you can make is to look for motivation outside of you. Your dreams are yours. They cannot be anybody else’s. So really, how could you expect any one else to even bother with understanding the value and depth of your dreams.
External factors and influences can be distracting and in fact, sometimes demoralizing as well. Planning and setting goals are not management terms used only in business. This is a plan of action that can and should be used in every sphere of life. To set goals and chalk out clear and realistic moves in order to reach where you want is the only way to achieve what you really want in life. This is again true to both, personal and professional development. The bottom line is to never ever lose focus. Short term benefits should ideally be overlooked unless they enhance and accelerate you into the path of progress.
It is not only the common individual that benefits from such detailed exercise of setting goals and marking anchors to achieve them. The world class athletes, business houses, and all those who have attained a name in their respective fields are all party to such thought processes. It may sound like a cliché that in order to achieve something, there are many sacrifices you have to make on the way. But there is nothing truer than this!
It all begins with setting personal goals such as bigger house or a swankier car or maybe something more romantic as settling down with your beloved! It then goes on to setting life time goals, and fitting them into the bigger picture. The range of areas that are covered is quite vast and varied. The spread is across career to financial management, acquiring the required education to having a family at the appropriate time, consolidating an artistic bend, to changing your attitude to attaining physical fitness. It could also include your wants – mind you, not your needs, your wants – for pleasure, or simply your social responsibility towards the society. After all, there comes a stage when it should be pay-back time!
Set your goals, keep them short and keep them simple. Set your priorities, visit back time and again, write them down and review at every stage, most important of all, be realistic. Brainstorm to the ‘are you crazy’ levels, and constantly look for something that you may have missed out, because there is never any such thing as a perfect plan.
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