Goals In life – How to set the Goals and Achieve them
December 22nd, 2008
Many people have different description for Goals.
So what are goals in terms of succeeding in life?
Most of the people in this world want money, they set goal to earn more money because they think money would solve all their problem. True, but some people have enough money for 2 generations but they still set goals. Their goals in life would be about health, children, family and many more other then money.
Whatever it may be, you need to have a goal in life. If you do not have a goal in life you are nothing but a dead meat or dead fish which is getting carried away in the water.
I have seen some type of people wake up every morning and they just live the life as it comes. Every man’s typical day is something like this
- Wake up in the morning
- Read newspaper or watch news channel
- Get ready to office
- Have breakfast
- Go to office
- Do the same repeated work with no change
- Have a tea break
- Continue with work
- Have lunch
- Continue the work
- Come back home
- Play with children
- Spend time with family
- Sleep
Now, everyone in this category sets a goal.
You set the alarm to get up at 6.00 AM, that is a goal you are setting to wake up at 6AM.
You set some time for getting ready to go to office, That is a time bound goal you are setting.
These things are short term goals in your life. If you split this short term goal into micro goals, see how it works.
- You need to go to office at 9.00AM
- You to need to leave your home at 8.00 AM to reach the office at 9.00AM
- You need to have the breakfast at 7.45AM
- You need to take bath at 7.00AM to have your breakfast at 7.45AM
- You need to wake up at 6.45AM to take bath at 7.00AM
- You need to sleep at 10.00PM to get up at 6.45AM
Now do you see how I have broken down the goal that I set to reach the office at 9.00AM
This is how you need to set the goals. You can break any goals in to many pieces to make it easy and to chart down the action plan. Once you do this you will feel that you can achieve that goal. You will have the sense of accomplishment before even achieving the goals. This will make you happier.
What if you set a goal to get promoted to the next level in your job? How can you break it down?
The same way that I showed you above. First set the goal in a SMART way as I have explained in my previous post. Then start breaking it down to pieces as shown above. Write your action plan to achieve each pieces of your long term Goals.
You will see that you are achieving the goals very soon.
Categories: Goal
If you’d like a tool for setting your goals, you can use this web application:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.
Great Post