Organize Your Life Through Goal Setting
April 5, 2008 – 12:38 amWe all play different roles in life and one can only assume that you want to achieve your maximum potential in all of them. My primary roles are Self, Wife, Mother, and Professional. Let’s begin by asking a simple self help question, “If you don’t set goals for yourself, how do you know if you have accomplished anything?”
That sense of achievement is a big motivator to keep on climbing those mountains of life, so it is essential to get your priorities in order and set goals, achieve, and give yourself credit every one of your successes.
The concept of “goals” is common in the work place but when it comes to using it around the house, some folks perceive it as too big and cold home management.
This is unfortunate because at home, where we play the roles of spouse, parent, and household manager, organization and achievement are key to all other successes. To those folks I recommend to use the term “life list” instead. When it is time to put pen to paper, if you prefer, scribble “LIFE LIST” at the top of yours. Maybe even put some doodles around it. Whatever makes you excited to continue.
Your goal setting starts with brainstorming. Carve out a quiet time and place to contemplate what is important to you and what you want to achieve in your life today, as well as in the distant future. Open your mind to include your wildest dreams, regardless of cost or plausibility at the moment. From this page, draw your goals, dreams and desires and start to prioritize them.
Now you are ready to make your lists. Goals come in many forms. You will start by making a heading of short term goals and another for long term goals.
In the short term you might want to clean out the garage. In the long term you may want to buy a business. Then expand your headings to include anything else so that every goal resulting from your brainstorming has a place to sit, such as “5 year goals” , “Lifetime goals”, “wildest wishes”, etc.
Make it enjoyable but realize, you are taking a powerful first step toward realizing your dreams because once you chart and realize your successes, you will be amazed by how motivated you are to achieve more, and how easily those achievements will come.
Tags: Personal Development
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