Goals

goal

 

noun

1.

the result or achievement toward which effort is directed;aim; end.

2.

the terminal point in a race.

3.

a pole, line, or other marker by which such a point is indicated.

Do you have a goal?   Do you have many goals?  In the acclaimed book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People the 2nd habit is "Begin with the end in mind."   You should constantly strive to be better, better today than you were yesterday.  Better next year than you are today.  

How often do you get in your car and just start driving having no idea where you were going?  Unless you are just getting out of the house for a joy ride I would imagine you almost never get into your car without 1st knowing a destination.   To and from work, going to friends, out to eat.   You have a goal in mind.  Why go through life by just hopping in the car with no destination?   

The great thing about goals is that they are yours.  Yours to choose and yours to change so it can really be anything, there is no wrong goal.  Goals give you direction and purpose.  Goals help you establish your priorities.  Goals can be a benchmark to determine whether you are focusing your energy and effort in the right place.

A goal is basically a road map of where you want to end up in 1 year, 5 years or at the end of your life.

Talk to someone who is successful and you will find out that they had goals.   It may be one of the single most important things you can do for yourself.

Quotes on Empowerment

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. – Albert Einstein

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. – George S. Patton

Fortune favors the brave. – Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost. – Prover

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. – Lucretius

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. – Winston Churchill

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Shelley