GOAL SETTING

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into visible." - Anthony Robbins

 

Goal Setting

Usually in the beginning of a new year, lots of people make New Year resolutions. Interestingly, a study was carried out and it revealed that:

25 percent of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions after one week.
60 percent of people abandon them within six months. (The average person makes the same New Year’s resolution ten separate times without success.)
Even after a heart attack, only 14 percent of patients make any lasting changes around eating or exercise.
This is how the story goes with resolutions. The alternative is Goal Setting. I have long understood that Goals setting is an amazing principle that facilitates growth on steady and consistent basis in life.

One wise man gave an illustration and said “Say you were to travel from wherever you are to Calgary. That’s the goal and you had never been there before. As you start in the direction (You'd not even know what direction to start, without first knowing where you are then, figuring where you want to go) and begin driving, it won’t be long before you come to a fork in the road (Just like life right, you start going in this direction and opportunities arise and you have to decide) you ether take the Hope/Princeton turn off or continue on the #1. Well with out a map you will end up guessing instead of looking at the map and saying, this is the route I want to take. That’s not too bad, because you will still get there by going the Hope/Princeton it will just take to hours, longer but when you get to Kamloops and you keep going straight instead of taking the fork toward Salmon Arm, you will be heading north - and never reach your goal. Bottom line is you would never journey across the country with out a map. Then why in the world would we journey through life without goals.”
 

It was Paul who said, "…I do not run aimlessly…" I say to you therefore, be careful not to go through 2015 aimlessly. Not necessarily because you don’t have anything good in mind you want to do, but simply because you know clear cut targets to aim at. It was Seneca that said, "He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways." To cap it all. Viktor Frankl says, "Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."