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Do You Set Goals?

Planning the Path of Your Life

From the lens Achieving Your Goals!.

Identifying and Setting Goals is an important component in realizing and achieving those goals in your life.

Do you set goals? If so, do you use the method described here? Do you use another method?

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  • corteeze Jul 19, 2011 @ 12:33 pm | delete
    Yes, I got in the habit of making goals for myself -- from daily achievements to five-year plans -- for all aspects of my life. They are not etched in stone, and leave plenty of room for flexibility and spontaneity, but they serve as a roadmap for where I'd like to travel on this life journey.
  • Dynamic1 Jul 21, 2011 @ 3:20 pm | delete
    As far as I am concerned, your comment serves as a concise summary of how to achieve goals. Actively make and pursue goals, yet keep them flexible as you grow, mature and change. Your analogy is a road map, which serves very well. The one I like is either a flight plan or a ships course - you need to know where you are going before you leave the airport or harbour, otherwise you will not get there.

    Thanks for your comment!
  • Jan 2, 2011 @ 10:53 pm | delete
    I have always written down goals as well as visualize them.....I think I really like seeing the written word, it's quite powerful and serves as a 'shopping list' for the soul.
  • HorseAndPony Jan 28, 2010 @ 12:10 pm | delete
    I do not set goals. I know what I need and need to do and just do it. I believe that setting goals often leads people to a path of failure. I think in order to be successful it is important to be flexible and able to modify or completely abandonee both your personal and professional plan of action. However, it you have so many goals and contracts set where does one find this freedom. I think that it is good to continuously progress in life/work. So, if you are no longer progressing make a change. Even if it means abandoning years of work. If the change you made does not work, change again. So many people that I have met stay on a path of failure because they are achieving their goals. I believe that people should spend more time improving their self-esteem and then they will better understand what they need to do to progress in life.
  • Dynamic1 Jan 28, 2010 @ 1:10 pm | delete
    Good Points. Thanks for the feedback!

    My goals, to date, have all been those within my mind. I think the value of writing them down and going so far as to make contracts with yourself is to strengthen them in your mind, however, your goals MUST remain flexible and dynamic, not static. If circumstances change, change your goal. If the goal is no longer valid or realistic, let it go. As life changes, goals should change accordingly.

    I suggest the benefit of writing them down is that you are using both Visual and Kinesthetic components of the mind to help fix the goal in your sub-conscious. Ideally, the goal should be reviewed periodically to determine if it is still valid and appropriate and, if so, read aloud (so as to incorporate the Auditory as well).

    I think the key is the get your conscious and sub-conscious minds congruent, syncronous and focussed on your goals.

    Bottom line: Keep using whatever is working successfully. If you want to try different ideas (i.e. Goals as a contract), do so, but evaluate them with regard to how they work for you!

    A Final thought - A failure is only a failure (rather than a defeat) if it stops you. A defeat may indicate you are pushing your boundaries and, as a result, growing.

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