Go for the Goal

What do you want out of life? What should we expect out of life? Should we even have any expectations about our futures? I think we should. I think we can have the life we want. I believe life goals are the greatest tools mankind has for personal improvement. Goals become our stepping stones and help us set up markers that show us our own personal road maps on a daily basis. This gives us accountability because we know where we are going and what we must do along the way to arrive at our destination. But what should a goal be?

Goals can be anything that give us direction, purpose, or help us improve. We can have physical goals for improving our health. We can have monetary goals for improving our finances. We can have relationship goals to improve our relationships. We can and should have personal goals, family goals, hobby goals, educational goals, daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annual, annual, 2, 5, 10, 15 year goals, and lifetime goals to help direct us as we journey day by day throughout our lives.

The most difficult part of the goal process is taking the first step. Once you have decided what your beliefs are, what your purpose is, what your personal commitment to your loved ones is, what you want out of life, what you want to learn, what you want to accomplish, where you want to go, who you want to meet, how much money you want to make, what you want to be and do for employment, and what you expect to do with your life - the rest is fairly easy. That sounds like the most difficult list anyone could ever compile. It doesn't need to be done all at once because as we change, so do our interests and our ideas. When this happens we acquire a new perspective on the world around us and as a result we decidedly change our ambitions and goals.

Goals can and should change. People should not stay the same. As people change so should their goals. The point is to have an objective in mind when we begin each and every day. When we know what we want to accomplish on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis then we have the blueprint to our lives laid out before us. With this blueprint of our new best selves we simply need to follow what we've outlined and go to work. If we carefully do what we've told ourselves we want to we will accomplish much because we are consitent in doing what we've told ourselves we would.

The difficulty lies in the fact that each goal must respectively hold within itself micro goals if we are to accomplish it. Macro goals are the ultimate accomplishment. Micro goals are the little baby steps done on a daily basis that helps us realize the macro goals. By understanding each of these in relationship to each other we become aware that goals must be as much a part of our lives as the air we breathe.

If, for example, we want to read 1 book per week every week, that becomes our macro goal. The micro goals come in determining which books will be read each week. We then break apart the micro goal into mini micro goals. Once we have determined which books will be read each week we must determine how many pages are in each book. If we take that number and divide it by 7 (seven days per week) we will know how many pages must be read from the book on a daily basis. If we don't know how many pages we can read per hour (pph = pages per hour) we need to find out how long it will take us to read the amount of pages it will take us per day to complete the book in a week. This will let us know how much time it will take each day in order for us to accomplish our goal of reading one book per week.

Now apply this to every goal in our lives. When we can break down our goals into macro, micro, and mini-micro goals we gain control of our lives. We know what it will take, how long it will take, what we must do, when it must be done, for how long it must be done, how frequently it must be done, and how we can accomplish everything we want to accomplish in our lives. Go for the goal, and when you do you will understand that you are in control of your life and you can make it happen because you can be who you want to be when you understand where you are going, what you are doing, and why you are doing it. You can do it! Go for the goal!

Written by Jerald M. Simon
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