Goal Setting

                  

Everything achieved on earth was as a result of someone's set goal. from simple to complex discoveries, from the world of art to the world of science, from common bicycle to the plane you see today. When you don’t set goals then it means wishful thinking. ‘’if wishes were horses beggars will ride’’. Is a popular adage we all know about. When we wish it’s just like mirage that will never come to be. when we talk about mirage we talk about something that appears to be but its isn’t in reality. Take for instance when driving, from a long distance it’s seems as if there is water in front, but when you get closer the sight of  water disappears from the actual position of your vehicle, people use words like ‘’ i wish i had the privilege, ‘’i wish that house was mine. Wishful thinking never comes to existence, if it does ask the beggar on the street if they would still have time to beg. ask the labourer who works all day trying to survive if he would still go out in search for a job. We must develop the habit of setting goals.

 A goal is an objective or a purpose we set in order to achieve our target. when we talk about goal we talk about clear and precise vision for achievement. No one stumbles into success without a goal. A dream is just a dream, but a goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. Ask yourself if what you do today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. Check out your friends and the call you receive daily. Are they drawing you to your goals? Change your friends but don’t change your goals. The places you visit, the books you read, your phone contact, the television or radio program you listen to are they drawing you closer to your goal.

A boy was asked what he did love to be in the nearest future, he said ‘’I want to be a doctor’’. So what are you plans in achieving it. ‘’ I don’t have any plan for now’’. Do you read science related books. ‘’ no I don’t, but I read art related courses often’’. A boy of this nature can never be a doctor. He would only be dreaming.

Debby built a nice house in the town, finally her dream had come true. she would no longer spend money on transportation to work any longer. She began to be a lot more early to work like never before, so one day the boss decided to ask her Debby you come to office much earlier now unlike before how come about that. ‘’ yea i just finished my house and I now live there, I mean the house closer to the town’’. Wow the boss exclaimed, and went further to ask her how she was successful and she said ‘’ I had to set realistic goals like removing 20% from my salary, borrowed money from my brother, sold my car and some other things that was not that useful to me, and that was how I got enough money to complete this house’’. That’s the use of goal setting, if she only wished for the house to be completed am sure the house would have still remained like the way it was. For you to become successful in that field you have to work toward that direction that would lead to success in that field. If you work opposite then you would only get a different result. Goal setting is like the step by step process we take in other to get want we want.

Take for instance A man decides to travel to Italy from korea the next day. His goal setting would be to wake up in the morning, he must have boarded a flight may be the day before his trip to Italy, take his bath, put on his cloths neatly dressed he heads for the airport, he then gets to the airport he doesn’t just say ‘’ well I am now at the airport, I would follow any plane I see’’, he would simply sit quietly for the announcement of his own schedule plane for Italy, when it is his turn he gets into the plane, he arrives at the airport, lets assume he doesn’t know where he is going to, he would have to call the person he is going to see in Italy, he would say something like ‘’ hello just arrived Italy, I am beside belgin airline 707  I am putting on a dark suit. All this details come to play so the person that’s coming to pick him would not suffer much inconveniences. now from the first process of boarding a plane in Korea till he gets to his destination in Italy is his goal setting. You can’t just sit at a place and expect your goals to come look for you. Life is but a place of wishes without making plans. Goal setting helps us to plan on a long run. Some organization  plan how they want to look like 10 to 15 years from now.

10 years from now What type of house do you want to live in, how many rooms should it be should it be a bungalow or a duplex, how many children do you plan to have, what position do you want to hold in your place of work, I want to own a car, what kind of car do you want to own, what model, what income level do you want to attain. When you start to strategize in accordance with what you plan to have that is goal setting. ‘’if you fail to plan, you have planned to fail’’.  The best way to set goals is to give it a time plan, given it that time would push you into action from today until it comes to reality. If your goal  are not definite and precise it keeps reoccurring in the future as a result of procrastination of what can be done now.

 Note this No goal is worth achieving without writing it down on paper. When we write our goals on paper it becomes a vision there is a strong force attached to writing. A man without vision is a man with no future, he is equal to a dead man yet still walking.

Sitting quietly inside my room one afternoon, an idea flashed on my mind why not you write a book i quickly picked up a piece of paper and wrote down the title of the book and the procedures that would be used to ascertain a properly and successful written documentation. When i did that as if by a stroke of some sort of invisible force which i cannot explain i began to write.

Writing down plans or ideas is such a powerful tools for achievement.

Your vision is your tomorrow that you have not attained but hope to attain in the near future.

Without a vision in life, you are as good as dead, you are like a man navigating the sea of life  but blindfolded.

You cannot make it in life without a vision.

‘’ where there is no vision the people perish’’. You cannot go farther than your vision can carry. God saw the whole universe through a vision before he created it.

Before your vision can become a reality, there must be a concrete plan. For any vision to survive the visioner must have a prior idea as to what he is aiming at.

When we have vision without setting goals to reach forward to them is like building a house without an architectural design.

When we set goals we become definite, if you don’t set goals then i means you can settle for less, you hear people say ‘’ i had expected more than this, but since i have no option may be its fate that i should accept’’. defitness of purpose makes you focused without settling for less in life until you get what you want.

I was outside on a cool Saturday morning, when a small boy of two years walked up to me and showed me the money the dad gave to him. he gave me the money to hold and came back later to collect his money  i stretched my hands into my pocket and gave him  five times what he gave me but he refused and insisted i gave him the exact money the dad gave to him before living the house. What an innocent but definite child, he wanted nothing more, or nothing less than what he was given.

If we all become definite in our carrier, aspirations, goal we could achieve anything.

He wouldn’t listen after much persuasion and so i gave him his 10 cent and he left for the shop happily.

 A goal setter is a goal getter

A dream is just a dream , A goal is a dream with a deadline.

You must learn to set goals, because it is not enough to dream.