Sunday, January 16, 2011

continuing my thoughts on .......... goal setting

As strongly as I have come to believe that setting goals can sometimes limit my growth, I have just as strongly come to believe that having a clear vision of the life I want, is the key to unlimited growth. The operative word here being - clear. If I am not clear about the kind of life I want to live, I am going to be indecisive, unsure, and much more likely to allow other people and events to influence the direction of my life.

Jim Rohn (see a link to his website below) encourages us to ask ourselves these questions:

1. Who do I want to be?

2. What do I want to do?

3. What do I want to have?

4. What do I want to see?

5. Where do I want to go?

6. Who do I want to share it with?

I know it is not enough to simply ask myself these questions, and then push them to the back of my mind. It is not enough to think about what I would "like" the answers to be, and then push those answers to the back of my mind. It is not enough to tell myself I will ask myself these questions later - when I get my life on track and can think about the future. None of those are acceptable, if I am to live the life I want to live. Because - my life is NOW! It won't wait until I have more time. It won't stand still until I have more courage. It won't stop because I don't like the direction it's going. My life will keep going, until the end, whether I participate in it or not.

And those are my final thoughts on that.

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