Yogi Berra is quoted as saying, "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
" As with many of his statements, it may not make a lot of grammatical sense, but the sentiment is profound.
It presents us with the truth that if we don't have a direction, and we don't set goals, we will not only be unaware of the direction we are trying to go, but there is little chance that we will get there.
The purpose of this article is to walk you through the process of making goals for your life.
It is important to start with broad general goals and then work our way down to more specific sub-goals.
Broad Goals Lets start by asking what it is that you want to accomplish in life.
How much money you want to make, or how you want to help other people, or how healthy you want to try to be -- are all topics for goals.
For the purpose of this article, lets make a goal about helping others.
Lets say that you really like helping other people and you want to make that a goal of your life.
Once we have identified that basic desire, then we need to find the specifics of that goal.
How do you want to help them? How often? Will it be public or private? Will this be full time or part-time? After answering those questions we might come up with a goal statement something like this: My goal is to spend 20% of my yearly income to help people in the United Stated who don't have enough to eat.
Now we have a clear direction of where you want to go with your life.
It could be developed to be even more specific, but it is now possible to measure if you are moving in the right direction.
The next step is to break this down even further.
Break it Down One of the things you are going to have to do is determine which people in the United States don't have enough to eat.
So, a goal would be to meet with 20 government agencies and church programs this year to identify the hungry in your area.
Another goal might be to set up some sort of non-profit agency to manage the 20% of your income that you will be using for this work.
Once you have identified the hungry through the previous goal, then you will want to make another goal about what you want to do for each one during each month.
It is important to break these bigger goals into more manageable chunks.
Develop goals that can be met in a week's time or a month.
Then you can write out daily tasks that will move you toward that goal.
Revise Never feel as though goals cannot be changed.
You may find that you need to reach beyond the United States in your effort to help the hungry, so you modify your basic goal.
Life changes, so goals must too.
It will be amazing what you can accomplish if you only know where it is that you want to go, and have developed some plan for how to get there.
Make a difference with your life.
Set goals.
" As with many of his statements, it may not make a lot of grammatical sense, but the sentiment is profound.
It presents us with the truth that if we don't have a direction, and we don't set goals, we will not only be unaware of the direction we are trying to go, but there is little chance that we will get there.
The purpose of this article is to walk you through the process of making goals for your life.
It is important to start with broad general goals and then work our way down to more specific sub-goals.
Broad Goals Lets start by asking what it is that you want to accomplish in life.
How much money you want to make, or how you want to help other people, or how healthy you want to try to be -- are all topics for goals.
For the purpose of this article, lets make a goal about helping others.
Lets say that you really like helping other people and you want to make that a goal of your life.
Once we have identified that basic desire, then we need to find the specifics of that goal.
How do you want to help them? How often? Will it be public or private? Will this be full time or part-time? After answering those questions we might come up with a goal statement something like this: My goal is to spend 20% of my yearly income to help people in the United Stated who don't have enough to eat.
Now we have a clear direction of where you want to go with your life.
It could be developed to be even more specific, but it is now possible to measure if you are moving in the right direction.
The next step is to break this down even further.
Break it Down One of the things you are going to have to do is determine which people in the United States don't have enough to eat.
So, a goal would be to meet with 20 government agencies and church programs this year to identify the hungry in your area.
Another goal might be to set up some sort of non-profit agency to manage the 20% of your income that you will be using for this work.
Once you have identified the hungry through the previous goal, then you will want to make another goal about what you want to do for each one during each month.
It is important to break these bigger goals into more manageable chunks.
Develop goals that can be met in a week's time or a month.
Then you can write out daily tasks that will move you toward that goal.
Revise Never feel as though goals cannot be changed.
You may find that you need to reach beyond the United States in your effort to help the hungry, so you modify your basic goal.
Life changes, so goals must too.
It will be amazing what you can accomplish if you only know where it is that you want to go, and have developed some plan for how to get there.
Make a difference with your life.
Set goals.
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