I used this strategy after I retired to give my live new direction. I felt a bit lost because I wasn’t living with purpose. I had this gnawing feeling that I wasn’t doing what God wanted. I’ve always been good with the process of goal setting, so I didn’t really examine the method I was using as I tried to figure out what y new goals should be.
One day I woke up and realized that I was trying to set my goals backwards.
The Best Time to Set Goals Was Yesterday, The Second Best Time is Now!
GoalSetting-BruceRaineWhere are you going?
Where do you want to go?
Many people are unable to answer these questions because they’ve never thought about them. They get up and go about their lives like they have no choice about what they do. They just float down the river of life and go wherever the current takes them. That will not get us where we want to go, assuming we even know where that is.
Attitude Determines Destiny is not only the title of my book, but it’s reality! Attitude is everything! If we want to make positive changes, we must take action. Some advice will not make sense at first or may not seem to bear fruit for a long time, but if we want change, we will follow it anyway. Consider the following example…
The two most important elements to manage are cash and time, with time being the most important by far. We live in a world where people seem to be in such a hurry to get where they’re going that they don’t really stop and think about where they’re going or why.
Goals are an important part of effort. They will determine what effort we give, when we give it, and how we give it. Our effort is much more effective if we focus it o a single goal or a small group of goals.
Let’s look at the sun’s rays as an example.
Why is it that some people apply so much effort to what they do?I visited the Buddy Holly museum in Lubbuck, Texas and was amazed by how much influence he had on other performers. Although you may not know who Buddy Holly was, you probably have seen and heard the results of his influence.
Where are you going?
Where do you want to go?
Many people are unable to answer these questions because they’ve never thought about them. They get up and go about their lives like they have no choice about what they do. They just float down the river of life and go wherever the current takes the. That will not get us where we want to go, assuming we even know where that is.
I wasted many years of my life because I lived in the past. I always felt cheated because my family and my childhood weren’t happy and fun. How naive I was to think that everyone had happy childhoods except me! It took years of counseling to get over my past and to start living in the present.
A real problem for many people is discovering their true gifts and talents.
When we were born, we already possessed our gifts and talents. Unfortunately, we must find out for ourselves what those gifts and talents are to be truly happy.
I believe that we can find contentment in a career by using one of these skills, but we won’t
It would be great if we had a device like a bathroom scale that we could use to measure self-confidence or belief in yourself. We could measure how much we believed in ourselves at various times along the way to our goal to see if we were improving in self-confidence. That would also help us to determine if we needed to work on our self-confidence in some way.
