Do You Set Goals For Yourself?

I prefer to let my life run away without a plan. I am often disappointed with the plan I've made. plans are not always as expected. I more often get lucky without thinking about goals. I have been more comfortable like this.

hi tina I am seriously thinking of really getting that ugly
fat off me, and getting my blood glucose r eadings down to normal, I think I can do it if I really really try. also learn to
think positively, and do more writing,and think oh sure somebody will buy this. Maybe those are dreams but yet I could make them come true,perhaps.

I set goals for myself but never make New Year's resolutions. It puts too much pressure on a person, I think. My goals have no deadline, no date to be done by. When I set goals, I begin working on them right away and they'll get done when they get done. Life is short and I don't want to be stressing over reaching deadlines. I'm just happy to be alive each day. I try every day to be the best person I can be and am always open to improving myself, so I have no real need for New Year's resolutions.

I do NOT make new year resolutions, but I am a goal-setting fanatic.

I have long-range goals detailed on my white board. I have detailed steps to attain those goals, with progress bars and dates. Every morning, my first job when starting work is to re-write my priorities list, with my daily goals, and I monitor it throughout the day.

Surveys show that only 3% of people have goals and write them down.
Another 10% have goals and plans but keep them in their head.
87% drift through life without definite plans.

The 3% who have goals and write them down accomplish 50 to 100 times more than the 10% who have goals but do NOT write them down.

So, yes, I have specific, measurable goals with steps towards achievement.

Yes, I am involved in 4 projects this month. I am doing Nanowrimo, a short story contest, a 30 poems in 30 days fund raiser for The Center for New Americans, a cool nonprofit near where I live, and a self inflicted 100 poems in 100 days featuring 100 prompts from my favorite local poet. I'm also posting here and at Blogit, another site I write for.

I try to. But I set realistic goals which I think I will be able to achieve. Although the goals seem impossible or a bit hard, I'll still try, as long as they are within the realistic realm. It seems so fast that 2010 is fast approaching; never really realizing it at all.

I guess I just go with the flow, myself. I used to make New Year's Resolutions all the time but I never did stick with them. As a result, I just quit making them. It is good to set goals, though. For example, I have been wanting to do a genealogy on my family for a long time. I started to do it one time but I never did finish it. I've been told that it's very interesting but it does take a lot of time. That's why I never finished it. I've had other more important things or things I wanted to do that take a lot of time as well. Maybe someday I will get around to finishing it. Kathy.

I do tend to let life take me along on its own path. I set myself small goals, like my news years resolution is to buckle down and learn more Bulgarian. Other than that I just generally like to see how things go, what crops up and make decisions from there.

i have this goal i want to fulfill and accomplish before this year ends. i don't usually make a goal . only this one it means so much to me and i will be totally happy if i will be able to accomplish this goal as early as possible. it is not really an easy goal that i have set my mind to accomplish . it is something that i have been putting off for so many years like 16 years ago already just because of the things i have to sacrifice to fulfill this goal. but i am not getting younger and i feel that this is the time that i actually sacrifice what needs to be sacrificed to reach this goal or somewhat like a dream i had in my heart even when i was a child. i want to see this goal fulfilled in my life. this is one thing that i want to see happen while i am still alive and i can't afford to die without achieving this goal. not that i will not survive physically. but it just means so much to me like it is my greatest dream in my life.

I just go with the flow, but even tho I don't make resolutions, I have lost a good bit of weight this year.