Goals... what they mean to you
By ahgong
@ahgong (10064)
Singapore
September 26, 2007 2:11am CST
I was watching TV the other day and was caught off-guard by the thoughts of one of the characters.
He was thinking to himself...
The very existance of people is to strive for goals.
A person without goals lives life aimlessly.
A person who has goals but does nothing about it lives life in an illusion.
A person who has goals and strives to achieve it, lives life to the fullest.
It got me reflecting on my life thus far.
I have always planned some goals to achieve for the most part of my life. There is always a few concurrent ones that are being worked upon at all time.
For example, when I was planning for my wedding to my beautiful wife, we were already working on a nice design for our home, a nice theme for the banquet and dreaming of a nice honeymoon after that. Then we set about working on achieving them one after another.
Prior to that, I was busy planning on graduation, then a good job followed by meeting up with a nice girl who will spend the rest of my life with me. All of which I am proud to say, I have achieved. heh heh...
In the midst of all my reflection, I noticed that I tend to achieve one goal before moving on to the next.
Now, I have a new vision of my life, and are already planning new goals to achieve for the following year.
So what are your goals?
Do you plan to achieve them?
What are you doing to achieve them?
How do you plan your goals? One year at a time? Or do you come up with a whole bunch of them, then plan the goal-achievement-plan on a yearly basis?
Share leh...;)
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2 responses
@Perry2007 (2229)
• Philippines
28 Sep 07
I believe thoughts create reality. So yes we need to ponder and think of what we want to achieve, visualize and believe we have them already achieved and it will become real. My goal at the moment is to reach 24 million sales of the condominium projects I promote by the end of October 2007. Tomorrow and the days onward I will be serving my clients to with their condo requirements. I am successful and therefore I achieve my goals created above. 24 million sales is already created.
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
29 Sep 07
good for you! not everyone can stand up and say that they have achieved their goals and are planning for the next one!
So, you are into property eh?
Can I safely assume that you are dealing with properties in the Philipines only?
Which part of the country are you working at?
Getting a condo, a penthouse especially, is my dream... a long term dream.
Right now, I want to achieve my short term goal first.
24 million is a lot. Keep up the good work!
@gwendovere (1279)
• United States
26 Sep 07
I think it's very true. A person without goals has no focus, no purpose.
I set general goals: I intend to be back in college by Fall 2008. I set more specific goals: I will write poetry for 30 minutes today. It depends on what it is, how desperately I need to get it done, if there's a deadline, what's most important, etc.
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
27 Sep 07
Hey, thanks for sharing. Yes, I understand that a person without goal is a person who loses focus on life.
hmm... that is good that you are able to set goals... even on a daily basis.
Not everyone can do that. Most people just set a daily goal and that is it. No long term plans or major goal to look forward to. Guess it is the humdrum of our daily routine, we all tend to forget the bigger things in life.



