By Benecia Beyer
Establishing goals always has a positive impact on your life. A goal is a specific, assessable result that you want to generate at a certain time in the future. There is no limit to the number of goals you can set other than the limits of your imagination.
Goal setting is as important to the successful operation of your life as eating and sleeping. The only difference is that your life won't end if you don't set goals. However, without goals directing your life, you will miss out on much of what is possible for experiencing the positive emotions of excitement, aliveness, enthusiasm, joy and even happiness. Without goals, you can end up living from problem to problem instead of opportunity to opportunity. Setting goals will steer you toward opportunities while enabling you to overcome the obstacles and split through the barriers necessary for their achievement. Running your life without goals is about as effective as attempting to drive your car from the passenger's seat.
A study was done on university business school graduates who had been out of school for ten years to determine how they were succeeding in their goals. 83% of the graduates had set no goals at all. They reported that they were working hard and staying busy but had no specific plans for the future. Another 14% had goals, but there goals were not written down, only mentally remembered. This 14% were earning on an average three times the incomes of those who had no goals at all. And only 3% of the entire graduate group had written goals. But, that 3% was earning ten times what those with no goals were earning.
To be effective in the goal-setting process, you must go far beyond the usual ideas of how to set goals. And once you learn to power up your goals with the necessary strategies, you can create a level of achievement and control over your life that at this point may be beyond your imagination.
To develop your goals, drop your expectations. It is a mistake to expect that you will achieve any goal because you deserve it or because there is something in your past that entitles you to it. If what you hope to achieve in life is based on your expectations, rather than on working to reach established goals, you are setting yourself up for the possibility of disappointment. Expectations have to do with how you believe other people should behave and how the world should bend at your command. Because of this, your expectations may result in a large amount of grief, whereas established goals will result in a large amount of satisfaction and success.
3 Steps To Developing Passion and Taking Action
Passion for anything occurs at the moment you get a glimpse of the potential for the project, yourself the mission, and so on. The following steps take a look at how you develop passion:
1. Take steps towards your goals. As your plan unfolds, each step that you take toward your goals has a direct bearing on your excitement, enthusiasm, and confidence. As you enjoy little successes, your imagination explodes, and passion enters the picture. And when passion is full-blown, it's unlikely that you will abandon your goals.
2. Use your head to direct the passion that develops. Effective passion is a directed emotion that synergizes all your qualities to make a total you that is considerably greater than the sum of all those qualities. Some identify passion as "heart", because people with passion accomplish things that go beyond their physical and mental abilities.
3. Analyze what you want in life and come up with a plan for reaching those goals. Though passion can be brought on almost instantly by a life-changing event, it usually begins with a careful analysis of what you want in life. What is your direction?
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