Written down Goals are better

There’s a saying; “You don’t know what you are thinking until you see what you say”.  Your mind is a busy place and so it should be.  It’s function is to constantly observe, learn, adjust.  In such a busy place ideas shift and change and it is difficult to recall where you started.  Unless we write down goals, we achieve things on the fly and often by accident.  To live a purposeful life, it helps to write down our goals. The process crystallises what we really want.

Write down all your aspirations, your dreams, your wishes.  Prioritise them and decide what you want to do this year, or this month.  Then create the steps to success. 

But before you do:  consider each goal in light of your values.  Does this goal align with the greater priorities in my life?  One women tells the story of having studying on her list year after year.  However when she considered her ‘failure’ it turns out that she valued time with her growing family more.  A man had to choose between his family being well settled in one city and his career in another city.  He choose his career.   These examples do not indicate right or wrong, and moral judgments are not required.  The point is that unless your goals tie into who you are, you will find them difficult to achieve.