Mapping Your Goals

A goal, according to the dictionary, is the aim or object towards which we direct an endeavour. A recent survey suggested that most successful people are goal orientated. They take time to name what it is they want. They build a rich picture of what achieving the goals will like and feel like. Without goal, life would be like a ship without a compass.

 A goal is a destination or a territory. Some people call it a target or an aim. The key element of a goal is that it must be personal. It mist be precise and it must have a terminal point. You cannot set a goal for another person. That would be a futile exercise.

A goal is the end of a journey. That end must be clear in the mind of the goal setter. If you do not know where you are going, how would you know when you get there? For example if you want to travel to a city, which you have never visited before, you will sit down and make a plan of how you intend to get there. You first name the city. Then find the location on a map. The location is the territory. The map is the route you take to get there. That is why they call it mapping.

If the mapping of your destination is wrong, it does not matter how efficient you are in all the other aspects of your preparations, you will only get to the wrong destination very efficiently.

Goal setting is the same. If you do not set a goal, how will you know when you have achieved it? If you want something from someone, and you cannot tell that person what it is you want, how could the person possibly help you? The clearer you are able to explain to that person what exactly you want, the more your chance of getting some help from that person. Clarity of purpose is the key.

A recent survey suggested that only 3% of the population set goals. In order words, a whopping 97% do not consider goal setting important in their lives. This is tantamount to gambling with ones precious life. Why do people fail to set goals? Why are some people afraid of setting goals?

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