Importance Of Goals

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4 Feb 2024

If you are asked whether you have set any goals for yourself, you can have only two answers: yes or no.

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If the answer is yes then it is a very good thing because most of the people are living their life without any definite goal and you are in a much better position than them. But if the answer is no then it is a matter of some concern. Partly because even if you don't have any goal right now, you can soon think and set a goal for yourself.

-> What are goals?

Let's take some examples: A student's goal could be: "To get more than 80% marks in the final exams." An employee's goal may be to get promotion based on his performance. The goal of a housewife could be: “Starting a home based business.” A blogger's goal could be: "to take the page rank of his blog from zero to three." A social worker's goal could be: "to make all the people in a village literate."

-> Importance Of Goals

1.) To move in the right direction: When you leave home in the morning, you know where you have to go and you reach there, think what good will you do if you do not know where you have to go. do? Time will be wasted in wandering here and there. Similarly, in this life also, if you have not made goals for yourself, then your life will continue but when you look back later, you may regret that you did not achieve anything special.

The goal gives a right direction to the person. Tells him which work is important for him and which is not. If the goals are clear then we prepare ourselves accordingly. Our subconscious mind inspires us to act accordingly. If the goal is clear in the mind, then the ways to achieve it also become clear and the person moves his steps in that direction.

2.) To use one's energy properly: God has given man limited energy and limited time. Therefore it becomes important that we use it properly. The goal motivates us to do exactly this. If you do any work keeping your end-goal in mind, your concentration and energy level in it is much better.

For example: When you go to a library without the purpose of reading any particular book, you casually pick up some books and turn their pages and read a few pages, but if you complete a project report If you go with the purpose of doing something, then you choose books related to that purpose and complete your work. In both the cases, you devote the same amount of time but there is a world of difference in your efficiency. Similarly, in life too, if we do not have any definite goal in front of us, then we will keep wasting our energy and the result will not be anything special. But on the contrary, when we keep the goal in mind, our energy will be used in the right place and we will see the right results.

3.) To be successful: Whoever you ask says that he wants to become a successful person. But if you ask what will happen when he will consider himself a successful person, then very few people will be able to answer this with full confidence. The meaning of success is different for everyone. And this meaning is determined by the goal itself. So if you do not have any goal then you may be successful in the eyes of others but how will you decide in your own eyes whether you are successful or not? For this you will have to see the target set by yourself.

4.) To remove the contradictions in your mind: Many opportunities come and go in our life. No one can take advantage of all the opportunities even if one wants to. Sometimes we have to say yes and sometimes no to opportunities. In such a situation, it is natural that such situations arise when we are not able to decide what we should do. In such situations, your goal can guide you. Like my wife and I aim to open a beauty parlor, in such a situation, if today she gets two job offers simultaneously, one of which is from a parlor, then she will join it without any confusion, even if she is not working there. Got less salary compared to other offers. Whereas if there is no goal in front, then we keep evaluating all the factors and in the end, perhaps higher salary becomes the deciding factor.

Statement by Arnold H Glasgow :-

" Like football, you cannot move forward in life unless you know your goal "

Seems absolutely appropriate to me. So if you have not set any goal for yourself yet, then start thinking in this direction. Make goals, make big goals, and die only after achieving them!