Considering all you have got at your disposal-your talents, gift, powers, abilities, skills, knowledge, exposure, experiences and opportunities; is what you have produced with your life the best you could have done? The truth is that your results do not reflect your potential. They are a reflection of your mental conditioning. Unless you alter your beliefs systems to become a different person, you will continue in the same trajectory and most likely even get worse.
The best way to predict your great future is to design it. Designing your life is much more important than building a house and yet many people take it so casually. The greatest pull on you should and must be the pull toward your future. For it to pull you, it must be well planned. Ten year from today you will arrive somewhere: The big question though is ‘WHERE?’
To plan your future you must have GOALS. You cannot get to your destination unless you have a destination in your mind to begin with. To get to your desired destination, you must have a very clear well drawn mental pattern-Know what you want out of life and the harbour for which you are headed. You cannot have that figured out if you don’t have well written down goals.
Your mind is what the psychologists call cybernetics-goal reaching and goal achieving. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your life. Your goals should be extensions of your values-the kind of person you want to be and the kind of life you want to live. How do you come up with goals?
Think in terms of decades and decide what you want: What do you want to see? What do you want to do? What do you want to have? Where do you want to go? Where do you want to live? How wealthy do you want to be? You need a variety of goals in the following six areas to design and steer the direction of your life.
1) Career/Business Goals:
What level of responsibility do I seek?
How much authority do I want to exercise?
What prestige do I expect to gain from my work?
2) Financial/Income/Economic Goals:
How much do you want to earn next year, five years and ten years from now?
How much do you want to save and accumulate in the course of your working life?
What income levels do you want to attain?
What financial support do you want to give my children in their early adult years?
3) Social/Relationships Goals
In ten years, what kind of friends do I want to have?
What social groups would I like to be in?
What community leadership positions would I Like to hold?
4) Family/Home:
What kind of standard of living and lifestyle do you want to create for yourself and your family?
What Kind of house do I want to live in?
Where Do I want go for holidays?
5) Physical/Health Goals:
What kind of activities do I want to be engaged in?
How much do I want to weigh?
6) Spiritual Goals:
What is my life truly about-what did I come here to do?
What Legacy am I going to leave behind?
Make the kind of goals that will make something of you in order to achieve them. Use your goals to grow. What kind of person do you need to become to get all what you want? What skills do you need to acquire? What obstacles do you need to overcome? Decide what you are prepared to give in exchange for your goals. Make sure your goals are affecting you all day all the time every day you live.
(An excerpt from the book titled Command your future by Stephen Kigwa).
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