Goals - Hit on them

Can you shoot a target you cannot see . Not unless you are as great as arjun(mahabharat).

I don’t think we normal people can shoot the target you cannot see.

Can you built software without knowing the requirements.

Even a five year will anwer these questions . These sound like obvious facts .

But when it come to us the same facts seem so blur.

We don’t know what is our goal .

A goal is something which can be measured in quantity and in time .

I heard people saying they have goals like

• I want to own a company.
• I want to help others
• I want to be successful in my career

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Are these goals . Nope they are wishes .

Your Wishes should drive your goals .

Goals for the above e.g could be

• In two years (by jan 2009) I will have Product X which my company will be selling and I will have 10 employees under me with a turn over of Y.
• I will teach 3 students maths who are poor by the end of 2007.
• I will make sure that I have become TG2 in next 3 yrs (by jan 2010) .

These are some long term (or medium duration goals set for the wishes we have).

Now you should set goals for the current year , current month, current week, current day such that you can measure them .

Goals have to be realistic in the sense the should not be over or under ambitious .

How to set such goals ? Know yourself . and with experience and evaluating whether you could complete your previous goals or no you learn and set goals appropriately.

Write down Goals on paper. This helps in laying stress on it .

Read you long term goals everyday. This helps us focus.

I am very bad at goal settings . But will improve .

Whenever something is going wrong in life you just need to learn a new skill .

So simple yet so difficult.