A few weeks ago, i was reading an article at Get Rich Slowly that stressed the importance of setting goals. The point was, if you don’t set specific goals, how can you accomplish anything? How will you stretch yourself if you don’t have something to push yourself towards?
There is some evidence to suggest that written goals, in particular, will make you more likely to reach them. I decided to try and write down 100 goals for my life. After all, there are lots of things i want to do! It was harder than i thought. I wrote and wrote and had a huge page full of goals, big and small. But when i first counted them up i still only had 47. Eventually though, i was able to come up with more than 100 goals. Some are really important, and some are not, but they are all things i’d like to do at some point. Some of them i could do today if i decided to, and some will a lifelong pursuit.
I showed my initial list to Lance, and his first question was, “Why aren’t you doing more to make these things happen?” Good question. From now on, i’m going to make an effort to live a more conscious, directed life. I recently came across an opportunity to take a CPR and First Aid class in the evenings after work, and i’m going to take it. That will be one item i can cross off of this list, and hopefully more will soon follow. I’m going to update the list as i go.
Here they are – my 100+ Goals.
I would challenge anyone to complete this same exercise – make a list of the things you want to do, and then start taking conscious action to accomplish them.