Goals Yet to be Achieved
Posted by: DL / Category: Educational Matters, Family Matters, Life Matters, Social Matters
Almost everyone has had different goals for themselves during their lifetimes. Sometimes people are more interested in attaining wealth, advancing their careers, starting a family, traveling, or what have you.
For me, I decided to attain a good education, while I was still young and energetic. I worked in several different career fields, gained the knowledge and experience I needed, advanced my career, did a minuscule amount of traveling, and finally~ started a family.
To me, starting a family has been the most rewarding experience of them all, by a long shot. It’s a lot of hard work, mind you, but it can’t be beat.
There are those times when the lack of sleep, or the countless tantrums gets to most parents (including me), but honestly you’ve got to take it with a grain of salt. There’s positive and negative experiences in everything we do. We can’t focus on all the negatives and keep it from trying to attain our goals and enriching our lives, beyond our wildest dreams.
Something that I wholeheartedly recommend, and something that has helped me a lot along the way, is keeping detailed lists. Lists for: daily “to do’s”, goals for a year from now, goals for five years from now, and life goals. Honestly, even if things don’t work out or completely change in your originally goals, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. We evolve as human beings. Every year we experience more and more things, and thus it causes our goals to morph into something a bit different.
Most of my lifelong goals as a child are much the same as my lifelong goals today, the little details may have changed a bit, but I pretty much knew what I wanted. But, that’s just me. A lot of people don’t know exactly what they want out of life, and yet others believe that they don’t deserve to have monstrously huge dreams because they’ll never attain them. The idea is, “You must dream it to try and acheive it”.
Goal lists are important to keep us focused, but they’re not meant to limit us. We can always do more than we planned on doing, or change some goals along the way. But, there is no better feeling than when you know that you’re achieving goals that you’ve had for most of your life. It’s a feeling of utter satisfaction that washes over you and makes you feel very proud for all that you have achieved. Don’t short change yourself and push this article aside as fluff, the information I’ve given you is tried and true and is meant to help you.
