You can see, from the previous posts and exercises it is easy to do simple things, and doing just one thing a day leads to achieving major goals over time. It doesn’t matter how big the task is, it requires simple steps to achieve. Today, we’ll begin devising the goals you have in life and breaking them down into easy to manage steps that you can take on every day.
You have to devise long term goals to break down, without these you’ll meander through each day the same as the last. There are five aspects to our lives that have to be maintained.
Career.
What is it you want to do? Income is only part of this equation. For a career to be fulfilling it has to add some meaning to your life, as well as financial reward. What do you want out of your career, and what would you pursue as your ideal career?
Financial.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it sure goes a long way. How much do you need to live comfortably, afford yourself a future, and make your growth possible? A thousand dollars a week, a million? How much do you want?
Health
Nothing else matters in your life if you cannot enjoy it. This covers fitness, diet and emotional well being. Do you want to be able to run marathons when you’re sixty? Play ice hockey? Do you really think sitting in front of the TV will make this possible?
Relationships.
No man is an island- would you like to be able to communicate better with friends, have a stronger more passionate relationship with your partner? Would you like to know your parents better? What do you want out of your associations with people?
Recreation.
You work to live, but how would you like to live? Would you like to learn to Dance? Build a Yacht? When you finish your days work what do you want to do?
Your exercise for today is to write a sentence on each of these topics- find out for yourself what you want from your life, but remember; Dream big. There are no foolish goals. One of the most startling people I’ve met is an eighty year old woman, who had not a wrinkle and glowed with perfect health as she told me how at sixty she’d climbed to base camp on Everest with her daughter.
Dream big and live the dream.
BT Cassidy
