Hi all readers,
I would like to take this chance to wish all my readers a very merry and blessed Christmas! May all your dreams and aspirations come true as we work towards them.
JUICE!
Tags: Aspirations, Christmas, Goals, Greetings, Wishes
Welcome back. I hope that the past two days have been great for you. Today we shall take a look at the 3rd Criteria of Setting Good Goals Habits.
Deadlines are much dreaded by many, including myself. So many times, i find myself renaming it to Completion Dates. Many of us like to laze around like we have all eternity to ourselves. I like to be at the beach doing nothing but that is different when it comes to having completion dates for our goals. Without a time frame, you will find it almost impossible to achieve anything. You will start many projects and have many resolutions in wanting to get things done but if there is always a “tomorrow”, you will find yourself being stagnant and not moving. Whatever great goals that you have will never be achieve. Trust me, years done the road, you will find yourself chasing after the same goals, year after year after year. If you have the same goals every year, it also means that it will have the tendency to drain your of whatever enthusiasm that you have in the beginning. Remember, you have totally no control over how many tomorrows you have. If you want to claim your destiny in being successful in achieving your goals, you need to have completion dates. Without them, how can you compare your progress against the first day that you have set that goal. Time is your gift from God, use it wisely, invest it and make use of good goals setting habits to push yourself forward. For the sake of yourself, your family and your loved ones, do not forget to have the completion dates on your goals.
See you again in two days’ time.
JUICE!
Tags: Achieve, Deadline, Goals, Good, Habit, Improve, Setting
Hi how are you? I hope you have found my previous post beneficial to you. Today, I am looking at the second criteria in our series for Goals Setting.
When setting goals, it will benefit us if we are to set at least 2 main goals, some being an easy goal and at least one challenging goal. The challenging goal is needed as it will stretch us and enable us to do better than what we thought we are capable of doing. You could have several easy goals and several challenging ones but we should limit the number of the challenging goals due at any one time to prevent yourself from being frustrated or overwhelmed. The purpose of having the easy goals is to build good habits of follow-through and reward yourself with quick gratification of achieving some of your goals. The purpose of the challenging ones forces us to stretch and grow. A good mix of the two is ideal.
The other way to look at this is to set 1 challenging goal and break it up into some minor (easy) goals, to be used as stepping stones. After you have achieve the minor (easy) goals, you can then set your eyes on the next easy goal.
Example:
To do a makeover of your room in 5 days. (Challenging Goal)
(1) Day 1: Move out all the furniture in your room, sweep, clean the floor and ceilings. (Minor or Easy Goal 1)
(2) Day 2: Apply a coat of white paint as a underlying coat of paint for your walls and ceiling. Go through your items that have been shifted outside. Throw away things that you do not require anymore. (Minor or Easy Goal 2)
(3) Day 3: Apply a coat of finishing paint (whatever color that you have chosen for your room) on your walls and ceiling. Clean up your furniture focusing on all the hidden corners to ensure that all dust and dirt are cleaned away. (Minor or Easy Goal 3)
(4) Day 4: Bring in all the furniture that you have chosen and arrange the other items into their respective places. (Minor or Easy Goal 4)
(5) Day 5: Take a good look at your room and rearrange whatever items that may be out of place. (Minor or Easy Goal 5)
In the above simple example, can you see how easy it is for you to achieve your challenging goal? Especially if the room is very messy in the first place. By having minor goals (Stepping Stones), they ensure that you are heading towards your challenging goal little by little. It will also give you immediate gratification and satisfaction as each day passed, instead of waiting for 5 days when you have achieved your main goal of a complete makeover of your room. At the same time, it pushes you towards your challenging goal, sometimes even without you knowing it.
I hope you have learnt some pointers today, and helped you in setting good goals for yourself.
Till we meet again in two days’ time.
JUICE!
Tags: Acheive, Challenging, Easy, Goal, Goal Setting, Minor, Stepping Stone
Setting goals are important to starting, maintaining and ending the journeys of our lives in the right manner. Goals are like our destinations where we would like to be at certain times of our lives. Have you ever set on any journeys with any specific destination(s)? Chances are that we either find ourselves lost or going in circles arriving at nowhere.
So what makes a good goal? When setting our goals, there are 7 Criterias that we need to follow to ensure that our goal is a good goal.
The 7 Criterias are as follows, not in order of importance:
a) Believable;
b) Challenging;
c) Have a Specific Deadline;
d) Measureable;
e) Specific;
f) Visible;
g) Written.
It is not difficult to think of an example that does not follow the above mentioned criterias. For example, the goal “Living a righteous life” may be a honorable and meaningful goal for many. But if you look at it carefully with me, you will realize that while it is believable and challenging in today’s world, it is hardly measurable. What is righteous and how much righteousness is really righteous? Placing a specific deadline will turn out to be more challenging than the goal itself.
So what makes a Goal a Good Goal?
Let us look at the above criterias on a two days’ basis.
Yes, you must believe in your goals in order to make it happen or materialized or you will not be motivated by whatever goals that you have set. Faith, the size of a mustard seed can move mountains. Without faith, nothing that has happened will happen. The Wright Brothers believe that man can fly. It was their faith in man being able to fly to propelled and drove them to work religiously to make their goals materialize on 17 December 1903. Their faith made it possible for your and I to go from one end of the world to another in a period of hours instead of years. It was their faith that impacted not only their lives but also the lives of the entire human race. What seemed impossible became possible with their faith. One word of caution though. We should not have the “wrong” type of believe. We should not have the “wrong” faith” that say, we can become famous or even rich and we try to run foul of the law. Crimes do not pay. What will pay is the honest belief, smart working habits coupled with diligence will bring us to where we aspire to be.
So take out a piece of paper, write out a goal that is believable. Focus on it, imaging it to take place and we will meet again in two days’ time to continue on the next criterias to setting a Good Goal.
Juice!
Tags: Belief, Believe, Faith, Follow, Goal, Good, Happen, Impact, Materialize, Set, Setting
Let us begin our Journeys
I have been wondering what life is all about and what does it entail. All of us came into this world as a blessing to our family and as a bundle of joy. Most of us went to preschool, then to elementary school, to college then to university, into the working world, start a family and finally to our resting place to spend eternity.
Is that all to life? Are we all created just to pass through life, suffer the agonies of growing up and finally turned to dust?
After much thinking, I do not think that that is all to life. In fact, we are all created to make an impact in the lives of those people that surround us. Indeed we are all destined to be successful and to make this world a better place for all. We are to build a legacy that will survive beyond us. However, this destiny eluded most of us as we somehow loss our birthright along our journeys in live. We loss our inheritance along the rugged road that we travelled as we journey in life.
Granted that not all of us came into this planet with the same blessings. Some of us are borne into rich families, others not so rich and yet there are some that came into broken families or are borne into war zones. But are not all of us borne naked without any knowledge whatsoever? Yet there are few that managed to leave behind a legacy. Yet there are few who ultimately became successful. Many dropped out of this desperate race to grow old graciously. Many simply gave up and threw in the towel.
Here we will try to explore life and its journeys. Here we will try to share our experiences and hope that many will benefit from this sharing.
Till we meet at the end of journeys and congratulate each other for the well run race!
Enjoy your Journeys To Freedom.
JUICE!