wowoow!!! January is coming to an end now! Do you realise that if we do not try to make use of every single second now, 2007 is going to be here sooner than we think, and then when we look back in 2006, we would set the same goals again as what we are trying to do now for the whole new 2006! :)
To me goal setting is a very 'logical' process; you have to do this; you have to do that. It is not surprising that sometimes we cannot achieve the goals that we set because those goals are not really what we want to achieve in life. They are not connected to our life purpose!
Whenver I set goals, the first question that I ask myself is whether those goals are really connected to my life purpose. I want to make goal setting more on the emotional level rather than the logical level.
However, I did not use to do that. When times passed by, I learnt how to set goals and achieve them.
As far as goal setting is concerned, I had been through three stages...
In the far far away memory, I used to be somebody who wondered around the earth not knowing what I wanted to do. I did whatever I saw fit. When people drank I drank. When people smoked I smoked. When people slept I slept! They didn't even need to ask me! I lived an aimless life. A life that was totally wasted.
Then, I started to do what others told me to do. I always agreed with what others thought was good for me. At least that was better than living without any purpose right? You may think. Maybe, but I was not happy though. I did not have a sense of fulfilment. I completed what was required of me to a high standard. I lived in the lives of others. What I cared the most was about what the society would think about me; what my freinds and family would think about me. As time went by, I lost my identity. The identity that I was given when I was born to be. I forgot what I was here for.
Then, I came to realise that I could no longer live the way I lived. I did not want others' mentality to be my reality. Thus, now, I take others mentality merely as opinion and advice.
Those advice maybe good for me or maybe not. I am so focused that I shut out all the noises that come in between me and my dream. I try to live each day to the fullest, as if tommorrow is going to be my last. Yes it may be uncomfortable in the beginning, because suddenly I feel that I have to be always on the guard, just in case I fall in the trap of living for others again.
Everything becomes so goal orientated. However, when I get used to it, and I look back the day at the end of each day, I feel a sense of fulfilment. I have achieved something. All these will lead to the final destination of what I was born for.
I truly appreciate that each of us is unique in our own way. We have the life journey to walk. All these journeys are different, and you are the only judge to know which journey you should walk on.
Keep walking!
