Saumya Bansal
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible”
In today’s competitive world where everyone is just running around, it is extremely important to be aware of what is it that you want to strive for and achieve in life. Here comes the goal-setting exercise into the picture which enables you to break down the larger picture into smaller pieces enabling you to take one step at a time. Let us have a look at some of the ways in which this exercise can turn out to be fruitful for our future.
#1. Keep Moving you Forward
Unless you think of getting yourself out of your current scenario, you will not be able to. So, when you set a goal for yourself, you basically determine where is it that you see yourself and helps you to take baby steps towards achieving that goal.
#2. Motivates You
Your ultimate goal in life should be such that it keeps you going. When you have a certain finish line that you wish to achieve in life, you are motivated to achieve it on a daily basis. However, if that is not the case, you don’t really know where is it that you want to go and what is it that you want to achieve thus turning your life into a whole lot of confusion.
#3. Someone Believes in You
When we look at something complex or difficult the first time, we think to ourselves – this cannot be achieved. Your goals, on the other hand, make you believe that you can achieve something on your own by breaking down your bigger picture into smaller ones. When you set a goal for yourself, you know what you want to achieve and in how much time. This makes it possible for you to believe the fact that your goal is achievable if you only exercise a little faith in yourself and complete your action points on time.
#4. They Hold You Accountable
If we don’t have a measure against which we compare ourselves, what are we even doing for ourselves? By making a solid goal in life, as time passes, we can always go back to evaluate where we went wrong and how to correct it going forth. Goals make it a point that we are on the right track and that there is no deviation.
#5. Goals Help you Reflect on Yourself
Another very important part that this ‘goal-setting’ exercise plays in our life is that it helps us realize our aim in life. At times, in this busy world, with people joining the herd most of the times, it becomes really difficult to figure out what is it that we want to do in life. This is where goals come into the picture and as we decide on a goal in life, it actually makes us realize this is what we wanted to do along all this while.
#6. Goals Make us Appreciative
Once you have a goal in life, you need to work towards it, really hard. Therefore, as and when you get the time off, you really want to make yourself happy and relax in that time frame. Goals make you realize how much the little things in life such as spending time with your family, enjoying your vacation, and sleeping make a huge difference in keeping us motivated and going.
#7. Goals Make you Forget the Meaning of Procrastination
We human beings have always had a really bad habit of putting things off until the next day. Well, when you have a certain goal in mind, you cannot afford to do that. Goals ensure that your work point in time and complete all that you have to in the present without having to rely on the future to achieve it.
Given the benefits of setting a goal, it is also very important for you to take it seriously and follow it religiously if you want to benefit from it. What are you waiting for? Take a notepad out already!