Today I want to talk about the importance of setting goals, which is something, unless you were born last week, you have probably heard or been trained or coached on some aspect of goal setting at least a million times, especially if you are a businessperson or just someone who has been around for awhile.
I think everybody has their own different spin and take on goals and it's something that we all need to be refreshed and reminded on because it can be a bit of a tedious task for a lot of people. There are some people who it is very natural for to set goals.
I know for me, I won't say that it is.  I think that in time I've made it to become natural for myself because I understand the importance of it, but even that has been a process.               What I would like to do, I really only have one goal in this short conversation with you and that is to transform the way that you look at goals away from it being a task that you have to go and get done and really look at it more so in the context of you going and taking control of your own future.
You see, a lot of people have dreams and they wish for things and desire to have a certain reality and everyone feels that they deserve more than what most people probably have going for them right now or currently in their lives, but the thing about this is no one is just going to come give you a great life on a platter.
If you want that life you'll have to earn the right to be there.  One of the ways that you drive the activities to earn your way, you use goals as a way of you taking control of your own destiny as opposed to allowing it.               This is the thing, if you're not setting goals for yourself, there are goals being set for you somewhere.  Maybe there's a goal down at the welfare office of a certain number of people that have taken advantage of that.
Maybe there's a goal at a company that are going to cut expenses this year and that may include cutting your salary or cutting your job or cutting your stock options.  So, there's always being goals made on behalf of your life somewhere by someone.
When you're writing your own goals you're setting and taking charge of that destiny, making sure that you're driving activities for yourself that are going to be in your best interests as opposed to in the best interest of someone else or worse case scenario, goals that someone has for you that actually work against your best interest.
So, you want to be not just a goal setter but a serial goal setter where you are in the habit of setting goals, working hard to achieve those goals and then setting a new set of goals to get to the next level. So, I really hope that at least one thing that I've said has had some kind of impact in a way that you look at goals now.
I hope that you will begin to see them as a part of your responsibility to yourself if you really want to take control of your own future as opposed to allowing for someone else to plan that future out for you because once again, if you're not writing down goals and acting on them and following up for yourself, you best believe that someone else out there is setting goals for you.