Ten Steps To Personality Enhancement

Chapter 6 Step 6 Goals: They Make You

Chapter 6

Step 6

Goals: They Make You

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

I often come across people saying, “I’ll see how I score and how I perform and later decide what field I want to chose as my career”

“I have five options in mind and I will try each one of those and see which one is fruitful and continue the business in same”

All these are career related and very major issues in life.

There are few more regularly opted by people “I’ll see what time I want to get up in the morning”

And they’ll sit chatting on their mobiles or computers till late in the night doing nothing-useful wasting precious hours of life.

Reason: couldn’t sleep so I kept myself occupied till I was sleepy

Instead if he/she had made a goal that I’d get up at 7:00 am sharp.

I can bet on my dead body that his body and brain would have reacted in a manner that he would have had proper and sound sleep right on time.

This silly day-to-day example I am sorry was not to offend anyone; this was only to support the earlier bigger options.

Had the other two categories of people already decided what they wanted they would have acted accordingly.

They wouldn’t have been dependent on destiny

Rather they would have shaped their own destiny.

So the key word is GOAL

Goal: goal is something you decide for yourself, something you want to achieve, something that will keep you going, Goal therefore is your asset, your personal property.

Me, as a teenager like you all out there in the world around I am sure are always bothered about what others think and say.

Trust me I was bothered by the same to such an extent that I actually started doing things that I thought would get appreciation by others.

This fact sounds funny to my own ears and I am giggling while I am writing because the fact that what others [key word here being judgments] think about you bothers you a lot, so it did to me.

I would undoubtedly accept that it was the worst phase of my life; I had completed my high school and was in college, I had no goals in life and aimed only to enjoy my teen age.

Did I enjoy?

I guess I need not answer.

Later I wanted money *whispers(money to party with friends)*and therefore when I got an opportunity to tutor a girl for her MBA exams since she had very poor command in English I agreed and for me to teach her I needed to read the whole book first and therefore I had a GOAL now, goal to let the girl get good grades in the semesters she paid me for.

I worked hard for the same.

Then in the duration, one night we had power cut due to certain reasons, I had to deliver her the notes the very next day, which she had to analyze and rewrite and mail it by the evening itself.