Are You Losing Out By Not Setting Goals?

Suppose one day, you engage a designer to help spruce up the interiors of your dull looking home, one you had spent your life savings on. You wanted a Zen look, but finally decided on a contemporary feel. Nodding his head profusely in acknowledgment of your requirements, the designer assured “Ok, I’ve got a rough idea how your interiors should be designed. I don’t need a plan.”

How would you feel? Would you engage this designer?

I hope not. But the truth is, a lot of us behave exactly like what that designer was doing, leading our lives without a plan of where we want to be or go in the future. In other words, not setting goals. When I asked a close friend of what she wanted to do after completing her Masters a few days ago, you know what she said? “I don’t know. I’ll see what comes along then.”

I was flabbergasted. We don’t mind spending days or even weeks planning our vacations that may occur once or twice a year but do not even bother to draft out a life master plan that could last us for a … lifetime? Remember, whatever that comes along is not a matter of chance. It’s a matter of choice. And it takes you to make that choice. The choice to plan NOW.

“Ok, Ok, you’ve convinced me. So what do I need to do to plan my life?” Read more