How To Define Your Life Goals

January 8th, 2010

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Defining your life goals at an early stage is important if you wish to achieve anything substantial in your life. Setting out your goals gives you a desire and purpose, a road to tread, and can be applied to any area of life.

Here are a few examples…

Your Education
Your Career
Sports Achievements
Personal Development
Financial Development
Weight Loss

…all you need to do is to decide what area in your life to target, then to define your goals and to make a plan to achieve them.

To help you define your goals think on your beliefs. Your destiny is a direct result of your actions which are derived from your beliefs.

This is how your destiny is formed according to Mahatma Gandhi…

Destiny Circle

Beliefs lead to values
Values lead to thoughts
Your Thoughts determine your words
Words lead to actions
Actions form habits
Habits enhance your beliefs

You ARE what you think and do, so your goals should reflect who you are now, and where you want to go in the future.

The idea is to flourish and grow into your future self via goal setting, assessment and achievement.

Aristotle originated the concept of eudaimonia, that is ‘human flourishing’, which is composed of two elements…

Virtue
Health, wealth and beauty

Human flourishing could not be achieved according to Aristotle, unless the person has…

…”the capability to consider the mode of action in order to deliver change, especially to enhance the quality of life.”

…a concept which he named phronesis.

To help you in considering your mode of action, I have devised the ‘Goal Setting Plan’ shown below with a simple example.

Goal Setting Example

You should define major goals on one page, then break them down into minor goals on further pages. When your destiny is mapped out in front of you, you can take great pleasure in closing out your goals, the sense of achievement will be palpable!