A man was travelling and stopped at an intersection. He asked an elderly man, “Where does this road take me?” The elderly man asked, “Where do you want to go?” The man replied, “I don’t know.” The elderly man said, “Then take any road. What difference does it make?” How true is that? When we do not know where we are going, any road will take us there. So in life, we need to have a clear vision of what we will do and where we want to go.
Importance of Goal Setting
Goal setting is a very essential factor in your personal as well as professional life. The process of goal setting in your life helps you decide on how to live your life, where you want to be, and how you want to be in the future (Figure).
Let us consider these examples.
Is there a difference in their goal? Yes, there is a difference. Amit’s goal is a long-term goal and Rahman’s goal is a short-term goal.
Goals can be related to anything like, money, health, family, education, career, etc. Goals keep changing. We achieve old goals and then make a new set of goals to achieve.
Goals are a set of dreams with a deadline to achieve them. For example, creating a group of volunteers from the community in next three months who will take up a cleaning drive every 15 days in the locality.
Goal setting is all about finding and listing your goals and then planning on how to complete them.
Goals help you to separate what is important from what is not. It helps you to focus on the result instead of less important work. This will make you successful in your career and personal life.
