Goals. Searching? Found? Decide? Ready! Set!

One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree."Which road do I take?" She asked.
"Where do you want to go?" was his response.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the Cheshire cat,
"it doesn't matter."

I have 2 goals for 2009. Firstly, to graduate. Secondly, to earn a yearly income of $50,000. But until this year, I realised that I have never set any personal goals. Well I've made some achievements along the way, but those achievements were made because of someone else's goal and they needed the extra muscle and brain power to manage the process. I don't count those achievements as having a goal.

When was the last goal that you have set for yourself? It's okay if you didn't achieve it, it's more important that you know what you want to work towards to. If you don't achieve 100% of the goal, at least 70-80% of it isn't too bad either.

So why not set a goal now? Seat down with the person you can get comfy with, a parent, a partner, a spouse, someone you can communicate with, without pride and ego. Share your goals and let them reciprocate. You'll be surprised. I was surprised when my dad didn't know that my mom wanted a landed property all this time until I shared my goals with them. It was funny.

Well how to start? Quantify the goal, put a number on it, or an item. income of $3000/mth or 1x1st class honours degree certificate, 1x2nd upper honours degree certificate, etc.

I hope that you understand that a goal is something that you can picture in your head, or download the picture from the internet. It's called Vision. Where do you see yourself in the future? Thank you for reading. =)