Why Are Goals Important?

On the best sunny day, the most powerful magnifying glass will not light paper if you keep moving the glass. But if you focus and hold it, the paper will light up. That is the power of concentration.
A man was traveling and stopped at an intersection. He asked an elderly man, “Where does this road take me?” The elderly person asked, “Where do you want to go?” The man replied, “I don’t know.” The elderly person said, “Then take any road. What difference does it make?”
How true. When we don’t know where we are going, any road will take us there.
Suppose you have all the football eleven players, enthusiastically ready to play the game, all charged up, and then someone took the goal post away. What would happen to the game? There is nothing left. How do you keep score? How do you know you have arrived?

Why Are Goals Important?

Getting what you want doesn’t always come easy. More often than not, you’ve got to work hard to achieve the results you desire. Getting out of debt and securing your financial future is no exception. This requires dedication, perseverance, and the know-how to manage your money to the best of your ability.
Still, there’s another very helpful but often overlooked way to reach your aspirations. It’s a process called goal-setting, and for people who achieve what they set out for, it’s the one thing most of them have in common. They most likely charted out a long-term plan; mapped out the times, tasks and deadlines along the way; and stuck firmly to their plan in order to achieve their goals. “People never plan to fail; they just fail to plan” (or set goals).

What Are Goals, and How Are They Different from Pipe Dreams?

Consider the scenarios between these two families: the Johnsons and the Smiths.

The Johnsons

• Hope to get out of debt
• Want to purchase a house
• Wish to eventually help their child with colleg expenses

The Smiths

• Will be out of debt y January 2014, based on monthly payments of $600
• Will buy a house by March 2015 with a $10,000 downpayment
• Will have $14,000 in savings, bonds and stocks for their child’s education, by the time he turns 18

Enthusiasm without direction is like wildfire and leads to frustration. Goals give a sense of direction. Would you sit in a train or a plane without knowing where it was going? The obvious answer is no. Then why do people go through life without having any goals?
Do you find yourself missing the one thing in life that would help you achieve a desired goal, realize a long held dream, or push you up the ladder to success?

Not Giving Up!

I can remember a period in my life when I was unemployed and money was running short. I needed a job very badly and it seemed as if no one was hiring.A very good friend of mine approached me one day with an offer. “I’m going to have to let this job go and I was wondering if you would like to take it over?”"That would be great,” I replied.I went to speak with the manager and he said he could use me, but never gave me a start date. Really needing the job, I made it a point to go and check in with him every day. I knew he would eventually get tired of me and give me a starting period. Finally one day he said, “You can start Monday morning.”

Come Monday morning, I showed up for work extra early. I was ready to do my best. When I went inside I was informed that I would be buffing the floors. My friend was there to show me how to operate the buffer.

“It’s real easy,” he said, running the machine very smoothly.

He handed it over to me and said, “Here, you give it a try.”

I grabbed the handles with a “no problem” attitude and gave it some gas. To my surprise, the buffer whipped around in a big circle, running over my friend’s brand new pair of boots, and sending him jumping up on a check-out counter.

Several times, I tried to run it again and failed. I really had to fight that thing to make it go.

“What am I going to do?” I thought to myself. “I finally found a job and I can’t do it. Am I going to have to tell them I have to quit?”

Not Giving Up!

After several rough days of buffing, I finally made up my mind that I was going to do this. For about a week, I struggled with the buffer, putting all my weight and strength into it. Eventually, I learned the trick was not to struggle with it at all, just go with the flow of it, and by the second week, I was showing off and running it with one hand.

A few months later, I thought back and wondered what would have happened if I had given up that first week. I certainly would not have had the new found confidence or a paycheck.

Sometime after that experience, I started a new job that required the use of a buffer. I even had to train others to use it, and I always got a kick out of seeing them run it for the first time. I knew, though, if they stuck with it, they would do just fine; they just needed a little encouragement and a lot of practice.

Michael Jordan said, “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Not Giving Up!

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Meaning less Goals.

A farmer had a dog who used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come around. As soon as one came he would run down the road, barking and trying to overtake it.

One day a neighbor asked the farmer “Do you think your dog is ever going to catch a car?”
The farmer replied, “That is not what bothers me. What bothers me is what he would do if he ever caught one.
” Many people in life behave like that dog who is pursuing meaning less goals, indulging in useless activities, rather than pursuing constructive goals”. ..
Meaning less Goals….
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The Burning Desire

A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning.
They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water.
The boy struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy started turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air.
Socrates asked, ‘What did you want the most when you were there? “The boy replied”Air.

Doing Small Things In A Great Way!

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors, who said he had no talent.
One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons.
Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church.
After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of Mickey Mouse.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as aninnovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world’s most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice.
Successful people don’t do great things, they only do small things in a great way.