Nov 13
Three Important Questions – Understanding Your Life Goals
Have you set life goals for yourself in an attempt to make life meaningful? If you’re someone with a keen ambition to succeed in life you’d probably have read up on achieving your life goals the SMART way, or rather, making them Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound.
If you ask anyone who has had experience with succeeding in achieving their goals, they would tell you that the above five are the most important elements in goal-setting. They can provide a very comprehensive understanding of your own life goals, and help you understand if they’re realistic enough for you to achieve given the capabilities and resources you have on hand.
Not all goals are one-size-fits-all. Our life goals should be tailor-made to our own capabilities and personalities. In order for you to fully understand your life goals, you need to ask yourself these three important questions:
1. Do the goals challenge you?
The goals need to be challenging to you in order for you to develop as an individual. If the goals do not challenge you at all then it would have been a pointless goal to go after. The goals should make you step out of your comfort zone, they should make you take actions that you may not be comfortable with in the first place. If you are not challenged by the goal, should you not be attaining it already? For any goal worth setting it has to challenge you, it has to instill change in you, in some form or other. By the end of your journey you should eventually be a better person because of it.
2. Are the goals inspiring somehow?
As well as challenging you, the goals should inspire you in some way. If you’ve done your research well you would have come across several success stories that may inspire you. The one thing that successful people have in common is that they were once inspired by their life goals, be it inspired to sacrifice their worldly possessions or time, or even simply inspired to work their hardest until they’ve achieved what they’ve always aspired for. Your life goals should make you excited; they should pump you up and make life worth living as you pursue them. What a life goal should never do is to depress you because you haven’t been able to attain it, even though you’ve tried numerous times. If your life goals tend to depress you rather than inspire you, then perhaps it may be time to re-evaluate your life goals and choose something that is inspirational and challenging, yet realistically attainable.
3. Is there anyone who can help?
There’s no sugarcoating it. People are going to critique you on your goals. They will tell you that you can’t do it, that you’re not cut out for it, that you’ll never attain your goals. Sure, some may do it with the best intentions because they don’t want to see you get hurt when you stumble in your journey, but here’s the thing you should do: Don’t listen to them! Remember, your stamina for your journey is going to be composed of mostly self-motivation, so if you’re going to allow outside influence to affect your motivation, you’ll lack that extra drive to push onward for that final lap. Sometimes people fail to achieve their goals because they allow others to plant the seeds of doubt in them. Remove yourself from the doubters, and find people who have attained a similar goal as the one you’re pursuing. Get the advice you need from them, let their success inspire your own. They’ve been there, done that, so they understand the trials and tribulations that you may be going through.
There you have it, three important questions that you need to ask yourself before you can understand and set your goals in life. Once you fully understand these questions, you will be well on your way to attaining your life goals.
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