Your goals can be achieved if aligned with personal values
What magnetic north is to the compass, a goal is to us? The goals will vary from one individual to another, but to explain the point let me use the following example. John might come up with an example of goals listed below:
1. make a million by 31st of 2008
2. buy a home worthy $400,000
3. start a home business
4. marry my fiancée by January(Jane)
The above is an example of the goals john came up with, the he can sit down and evaluate them from the most important to the least. He will then pour energy into realizing the goal. Values will come to help us a guide, because he will always ask himself whether they are in alignment with his personal values in life and then consult them for guidance if the goal is in conflict with the values drop it and move to the next, but a warning don’t allow the values to hinder you from achieving a goal that would have changed your life for better.
Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live. Some sets of values will fail to produce the results you want .You may want to change your values when you understand and accept where they are taking you, and you realize that what you appear to value right now will not enable you to enjoy the "best" possible life for you Your "best" life is your vision of all the destinations you wish to reach - the greatest ultimate destiny you can possibly imagine for yourself. But your values are just a measure of the current direction you're headed right now. And in most cases these two things are incongruent, meaning that your current values are not aligned with the course of your best life. You can change them by listing the values and goals of your life.
Remember that your current values are your truth currently and can continue be improved along the way. We have to always align them with universal principles which we were given: love, power and sound mind by God himself.
In 1972, life magazine published a story about the amazing adventures of John Goddard. When he was fifteen year, john’s grandmother said “if only I had done that when I was young….” Determined not to make that statement at the end of his life, john wrote about 127 goals for his life. He named ten rivers he wanted to explore and seventeen mountains he wanted to climb. He set goals t become an eagle scout, a world traveler, and a pilot. Alas on his list was: ride a horse in the Rose Bowl parade, dive in a submarine, retrace the travels of Marco polo, read the Bible cover to cover and read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He also planned to read the entire works of Shakespeare, Plato, dickens, Socrates, Aristotle and several other classic authors. He desired to learn play the flute and violin, marry, have chicken (he had five), pursue a career in medicine and serve as a missionary for his church.
Sounds impossible? At the age of forty-seven, john Goddard had accomplished 103 of his 127 goals. The reason why many fail to overcome the initial to overcome the inertia is the absence of some specific goals aligned with personal values
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posted by HESBON at
11:34 PM
What magnetic north is to the compass, a goal is to us? The goals will vary from one individual to another, but to explain the point let me use the following example. John might come up with an example of goals listed below:
1. make a million by 31st of 2008
2. buy a home worthy $400,000
3. start a home business
4. marry my fiancée by January(Jane)
The above is an example of the goals john came up with, the he can sit down and evaluate them from the most important to the least. He will then pour energy into realizing the goal. Values will come to help us a guide, because he will always ask himself whether they are in alignment with his personal values in life and then consult them for guidance if the goal is in conflict with the values drop it and move to the next, but a warning don’t allow the values to hinder you from achieving a goal that would have changed your life for better.
Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live. Some sets of values will fail to produce the results you want .You may want to change your values when you understand and accept where they are taking you, and you realize that what you appear to value right now will not enable you to enjoy the "best" possible life for you Your "best" life is your vision of all the destinations you wish to reach - the greatest ultimate destiny you can possibly imagine for yourself. But your values are just a measure of the current direction you're headed right now. And in most cases these two things are incongruent, meaning that your current values are not aligned with the course of your best life. You can change them by listing the values and goals of your life.
Remember that your current values are your truth currently and can continue be improved along the way. We have to always align them with universal principles which we were given: love, power and sound mind by God himself.
In 1972, life magazine published a story about the amazing adventures of John Goddard. When he was fifteen year, john’s grandmother said “if only I had done that when I was young….” Determined not to make that statement at the end of his life, john wrote about 127 goals for his life. He named ten rivers he wanted to explore and seventeen mountains he wanted to climb. He set goals t become an eagle scout, a world traveler, and a pilot. Alas on his list was: ride a horse in the Rose Bowl parade, dive in a submarine, retrace the travels of Marco polo, read the Bible cover to cover and read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He also planned to read the entire works of Shakespeare, Plato, dickens, Socrates, Aristotle and several other classic authors. He desired to learn play the flute and violin, marry, have chicken (he had five), pursue a career in medicine and serve as a missionary for his church.
Sounds impossible? At the age of forty-seven, john Goddard had accomplished 103 of his 127 goals. The reason why many fail to overcome the initial to overcome the inertia is the absence of some specific goals aligned with personal values
.
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