Building The Power Of Goal Setting

Goals undefined are goals, even if the success experienced is not quantified by a check mark in the done column

. The power of goal setting can change a lifes direction and set forth a series of events that are measured by achievement of milestones. As often as not, these achievements are not just measured over a lifetime but in the accomplishments of smaller short-term goals.

To live a life bereft of goals is to wander aimlessly about a forest of saplings too busy putting out fires to save the young tender trees that will one day grow into a mature and strong tree full of life and success. As a tree grows each year a ring is added, those rings denote a cycle of survival and growth. Without growth there can be no achievement.

Nurturing the young sapling, aiding in its survival, gives it strength to develop and mature. A mature goal with many rings of success behind it equals a lifetime of accomplishments. Worrying about the little fires, failing to nurture the sapling, disconnects a life from the potential realization of mature objectives.

The power of goal setting is much like the rings of a growing tree; goals must first be small, and as fulfillment of those smaller goals becomes complete, larger more ambitious goals can be built upon the smaller successes of previous years. Every person has hopes and dreams; failure to organize those desires into actions is to invalidate them. Goal setting is empowering, it is a road map by which the rings of greater successes may be laid upon the sturdy foundations of the lessor.

As the sapling grows and matures it becomes stronger; the growth rings are indicators of a victorious survival of the elements. Without those victories, further grander victories would not be possible, as the sapling matures adding rings of success, small dangers become less threatening. In nature the strong survive. The strong can give shelter to the weak, protection from the hazards of the life. Goals provide protection by giving foundation and strength to weather the storms of everyday life; calling upon experiences of previous paths to success avoids devastation, and keeps the goal in focus.

Set goals in an orderly fashion, putting no goal grander than the last ahead of its predecessor. Counting the rings of a tree, each ring is larger than the last; each goal should strive to be more challenging than the previous one. This progression of goal setting provides experience that the next goal can build on creating an environment of ever increasing successes. As each new goal becomes harder to achieve the knowledge gained from the smaller goals supports the skills needed to complete the next task. Obstacles become less daunting with each previous success.

Evaluating goals, even large ones will afford the opportunity to examine them closely for the possible dangers of failure; not knowing the potential dangers that lay ahead can destroy all possible achievements. Setting short-term goals offers the strength of victories upon which ambitious life defining goals can develop and grow.

A great goal is like a great Redwood, it did not grow to that grand stature overnight, nor will a goal develop into an empowering achievement without the time to nurture the victories of success. Both long and short-term objectives can offer many opportunities for accomplishments that can only be gained through the power of goal setting.

-Tawawn Lowe

by: Tawawn Lowe

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