Trying to Create Goals

There are so many self help authors out there.  From what I've seen, a similar factor between them is that you need to write your goals down to achieve them. This also seems to come from those successful people that have made it big.  They knew what they wanted, they wrote it down, and they went for it.

But what if you are among the people that don't know what you want?  I think too many people are labeled as "lazy" or "not ambitious" simply because they don't know what they want.  It's easy to make blanket statements like "I want to be successful."  "I want to be rich" "I want to live in a huge house"  "I want to travel".

That's great, but you want to be successful at what?  What are you willing to do to be rich?  With the ever longed for goal of being rich, are you prepared for the fame, and lack of privacy that comes with it?  Or, if it's not a famous kind of rich, the long hours you have to put in at a high pressure job?

Some people are, they are ready and willing.  Great! go for it!

These days the "American Dream" seems to be rich and famous.  I think it used to be owning a bit of your own land and owning yourself.  Not being a "slave" to a monarchy.  Although, that is a whole can of worms I don't think I want to delve into today.

So, back the the question.  What are your goals.  Your main life goals.  I think for some of us the question isn't what are your goals, but what makes you happy?  I think this because sometimes we are looking at life thinking we need to achieve this success.  That unless we are striving for some kind of greatness, we are nothing.  That is a mindset we need to get rid of.  There are so many people who's main goal is to survive, and because they aren't trying to make a million dollars, does not make them less important than the person who has been able to make their million.

And at the same time, sometimes the whole goal setting thing is difficult if we don't know what we want to do.  Sometimes we fall into a career, and sometimes we really wanted it, and then grow out of it after the reality of what the day to day of that job entails.  So, I think, (and I am by no means a professional, and these theories are untested.)  that the first step is to list all the things that you enjoy.  EVERYTHING.  From sunsets to hobbies.  Write everything that you enjoy down.