Why Set Goals..!

Imagine coming to the end of your life, looking back and feeling totally satisfied at achieving everything you ever wanted in life… achieving and living all your dreams.

In life, we all have dreams of a better life… of a life where things are exactly how we want them.

Whether it’s our finances, our family, our health, our contribution to society, or all of the above… we all have a dream of how our life would look like if it were perfect in every respect.

The difference between the people who do eventually get to live the life of their dreams and those who will only ever yearn for their dream is goal setting.

We all have goals, whether we consciously set them or not. Whether it is to pay the bills at the end of the week, to buy a new house , to increase profits in your business , to lose those extra few pounds or to create the life of your dreams… everybody has goals.

The difference between living a fulfilling life and just living an average life is the quality of the goals you set for yourself. Yet why do only 5% of adults ever set goals?

Did you know that studies have found that 95% of adults will never write a goal in their life? Which means only 5% of adults will only ever achieve something on purpose in their life!

Another interesting statistic is the distribution of wealth throughout the population. Recent studies have found that 90% of all the wealth in our society is controlled by just 10% of the population. An example of this is found in the share market… where 90% of all the traded shares are controlled by just 10% of the investors.

Is there a correlation between the fact that only 5% of adults ever write goals, and 10% of adults control 90% of the wealth?
In my opinion… there is!

Goal Areas

We all have at least 5 major areas in our life that if we set clear, written goals for would dramatically improve the quality of our life in each area. Those areas are: finances, career, health, family, relationships.

By setting goals in each area of our life we give ourselves a target, something to aim for, something that if we achieved would have a dramatic positive impact in our life.

Goals give us something to measure our progress against, to see if what we are doing is moving us closer or further from our ultimate target. If our actions are moving us closer to our target then we keep doing what were doing. If our actions are moving us further from our target, then we must change what we are doing so that we can move closer to our target.

But this also opens up the possibility of failure… and that is one of the biggest obstacles that you must overcome to have a truly fulfilling life. Most people never set goals because of the fear of failure, and the fear of the unknown.

The fear of failure is the biggest obstacle that we all must overcome in every part of our life…

And the fear of the unknown is the fear of moving outside of our comfort zone and into a world that we do not know.


The exciting part is…

Unless you are currently living the life of your dreams, your dreams lay outside the realm of your current comfort zone, in the unknown…

So take the first step today in creating the life of your dreams and start setting goals today and make sure they move you out of your comfort zone to a place where you grow in every area of your life.