What are Personal Goals? Goals for the short term and or long-term. Plans for work, family life, or just changing your lifestyle. Goals stimulate your best interest in doing or give you the enthusiasm for doing something you need to help you complete your desired result. Know that whatever it is, it’s already yours. There is no “soon” about this! What you want, you can have this right now. All you do is make that decision to start.

Like my aunt used to say, “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can do it right.”
[Note: She never said she was the first to say it.]

First. You start a journey away from the comfortable and known and toward the new and unknown. With many questions. How will I make it so helpless and fresh in the business? How am I going to understand what is best for me? How am I going to deal with the wrong people? You will learn that everyone who gives you a hard time is not necessarily your enemy. Everyone that gets you out of your trouble is not necessarily your friend. You learn that you have reached a goal if you are satisfied with where you are.

Second. You step up to leadership and service in what you do. You measure those items and list what you want and need to help you do your work better. Better means more projects which means more money in your bank accounts, higher profits, tremendous respect and influence in your professional arena, and more opportunities to thank those who helped you get there.

Third. You have to fight for it. Let’s remember, it’s a journey, as things can happen unexpectedly, and you will live different life experiences as you travel on. You say “NO” to certain things as you study daily occurrences. In life, rough times and moments of stress may come. Look for advice and solutions to help you get through all your struggles. Goals may take a long time but can also happen in weeks or even a day.

Fourth. Follow in patient trust and wholehearted obedience. Serve as a guide to your employees, partners, and team members. You help them by suggesting ways in which they can further develop. Being in charge is fulfilling and exciting, and looking back, if you think about this, you will find that we learned a lot from those around us. Stop and think about what is important to you and give back. Define, measure, and deliver the necessary task, be it ideas, duties, or responsibilities at work and home.

Like my aunt used to say, “Learn to become genuinely interested in other people.”

Fifth. Believe and act upon the truth to keep it. We did the hard work to meet our goals, and the truth is, we were never alone. And it was because of many others that we are where we are. We worked to know our numbers, which took care of the “guess” work. We learned when to say “NO,” which helped us through some rough times. We stopped the music and paid attention to the most important, the people around us. We learned we find our opportunity in the people we serve and with those who help us.

Like my aunt used to say, “Look for the opportunity; that’s the only place where there is real security.”