Dream+Deadline= Goal

One important question that we need to answer on a daily basis is- What for am I living today? What is one idea, one goal that will occupy the major share of next 24 hours of my life? Many of us complain about life being monotonous & meaningless. One big flaw in this kind of thinking is that we give the command of our life to some known or unknown person or situation. If we rephrase the same statement & say that I couldn't add any meaning to my life, you take the ball in your court &, therefore, are ready to play.

If you have the same issue with your life, you need to first understand why you descended on earth & what the real purpose of your life is. According to Stephen Covey, we have only three purposes- To love, to live & to leave a legacy. (He also added laugh; but that is obvious because if you are not laughing, you are not living.) We will concentrate on the last purpose- to leave a legacy.

While first two purposes have a lot to do with your being, the last one is about your doing. Your doing of today will decide your being of tomorrow. Your doing is nothing but achieving important milestones in your professional & personal life. You achieve these milestones, not once, but twice in your life- first in your mind & then in the physical world. Everything that you see in your life today is the outcome of that you had already envisioned. You made certain choices in your life in past & these became the reasons that you find yourself where you are today. These choices are nothing but your dreams. You dreamed about getting a degree, a plush job, a happy life, a life partner and many other things & you achieved most of these. But, there are certain other things that you missed to achieve. What were the reasons of your failures in those fields? There can be many reasons of missing out on few things that you badly needed.

Three most important reasons for missing your goals might be- 

1) You did not write those dreams on a piece of paper. Many of us want to be this & achieve that but these wishes remain unknown to our subconscious mind until we put it on a piece of paper. Write your goals on a paper & view it every day. Otherwise, these will only remain few of the wishes that you had in your life but never achieved.

"If you have a goal, write it down.  If you don't write it, you don't have a goal. You have a wish." - Steve Maraboli

2) You did not add deadlines to your goals. Without deadlines, goals die a slow death. If you don't write deadline, you give it an eternity to be achieved & it takes exactly that- an eternity.

"I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines; nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation." - Harry Shearer

3) You did not take necessary & equivalent action. If goals are the fuel of our doing, action is the force that propels our life. Any goal or decision is recognized by the action that follows it. No action means no goal; small action means small goal & a huge action means a big goal.

"The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts-it gives you what you demand with your actions." - Steve Maraboli.

If you do the above three things, you are bound to achieve the dreams of your life, doesn't matter how wild they might seem in the beginning!

But remember, our goals are not important because we get something by achieving those; they are important because we be something by achieving those.