I have been busy.  Not that you care a lot because you’ve been busy as well.

That’s the nature of our lives these days.  We are all busy doing things.

It’s also the nature Human Beings, which I’m assuming you are, that we get wrapped up in the busyingness of our day to day lives but don’t achieve what we think we might like to achieve.

This is because we get focussed on the little things like the things happening at work, what are our friends up to on Facebook, where will we eat tonight, how is our favourite sporting team doing etc.

What we do is fill our available time with things.  We can fill this time with anything we choose and we do.

That’s the key, YOU CHOOSE what to fill your time with.

Me, I’ve been coasting for the last few weeks.  Since the last post actually.  I’ve had a weeks holiday, I’ve changed job and it is now time to set some goals for this year and start working towards them.

What about you?  What are you going to do this year?  What did you want to do last year but haven’t done yet?  Do you still want to do that or have your goals changed?

As our lives change so do our goals.  What is suitable for a 20 year old may not be suitable for a 40 year old and that’s OK.  My goals are not your goals, they may have the same end result but the path may be very different and the reasons will be different.

I was going to tell you how to set a goal but really that’s not really the issue.  You know what you want to do and, if you refuse to accept limitations, the only thing you really need to think about is when you want to have achieved this goal.

That’s part of the process, you have to set a time for achievement.  Once you have that time frame you can break the goal down to smaller pieces and set a date for those smaller chunks.  This is really all there is to it.

You decide on the goal, you set a timeframe, you break the goal down to smaller chunks which each have their own timeframe and then you just stay on track to hit those targets.

What happens if you don’t hit the goal on the due date?  No you aren’t a failure.  You might have been a bit enthusiastic in setting the date or there were other issues.  Just reset the time frame, don’t change the goal.

I read some time ago that you set your goals in concrete and your plans in sand.

If you need some other help try this site or search Google for other sites, there are more.  Goals.