Goal Setting Ideas

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." - - Jean-Paul Sartre

When you decide to make changes in your life it is imperative that you make a careful evaluation of your current situation.  Your current situation is your baseline and you need a realistic evaluation of where you stand now to plan actions to take yourself to new levels of income, responsibility, knowledge, luxury, or leisure.  You have a vision of where you want to take your life or your business.  The gap between your vision and your current reality - your baseline is where you set your interim goals.   If you lack sufficient knowledge in your discipline, say cost accounting, then you can sign up for a college course.

To create more income from your investments, your job, or your small business you need to examine the current situation and see where there are possibilities to increase your margins or to deliver more service for more money.   Study your ratios: efficiency, liquidity, profitability and solvency to see where you can improve your business.  Likewise,  with any area of your life; are engaged in meaningful work , satisfied with your lifestyle and your health and happy living in your hometown?  Find ways to measure your current level of satisfaction with your lives, i.e., what are your values and are you meeting your needs in this area?

The rational inventory of your current situation is your tarting point on the way to further achievements:

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
- Robert Louis Stevenson



"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
-- Chinese proverb

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
- Confucius




Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
- Zig Ziglar




"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
-- Thomas Edison




"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson




"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh




"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." Helen Hayes

"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation."  - Jack Kinder