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Have you thought about your life goals? Life goals are the things you’d like to work on and achieve in order to be satisfied with your future and who you become. These could be anything from better relationships and starting a business, to traveling the world, to improving your health and finance. Some are specific, others are more vague. However, without at least one such goal in mind, you won’t see much progress in the right direction.
Luckily for you, this article is all about how to set life goals!
How The Goals You Set Will Affect Your Future
If you’re not sure what life goals you should set, are distracted by things going on in your life, or even just confused by the many paths you can follow, fret no longer! Below, you’ll see a list of great ideas on how to set life goals.
Don’t put off living a better life any longer! Take action today and change it. Begin designing powerful goals to set. Then, make your life the way you want it by giving your goals all of your attention until they are accomplished.
You do need goals in order to stay focused long enough. It will have a detailed plan, telling you what to do each day in order to move ahead.
Think about it for long enough, and you’ll realize that all successful people set their goals like that — they don’t just guess what might work and invest years of their life to see if it will be a success. . . Instead, they figure out what they want, create their vision, set life goals, break them down into smaller ones, and make a step-by-step plan for each one. Then, they always wake up with that in mind and live their days according to this plan.
Your goals can help you take things to the next level, in any area of life. They’re proven to make you happier — your whole existence becomes way more meaningful.
Below is a list of awesome life goals to set so that you can begin to significantly improve your chances of success:
Examples of Life Goals
1. Find what you love doing.
Most people work a job they don’t like. They invest all their energy (in the most productive stages of their life) into doing the same thing 5 days a week, and feeling like they haven’t really done anything better with their time. . . This is one of the biggest regrets of those who never pursued ‘something more.’
At the end of your life, you may look back and notice many things you secretly wanted to do, but never did. You may then realize that you never asked for what you desired, never enjoyed a day at work, and never fully did your best.
That’s a pretty sad way to end this exciting journey we’re here for. Luckily, it’s never too late to find your true calling and turn it into something more.
If you currently have a hobby that you are incredibly passionate about, then you have already found it. Invest time in this hobby as often as possible; master it and start sharing your experience and insights with the world. You can write a blog about it, makes videos to show people how to do the same, or even start a whole business around it.
You won’t be doing it for the money, you’ll be doing it because it’s what you love and can do forever without getting bored.
If you still haven’t found a passion, though, the first of your life goals should be finding one. Look carefully everywhere around you. Go back to your childhood. Be honest about what you enjoy and what you don’t. Your calling is somewhere close, you were just distracted by all the noise around it.
2. Start taking care of yourself.
Most people never think about self-care. Even if they do have some healthy habits and are purpose-oriented, they neglect their mental and spiritual health. Physical health means nothing without these two.
So let this be one of the personal goals you set: to finally make more time for yourself, to take it easy. To stop judging, blaming, lying to, or expecting too much from yourself.
Start saying ‘no’ when you don’t want to do something, and say ‘yes’ to the desires deep within that you’ve been hiding for so long.
Self-care is a way of life. It can begin by writing a journal and experiencing all the health benefits it brings, or meditating in the evening to empty your mind before bed. It can be daily walks in the park to breathe some fresh air and generate ideas for the next steps you should take in life, or removing some toxic people from your life that make you feel bad about yourself.
Forgive yourself, it’s both a spiritual and liberating practice. Let go of the mistakes from the past and know that they don’t shape your future.
All this will make you stronger and you’ll take action to do better in life.
3. Contribute beyond yourself.
Another one of the examples of life goals worth setting is about giving, because it’s true that the more you give, the more you get in return.
The sad truth is, most of us live pretty egoistically: we make ourselves feel good and do what makes our life comfortable, but that also means putting the happiness of those we love aside, and never considering helping those around us in any way we can.
Giving doesn’t need to mean donating money or even joining an organization. It’s about leaving behind your own wants and needs, every now and then, to see if you can be of help to others. Also, it’s proven to make us way more satisfied with our lives, rather than when we’re just focusing on ourselves.
Here are some examples of things you can begin doing:
- When socializing, listen more and respond as genuinely as possible
- Give advice when necessary, encourage others to try again after failure, be their biggest supporter, and remind them of the potential within
- Love without expecting to receive the same in return
- Share what you have when you can
- Donate things that you aren’t really using
- Be kind to anyone you meet
- Seek opportunities to do good things to others, whether it’s helping an old woman cross the street, giving a dollar to a homeless person, not judging when somebody is sharing their opinion, etc.
4. Enjoying life more.
Out of all of the ideal goals to set, this is perhaps the most important one.
As general as it may sound, you can personalize this idea, and start enjoying your life more by defining for yourself what that means. If done right, you may realize you want a great family life and anything else is much less important. So, if you dedicate yourself to being a great partner and parent, you’ll be waking up feeling blessed every single day.
However, perhaps you have career-related goals. If this is the case, you can challenge yourself by taking up more responsibility at work, working extra hours, networking, taking an exciting opportunity, mastering your craft, building new skills that contribute to your performance, aiming at the next promotion, and so on.
Whatever it is, it must be one of your life goals to be happier, regardless of what that means to you.
5. Leaving your comfort zone.
Life becomes pretty boring and lacks fulfillment if you stay in one place, both physically and mentally.
Traveling is one way to get out of the rut and explore more of what’s out there. By traveling, you put yourself in a new environment and see how you react. You learn to become adaptive and grow in countless ways.
Leaving your comfort zone can also mean leaving your job and entering a new field, or ending a relationship in order to get to know yourself as an individual.
Ditching your comfort zone means doing something that you’ve always wanted to but never had the courage to.
Take more risks. Go on an adventure without planning. Take a big decision quickly and make the most of it. Start talking openly about yourself and don’t be afraid to be judged.
This an exciting and fantastic way to live your life.
Set one of these life goals today! Don’t leave it for later. You’ve done that before and it didn’t turn out well.
Now, you’ve learned how to set life goals.
So, write down your goal now. By doing this you’re increasing your chances of achieving it sooner. Find accountability. Make a plan. Define the first steps and go take action tomorrow, no matter how small. Track progress and feel good when you see you did well. Let that motivate you to keep going.
You should be excited about setting life goals, as that will be a turning point in your journey and the foundation of a brighter future.
So, what goal will you be setting today?
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Vishen Lakhiani
Natasha Wanderly
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