Life-Goal Setting: A transforming exercise to align your goals with your true potential
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What Do Life Goals Mean?
Before you give up on your goals, you have to know what it means to create a life goal. I will share it with you!
What’s the difference between a Means Goal and an End Goal?
There are two types of goals: means goals and end goals. We should always focus on the latter.
End goals prompt us to follow our intuition, and feelings
A means goal, on the other hand, is a smaller goal that helps to take you where you want to go.
4 steps to determine your End Goals
Many people don’t ask themselves what it really means to live a good life. But will you be the one who does keep like that?
I will share with you 4 steps to help you answer this big questions once and for all
What Do Life Goals Mean?
Life goals are the long-term goals you set for the trajectory of your life. But here’s the secret: most people don’t have any of them.
When was the last time you’ve asked yourself the question, “What am I doing with my life?”
Quite a scary question to think about, right?
Many of us don’t have life goals because we’ve never stopped to consider what we truly want from our life. What really makes us happy.
Not just what you want today, tomorrow, or a week from now. But what you want out of life.
Means goals vs. end goals
We all seek happiness at the very core of our goals in life. But it is hard to find it because most people set means goals instead of end goals.
What’s the difference between a means goal and an end goal?
A means to an end is a way to achieve something greater.
An end goal is a goal you’ve set for your life. It’s relatively inflexible and rigid — something you’ve envisioned that you don’t want to compromise on.
A means goal, on the other hand, is a smaller goal that takes you where you want to go.
An example of a means goal would be to:
Get a better job
Increase your income
Purchase a nice house or a new car
You might mistakenly think that if you achieve any of these goals, you will be happy and fulfilled. But that is not true!
Although means goals certainly can be helpful, achieving them is not what your life is about. Instead, you want to get clear on your end goals and focus on those, by asking yourself:
What do I really want?
What would genuinely make me and the people I love happy?
4 Ways to Determine Your End Goals
How do you actually determine an adequate and fulfilling end goal?
Let’s explore these four powerful steps to sculpt your life’s end goals.
1. Deep reflection on past experiences
In understanding where you are best suited to be going, you must first look to where you have been. So, do this:
Grab a pen and some paper.
Write down your top 5 most memorable experiences. Good or bad, anything goes.
Return to each one individually. Really focus on only one at a time and try to forget about the others as you do this.
For each memory, write down 5 words. Verbs, nouns, emotions — whatever comes to mind.
Go back through this list of 25 words and look for repeats.
2. Find a common theme
Group these words together into one, two, maybe three categories, and find a common theme.
Ask yourself: Before my final day arrives, what is it I want to experience? What do I not want to miss out in this lifetime? If there were no limitations and you would presume abundance, what could you honestly do without?
Remember, that you are establishing an end goal here, something that will encompass your entire life.
3. Isolate your talents and desires
Begin brainstorming your own abilities and desires.
Write them down in a list right next to this categorical one you’ve just created.
Ask yourself: What are you best at in this life? What do you enjoy doing the most?
Once complete, again, start looking for overlapping themes.
4. Combine everything into one vision
As what you remember to be the most powerful moments of your life begin to overlap with your strongest passions and desires, one all-encompassing direction will start to present itself. This is your end goal.
If you do this repeatedly, and define more end goals, you will start to gain clarity in your life.
It is time to start a goal planner! Take action and begin the process of life creation.
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You can start aligning your daily actions with your life goals right now. Just try it!
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