IF WE want to make progress, if we want to lead a full, useful and meaningful life, we must have goals set before us. Rather than follow the lines of least resistance, “taking it easy,” as the saying goes, being content to drift downstream, we must swim upstream, and to do that we must have goals that motivate us.
Of course, most of us have our daily routine. We get up, bathe, dress, eat and go off to work if we have a job. Or, if we are housewives, we care for domestic duties, or, if we are students, we go to school. But do we perform such daily functions as if pushed along against our will by necessity instead of eagerly doing so in order to reach a worthwhile goal? And what do we do with our leisure time after we have taken care of these necessary things?There simply is not enough time for everything we could or would like to do. So if we don’t set goals, we may find that the things of lesser importance crowd out the things of greater importance. As an old saying has it, “It is never this AND that, but this OR that.” This is a principle behind the counsel, “Never too busy to pray.”
Among purposeful goals that people have set for themselves are those of learning a specific computer program,getting regular exercises which is beneficial for both mind and body,to learn another language besides their native one which can be also most rewarding. Learning another language increases your thinking ability, thus enriching your life. It may also come in handy in other ways,even becoming a means of earning a higher salary in one’s employment.By setting such goal(s) and working at it, you can utilize the time that you would ordinarily have wasted, and eventually you can acquire a useful skill which can prove to be rewarding.And if you are working at a certain routine job, doing the same thing day after day, and that in the same manner and at the same pace,such may well be boring and make you discontented. So why not set yourself a goal that will make it more interesting or more rewarding? Could you find a way of increasing your production? Or could you improve the quality of your work? Could you become more efficient at it, doing the same job with fewer movements? Setting yourself some such goal will make work more interesting, resulting in your having a better frame of mind, and may even result in material benefit to both yourself and your employer.
Do not drift downstream. Be purposeful, set wise goals for yourself, and lead a richer and more meaningful life.What goals have you set for yourself or working at during this pandemic?Be free to share in the comment section.
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