You Must Have A Goal In Your Life

According to George Eliot, it is never too late to be what you could have been.

Why would you want to set goals for yourself when you can wander throughout without them? Isn’t it more exciting to live moment to moment without planning anything and only living from spontaneous decisions? Spontaneous decisions can lead to unwanted consequences because you have not thought about the long-term effect of these spontaneous decisions. Thinking this way could lead you down the wrong path and you may be unable to find your way back. Plan ahead with goals to ensure desired effects in long run. Here are more reason’s goal setting is necessary.

1. You Are In Control Of Your Life

Having a goal allows you to have more control over your life. It will keep you going in the right direction and keep you from taking the wrong path. With a goal, you will have a clearer view of the destination you are heading in your journey. This will give you more time to plan for whay you really need in your life.

2. You Will Know Which Tasks To Work With First

In preparing the path to your goal, you will decide which things should be done first and avoid other tasks that may not need to be done anytime soon if even at all. You avoid wasting time. With clear goals and tasks for that goal prioritized in importance, you will be efficient with your time and reach your goal quicker.

3. You Will Be Making Better Decisions

When you decide and plan what your goals are in the beginning, you will be making better decisions in the long run. You can determine better where there needs to be an adjustment somewhere in your sequence of tasks or if you need to back track at some point and change parts of your long-term goal.

4. Procrastination Will End

When you have laid out the tasks and prioritized them to complete your goal, you will save a lot of time from guessing, procrastinating or wondering what to do next. You have already laid out the plan and will be busy fulfilling your dreams.

5. You Will Take The Closer Path To Success

Designing goals by laying out what you need to do to help you achieve what you want, will keep you from getting lost or worse get to a point where you do not know what to do and just quit. Without a goal and no real path to follow, you could get lost and never find your way out causing you to just give up and quit. With a goal laid out, you can navigate easily through the thickest jungle.

With a goal planned, you know what to do all the time from start to finish. You have laid out your work. All you need to do is just stay motivated and do the work you laid out to achieve your goal. You know where you are going. It is up to you how fast you get there. You will always have something to look forward to.