When I entered the business world I had a goal. A goal to make a lot of money. I succeeded and thought I was rich. Yay. Success !!!
But then soon – all too soon – I found out there was more to the story. What Rockefeller and Kennedy knew and taught their kids is once you have it, the rest of the story is to keep it.
New Year’s Resolutions are like this. To make goals to change our lives is just the first half of the story. Antoine de Saint-Exupry stated it well: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
Am I serious? I am now making my New Year’s Resolutions. One is the goal I had a long time ago when I entered the business world, to make a good amount of money. For me. For my family. For others to help build their lives. But I know it is just a wish if I don’t create a firm plan to make it happen.
A plan that is concrete. That identifies exactly what I need to do and break it down step by step. To monitor these “baby steps” a day, a week, a month at a time and make changes in my path as wisdom and patience dictates.
There is a old cliché that says this well: “Plan our work and work our plan.”
I am serious. I plan to change my life in 2018.
Are you serious? Will you make goals and put them in a drawer? Or will you keep your goals on the table? Focusing on them and making them a reality step by step.
Let’s change our lives in 2018. Do it for us. Do it for our family. Do it for others to help them build their lives !!
~ The author is C. F. Sandy Pofahl ~
What a wonderful treatise on change and the folly of setting goals that only enhance our narrow vision of what is success. Thank you for sharing.
P J Hardy