Wednesday 14 September 2005

Goals!


The most important thing you can do for yourself is define YOUR goals.

We are all different people with differing priorities and wishes. Stephen Covey talks a lot about this. Begin with the End in Mind - a chapter in 7 habits of Highly Effective People - is about setting long-term goals based on "true-north principles". Covey recommends to formulate a "personal mission statement" to document one's perception of one's own purpose in life. He sees visualization as an important tool to develop this. He also deals with organizational mission statements, which he claims to be more effective if developed and supported by all members of an organization, rather than being prescribed.

I have found if you do not have a clear goal in mind there are plenty of people out there quite willing to tell you what it should be.

To that end here is an interesting article about personal mission statements.

Personal Mission Statements.

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