The idea of ​​setting goals is based on the principle that things are made twice, the first in our minds by forming a clear and detailed picture of what we want to achieve, and what our lives will look like in a year, five or ten years. The second on the ground through directed hard work... just like an architect who draws up a blueprint for the house he wants to build. This blueprint contains all the minute details of every corner of the house before he drives a single nail.

- Why should we set goals:

 

"You are not lazy, you just have impotent goals."

Second: Goals are the best way to increase one’s productivity and achievement. In a study conducted at Yale University in 1953, students were asked who had written future goals. The percentage was about three percent. The rest had no clear goals. Researchers followed these students for twenty years and found that – of those they could reach – the achievement of those three percent was equal to that of the remaining ninety-seven percent of students.

Third: Goals clarify the vision, show a person the direction of the path he should take, and serve as a standard that each of us can use before embarking on any project. For example, if you are invited to do a certain job, you will ask yourself: Is this job in line with the goals I have set and will it therefore achieve what I aspire to, or will it keep me busy without much benefit?

Anthony Robbins likened those who set goals and those who don’t to a child playing with construction toys. You know that the child here sees the big picture and puts the small pieces together according to the picture. The person who doesn’t set goals for his life is like someone who puts the small pieces together without seeing the real picture. Imagine how difficult, even impossible, his task is!

Fourth: Goals focus efforts and prevent distraction. How many young people have I met who have a sincere desire and good mental abilities, but they are distracted and unfocused. One day they read here and another day they read there, and they put their effort into one task and then move on to another. Thus, life passes without any real achievement that raises the level of the individual and the nation.

I can liken the goal setting to someone who buys a certain type of car. Right away, he will start noticing cars that look like his new car. He may be surprised by how many cars look like his new car and he hadn’t noticed that before. In the same way, someone who sets a goal will have his attention and interest wherever he goes. If you remember our friend who set out to become a history buff, this young man will pay more attention to any event related to history, such as a lecture or a talk show, than anyone else, which will unify his efforts in that direction.

- Objective characteristics:

Motivating goals have certain characteristics and features that I will review below:

 

First: Motivating goals must be consistent with your priorities and work to preserve and highlight your personal values.. because this consistency is what gives you the strength and motivation to persevere in achieving change.. Therefore, when you work on building your goals, you must ask yourself a very important question: What is the thing that is worth spending hours and days on, and making efforts for? What are the things that you give the greatest and most important value in your life? What exactly do you want? What is the idea or work that you find yourself ready to spend the most expensive and cheap for?

When you have insight into what is important and essential in your life (this is what we call the value ladder), and then you start changing according to this importance, know that you have breathed into this project a strong spirit that will not be extinguished. Even if its light fades, it will be easy to revive it again. Even the failures and obstacles that you will encounter in your path will be easy for you to overcome or accept.

These priorities must be present in your mind at all times. In fact, one of the difficult moments for a person, which may pass after a long period of work and effort, is his feeling that what he occupied himself with was of little importance, and that he was delusional when he gave this work more importance than it could bear.