“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” – Benjamin Mays
You may know what you want in life, but without setting a clear goal on how to commit and achieve it, only makes it a wish.
As a life coach, most people who come to my office for life coaching sessions have one thing in common, and that is: There are no meaningful goals in place. This observation prompted me to dedicate a chapter in my ten-chapter book, You Are Born to Win! on how to set meaningful goals.
Animals just live for the day, but human beings are meant to have goals and plans for the future, instead of just living for the day and hoping that tomorrow will be better.
Albert Einstein once said: “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” This simply means that your happiness should come from you achieving your goals, not hoping that people or things will bring it to you.
The day I realized that I didn’t have to wait for things to happen in my life, but that I had to make things happen, my life immediately changed for the better, leading to my happiness.
No one could have convinced me that one day I will be an author, a professional speaker, a life coach and an entrepreneur, I would not even convince myself. Things changed for me the day I acknowledged that no one was exactly like me, and I therefore didn’t need to be like someone else but me. I then started to set meaningful goals that were in line with who I wanted to be, not what other people wanted me to be. Very important that.
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