Worthy Goals And Ideals

A major ingredient of success is worthy goals and ideals. Perhaps your deepest subconscious drive, according to Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning, is the need for meaning and purpose in life. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
Happiness has been defined as “the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” you can only be happy when you are working step by step towards something that is really important to you.
Think about what sort of activities and accomplishments you most enjoy. What were you doing in the past when you were the happiest? What sort of activities gives you your greatest sense of meaning and purpose in life? You must know that any goal that does not give you happiness and satisfaction is not a worthy goal. It is the sense of fulfillment that follows accomplishment of any goal that makes that goal a worthy one. Therefore if there is any ideal you set whose attainment does not make you feel great, that ideal cannot be a worthy ideal for you.
Think about the goals you may have set before now. Do they give you direction? Assuming you have realized all of them how great and fulfilled would you be? These shall be your guiding questions as you formulate your goals and ideals.
In goal setting you must know that your ideals are different from mine. You are the king of your goals. Your goals must be relevant to your purpose in life. They must aim at your fulfillment without which those goals are useless. Think therefore about your purpose in life so that you can rightly set worthy goals and ideals. Worthy goals and ideals are channels through which your purpose can be accomplished in life. A writer once said that a man without purpose cannot set worthy goals and that his life will be directionless and unexciting.
Do you know that you can give your life meaning? Do you know that you can excite your life? Do you believe that you can achieve great things in life? Yes you can. You can do all these but you have to start by setting goals and ideals relevant to your dreams.
When can you start? Now is the best time to start setting your goals.
Good luck as you journey to success!