Importance of Goal setting

                                     If we read a successful person's biography they have set goals in their life and they have achieved them. In many self-help books, authors normally advise to set goals. All the motivational speakers guide how to set goals and even they introduce the correct strategies. So why is goal setting so important.

               Just think of a ship on the shore having no exact harbor to sail. Do you think the ship would go anywhere? It would only just float on water and have not reached anywhere after a certain amount of time. Another good example is a taxi. When you get into a taxi, don't you tell the taxi driver to where to go? Definitely you inform. Why, because unless the taxi driver cannot know where he should drive his taxi to. If I get a third example, let's get a situation we go shopping. What if we get into a super market without having a clear idea of what to buy? The chances are that we would finish coming out buying things we do not really want.

         Life is no different. We have to decide what we want out of life. You can ask yourself that "what do I really want from life?" Do you want to be rich, do you want to be famous or do you want to own a Mercedes-Benz S class L450.Whatever you want from life, right after you make a decision the relevant mechanism is triggered and   starts working. And your mind gets crystal clear about what you want and you get a big motivation from distinguishing your wants from do not wants. That inner drive makes you to take actions and when you take actions from step by step; your belief system is updated, modified. From your little steps you get small results and may be little by little it will creep into your mind that your goal is possible. By that momentum you intend to continue and a little rock becomes a big stone which is able destroy a whole area of land. Finally, your will see that you have achieved your goal which you had set in the past.     

                   By Tharindu Madhusankha.