The book of rituals, by James B. Pulsipher is one of my favorites. The book encourages us to set goals, plans, and guidelines for our lives and helps us make that change a reality. It is well written and highly recommended.
I think these days a lot of people are putting their goals and guidelines on paper (whether in an online forum or on paper), and that’s great. I can’t say I like that idea because I’m against putting our goals and guidelines on paper. I think it makes it harder to achieve our goals and puts us more on a pedestal. But it’s not my goal to discourage people from putting their goals and guidelines on paper.
There are two basic types of goals: concrete and abstract. Concrete goals are things we want to do or achieve. We have a set of concrete goals and a set of concrete actions. Abstract goals are things we want to do because that is what we are good at, or because they are the best way to accomplish our goals.
To attain good concrete goals we need to be able to think about them and imagine how we would reach them. To get good abstract goals we need to be able to think about them and imagine how we would accomplish them. In other words, if you want to achieve our goals, we need to think about them and then set up a plan to accomplish the results. I believe that both of these should be a part of self-awareness.
When we do just what we are told to do, we are not self-aware. We live in a world that is so full of information and so much information about us that we can easily get lost in all that. We don’t have the luxury of just doing what we are told to do.
You know what? When I say self-awareness, I don’t really mean this. What I mean is that we need to think about our goals in such a way that we can actually reach them. Think about them in a way that will enable us to act on them. For example, if we want to buy a new car, we need to think about it and plan it out in such a way that we can actually buy it. We dont need to do it in a random way.
So how does one actually plan out a goal like buying a new car? Well, the first step is to have a goal. You need an idea, a goal, of what you want the car to do for you. That is, you need to have some goal (or goals) in mind. You need to know what you want to get out of the car so you can figure out what it should be doing.
You also need to have a goal that you actually want to get out of the car. That is, you need to have a goal in mind on how you want the car to help you. You need to have a goal in mind how you want the car to be. It should be a goal that you actually want to get.
If you don’t have any goals, you have no way to know what you need to do to make it happen. This is why I’m so passionate about this subject of goal setting. Goal setting is the single most important thing, because it makes making a car do what you want it to do a lot easier. You’ll find that it’s easy to make a car do what you want it to do if you have a set of goals.
Yes, I am obsessed with goal setting. I have a list of goals for my car (and it’s a list that includes a lot of stuff I don’t even care about) and I try to set those goals each day. Why? If you have goals in life that you can’t reach then you are going to struggle. I find that setting goals helps me keep my motivation high and helps me stick to my resolutions.