Finding Your Purpose

What is your target?

Goal setting has become a popular planning tool in our American culture. In life and in business we set goals for our personal advancement, to enhance our bottom-line, and to gain prestige and power. However, make sure that you understand that more often than not our goals are based on acquisition. The acquisition of something!

Planning out our daily schedule and checking off a to-do-list is the kid-sister to our goal setting techniques. We have daily plans, weekly plans, yearly plans, and 5-10 year plans. We plan our lives with an internal assumption that we actually have control over our lives.

The problem with goal setting and planning / to-do-lists isn’t that they are inherently wrong, but that they are on based on our skewed belief that we have the god-like power to control circumstances, people, and ourselves.

These statements are not meant to discourage you from setting goals or planning, but merely to assist you to keep it in perspective. Life is fluid, it doesn’t follow a pre-determined course, and there is no accurate fortune-teller devise revealing what lies ahead. The only part of this life-journey that is pre-determined, is that life will come to an end…someway…somehow.

Planning is the course we chart in pursuit of the acquisition of those things (goals) that we judge will bring security, fulfillment, and happiness. When the final act beckons us, will the list of achievements, the hunger for security, and the years of planning fill our final moments of hurried breaths with peace and joy?

What is your TARGET?

The hardest challenge for most of my clients is, “Finding their Target!” A concise target transcends goals and planning. A target can absorb the ebb and flow of life. It is my personal belief that it is possible to blow out the bulls-eye of your life’s target regardless of whether all of your goals are accomplished and your plans come to fruition.

What is your target?

Most of us plan and set goals every day of our lives, but we never take a moment to discover and define what is dead center for our life’s quest.

What is your target?

It sounds simple, but when a concise target is defined, your planning and goal setting has a higher purpose and you can weigh the priority of each decision based on its influence on your target. Perhaps many of your current goals will lose their importance when you set true north (aka target) for your journey. Just maybe, the list of things that you feel guilty for pushing into the shadows will emerge as the most important stepping-stones of life.

One note of caution! Make sure that your target is worth your life’s breath; because ultimately every thing you do is paid for in life equity currency.