Goals for Your Saturday-Night Essence
In the last several
posts, I have been exploring the subject of one's Saturday-Night Essence or becoming the person you were meant to be and doing the things you were meant to do. This is an interesting subject as it seems that many people are stuck in miserable dead-end jobs, but they feel trapped and unable to break free from the shackles of an unpleasant situation.
However, I hope these discussions have opened a few doors and you have had a glimpse of the person you were meant to be. The next step is to develop some goals. These will vary depending on where you are and what you really want to do.
I need to set professional, personal, and family goals in order to keep my mind fresh and my life progressing. Each year I begin by reviewing the previous year's goals and then I begin to formulate goals for the current year. Most years I'm surprised by the number of goals that have been accomplished and often exceeded.
Someone once told me, "Remember that when you see a man on top of a mountain he didn't fall there." He got there by having a goal and by climbing each step of the way. It is a process of setting goals and reaching them one at a time. You have to know where you want to go and always keep your eye on that vision.
Success isn't never falling; rather, it's rising every time you fall. There will be discouraging factors that enter the productive periods of our lives as we seek our goals, but if we can get up one time more than we go down, we will always win. Life is problem solving, and in solving our problems, we mature and develop and we learn to be creative.
We have within us the ability to succeed in life and to accomplish whatever we wish in whatever our field of pursuit might be. Unfortunately, many of us fall prey to the mediocre life because we haven't fully capitalized on the talents and abilities we posses and have failed to realize the person we were meant to be.