What's your Goal ?

Majority of the people, who would be reading this, would agree with me that this question was last answered when they were facing the interview panel for a job. A question like “Where do you see yourself 3 years / 5 years from now” was actually to assess the preparedness / planning the candidate had done while applying for the job. Now that we got the job, did we actually look back and check whether we actually reached close to what we had said at the time. If you are honest to yourself, more than 70% of us would say “NO”.  Some of us, including me, wouldn’t even remember what they had said at the time of the interview. The reason was because at that time, we were more interested to get the job rather than actually plan where we wanted to be at the end of 5 years. We are so involved in day to day battles that we spend all our times fire fighting and forget where we had intended to reach after a certain time. It is very important that we keep track of our goals and measure our achievement against the target. This ensures that we don’t fall off track and loose sight of our goal. We also need to know the importance of having the right goals because having a wrong one is as or more dangerous than not having any goal at all. An ideal goal should be realistic, achievable, should be of prime importance to us and we should be willing to pay the price to achieve it.

As the saying goes, “there’s never a wrong time to do the right thing.” Do ask this question to yourself and make sure that you pen the answer down today.