Continuation: Deciding
on your Goals
By
now you have ably written on the first five areas of goal setting, next is the
final five. Probably you have struggled to come up with action plans in each of
the five, that’s a good thing as its proof you are thinking effort and sieving through
thoughts.
As
you move on you need to be recap with the goal test check, these will help you
to focus on the main goal achieving process. This question format check-list
horns your action steps and further sieves out only that which is important to
you:
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Why you are making this goal commitment?
(Benefit)
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How you are making this goal commitment?
(Action plan)
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How you are setting and prioritizing this goal commitment? (Implementation)
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How are you going to shake off paradigms that keep battling this
goal commitment?
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(Keeping on-course)
6. Social
The purpose of setting this
goal is to give and take the very best inspiration from your social surrounding.
The result therefore would be a conscious responsible social being.
Actions breakdown could range
from: interactions with friends and family, finding and giving love, mentoring
others (Personal Social Responsibility PSR) to your own tailored social setup.
What is in it for you or your
benefit or ‘nfuniramu wa’?
You will have a blueprint on
dealing with social opportunities and pressures.
7. Education&Career
The purpose of setting this
goal is to have a clear career and education plan that is in line with your
aspirations. The result therefore would be clear way forward on career and
education annual actions.
Actions breakdown could range
from: consistently delivering on your job, acquiring new knowledge through
study, attending professional seminars to providing leadership in whichever
role you hold.
What is in it for you or your
benefit or ‘nfuniramu wa’?
Lay foundation and build onto
steps for your career aspirations.
8. Finances
The purpose of setting this goal
is to take full responsibility of your Finances of: earnings, savings and
expenditures. The result therefore would be an intimate and effective control
over my: earnings, savings and expenditures and their respective habits.
Actions breakdown could range
from: Earnings: where you could commit to recording them, expanding them;
Savings: forming your habit like agreeing on portion of your earnings to save,
where to keep them safely (investment or emergency fund on bank account) to
Expenditure: you could commit to recording them you will be pleasantly
surprised at where you hard eared money goes, agree to live within your means
so you don’t pile up unnecessary and drowning debt, could put a cap on certain
expenses like wedding meeting contributions.
What is in it for you or your
benefit or ‘nfuniramu wa’?
Ability to meet the basic needs
and wants for a comfortable and desirable life devoid of ostentation.
9. Investments
“If you want a shade in old
age, you have to plant the tree early in life”.
The purpose of setting this
goal is to achieve financial freedom. The result therefore would be an
independent minded you, who spends your time in more meaningful ways.
Actions breakdown could range
from: investment to acquire, dispose or maintain these might be real estate/land,
shares at the stock market, a small business you run, provident fund at office,
the village SACCO holding or the investments club holding
What is in it for you or your
benefit or ‘nfuniramu wa’?
Spot-on and quick investment
decision making, Step towards financial independence
10. Contingency
The purpose of setting this
goal is to complete the balance by capturing any goal action that doesn’t fall
in the above nine.
We have to pilot our own dreams; we
cannot entrust them to anyone else. People who aren’t following their own
dreams resent us pursuing ours. Such persons feel inadequate when we succeed,
so they try to drag us down; don’t be that, it isn’t progressive.
In the next article we conclude these
series on Goal setting, as you write out your action steps for in all your goal
setting areas, remember that for years we lined up in the banking halls within
a specified time to withdraw or make payments, but thanks to the dreams of
Safaricom mobile money we can do that instantly on our mobile phones and before
that someone dreamt the /mobile phone. The imaginative personalities overcome
ridicule and doubt to pioneer the money transfer convenience and East Africa
has never been the same; and as they dream some more you next loan will be
disbursed onto the mobile phone.
Many of us play small because we do
not allow ourselves to dream. We trap ourselves in reality and never dare to go
beyond what we can see with our eyes, we are enslaved by procrastination. Your
predominant question should be why not as opposed to self-doubt. Imagination
lifts us beyond average by giving us a vision of life that surpasses what we
are experiencing currently.
Dreams are fragile supply that extra
self-confidence. Dreams infuse our spirit with energy and spur us on to
greatness. As you decide on your goals NEVER stop dreaming!
If you find it helpful, share with a friend and for any queries contact him through email on the address muantus@gmail.com or Facebook;www.facebook.com/muhimbise.andrew)
End
of Part II-b
Next
Part III: Building a support group and rewards
Andrew
Muhimbise, General Manager of the Rats Network Investments Group (RNIG),
Kampala.
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