goalsSetting self development goals is a skill that everyone who wishes to be successful should learn and master. However, many people often set the wrong types of self development goals, and as a result either do not achieve what they really want to do in life, or give up on their goals because they do not become motivated by them.
Your basic values form an integral part of the kind of self development goals you set for yourself.
What Are Your Basic Values
Your basic values are the things that you believe in, you are passionate about and what you regard as important.Your basic values make up who you are and what you stand for. The things you value as a person, for example honesty and fairness, would become an important part of your actions and values and therefore your goals would be aligned with them.If you want to make money , you would do so fairly and honestly.
As you set your goals you need to think about your basic values, for if in the end your goals are not in harmony with your basic you would not find the motivation to continue.
So if you strongly value honesty and fairness in life, but then try to make money using dishonest means you are likely to feel bad about doing so, and consequently will lack the motivation to successfully go after and achieve your goals. Doing something that you do not enjoy would mean that you would hardly be successful at it. This is the reason that you choose goals that are aligned with your basic value system.
Another important consideration to make when setting goals is whether or not they challenge you. Your goals should cause you to have to exceed yourself. You have to feel driven to experience them. However, goals should not be too challenging, or unrealistic, as otherwise they will seem impossible to accomplish and you will most likely give up on them.
This does not mean that you should set low goals, or not think big, What is possible for someone , may appear quite impossible for another. So your goals should be in tune with what you believe that you can achieve.Always set goals which are what you believe you can achieve and not what others think that you should achieve.For example, many people did not believe that airplanes would be able to fly.
However, the Wright brothers, did not believe flying was impossible and as a result went onto create the world’s first flying airplane. If the Wright brothers had allowed other peoples limiting beliefs to influence the goals they set for themselves, who knows, maybe we would not have airplanes today.
So when setting yourself goals make sure they are the things that you really want to do in life, and are aligned with what you believe in and believe you can achieve.If you can do this you will set goals that are right for you, and vastly increase the chances that you would accomplish them.