Identifying your goals part I

For everyone who have not Identify their life goals or purpose, the following thoughts or questions may be helpful in knowing it:
(1) what are your five most important ideals or values in life? Identifying your values and their degree of importance to you will help you to know which goal means much to you in the long term compared to others. Hence this prevents wastage of valuable resources on tasks or goals that are not important to you;
(2) what are your three most important goals? If given 20 to 30 seconds to write down the goals that are worth your resources, the top three goals on your list are usually the once that you should dedicate your life on;
(3) what will you do if you won 50 million dollars in lottery? 
Two necessities generally drives our commitments and life choices, namely: time and money. The illusion that we have eternity to live or too meager amount of money to live on clouds our judgments on issues and prevents us from critical thinking. Taking money as a case study, what ever you will do if you win 50 million dollars task free in lottery is probably the goal that you should set and pursue;
(4) what will you do if you have only six months on earth to live?
Again one of the two major necessities that drives our choices is at work here: time. Thinking we have too much of it is what creates 'thinking cobwebs' that needs to be cleared. In clearing this cobwebs, we need to assume we have little of it left. That is why time is a great factor in any circumstances in which it is involved. Without it, every other factors put together and working flaulessly are still rendered useless or meaningless. For instance, a team that is less talented but lucky sometimes wins football matches. The opponent lost because they ran out of time. Given enough time, they would have won. So in six months of your life, what game do you consider worth winning to make your life count? That is probably the goal(s) you should decide to dedicate your life to;
(5) what have you wanted to do that will give you the greatest sense of fulfillment, satisfaction, joy and self esteem? 
Anything that make you feel good and accomplished to the point that you no longer fear the unknown is what you should commit yourself to;
(6) what task will you embark on if you are guaranteed of success or you are not afraid of any other issues? 
What keep us back from launching forward into a goal are the fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of ridicule etc. If all these thinking cobwebs are cleared, goals are naturally crystallized. 
All these questions are helpful in identifying goals that are important to us. Setting goals that are not important to us, that we don't care about, makes their accomplishment stressful.
Thank you for your time with me today. Do well also to join me next time for a fresh episode. Till then, don't forget to rule your world. 

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