Your Lifetime Goals

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or by a time at least, say, 10 years in the future) as setting Lifetime Goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making.

To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some of these categories (or in categories of your own, where these are important to you):

• Artistic:
  Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what?
  
  

• Attitude:
  Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.
  
  
• Career:
  What level do you want to reach in your career?
  
  
• Education:
  Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to achieve other goals?
  
  
• Family:
  Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?
  
  
• Financial:
  How much do you want to earn by what stage?
  
  
• Physical:
  Are there any athletic goals you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?
  
  
• Pleasure:
  How do you want to enjoy yourself? - you should ensure that some of your life is for you!
  
  
• Public Service:
  Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?