There are many benefits as to setting goals and striving to achieve them. They include the following: 1. helps one focus on achieving success 2. achieving success may lead to raising one's self-confidence 3. goals are essential to self-improvement.\n\nSo, what's your answer? What do YOU think the benefits of setting goals are, and what are other reasons why one should set goals? \n\n(This is for my how-to essay in Literacy class. I was hoping if I could seek for some assistance.) Thank-you~~
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the stisfaction of achieving them
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anyone can do anything that they want. You just need to do it. Don't ask yourself what if I fail, just do it, and don't quit until you accomplish your goals.
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Everyone has one point of time have Big Goals and Dreams. We are born with Goals and dreams, there's nothing wrong with it. (Think about when you were a child, do you have big goals and dreams). The sad thing is that too many people sell themselves short when they grow older. Life gets in the way esp. finances and they begin to settle. They shrink their dreams to meet their income. That is why most people live in mediocrity.\n\nSuccessful people (less than 5% in America) do the opposite. They don't let circumstances control them. If they have big goals and dreams, they find ways to make more income to achieve those dreams. \n\nI am certain that I will be rich coz I have big dreams and goal and I found the vehicle to achieve them. If I am not lazy, all my dreams are going to come true. I am in the process of chasing my dreams everyday. The only way to achieve your dreams is to materialized them in your mind. You can never have what you don't believe could happen. This is call faith.\n\nMoney is not the root of all evil, the love of money is. So, chase your dream and live your life to the fullest so that you won't have any regrets. Don't ever let the nay-sayers take away your dreams because Dreams come from God and only Him can take it away from you.
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Not possible. You have to have some discipline to stick with a plan. If you don't stick with a plan, you will reach your goal.
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I'll take your interview but first I'd like to say that success is defined differently by everyone.  In my point of view, success has nothing to do with money.\n\n1.  I define success as being a state of mind.  I feel successful when my family is healthy and happy.  \n\n2.  Becoming successful is not as difficult as remaining successful.   First of all, you need a clear goal.  I feel that I became a successful person by working hard (be it school, work, volunteering, etc).  I never really did anything I didn't want to devote time and effort to, everything I did was done in order to attain a goal.  I remain successful by keeping my commitment to my goal and by continuing to work hard.  No matter how successful you may feel, success really just means you need continued work and commitment.  THAT'S what is difficult for most people.  Once they see a goal has been attained they forget that most things go just as easily as they come.  You have to continue to work hard to keep your success.\n\n3.  So far, I have my BS, MS and I'll be working on my PhD in the near future.\n\n4.  No...like I said, I'll be working on my PhD in the near future.  Once I get there I'll have achieved my goals.\n\n5.  Yes I am.  I have a healthy, happy family...I'm totally happy.\n\n6.  I'd first tell you that you need a road map.  You can't begin a journey without knowing where you're headed, right?  Why would you begin a "road to success" without knowing where you want to go?  Pick a goal for yourself, where you do envision yourself in ten to fifteen years?  Aim for it, research what you need, plan (short & long term) and go for it.\n\n7.  Sometimes, the road gets rough, real rough but you cannot give up, you have to keep going.  I found myself broke, married, pregnant and still in school when I was almost done with my BS.  I kept going, I had to if I was going to achieve my goal.  Somehow, I made it through.  If you really, really want it then that just means you have to be persistent, if you are, you'll persevere and get wherever it is you want to be.  I was once the type of child that everyone called "at risk" an immigrant ten year old, poor, and with no English.  Hey, if I can achieve what I have, anyone can!
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Meeting God should have been the immediate answer but there are many highest goals which wish i could attain eg to eradicate poverty, diseases,illteracy.....establish permanent global peace,..\nAnd of course to know why have you asked such a subtle queestion when you know for sure that "highest goals' are stamdards set by others....ones highest goal could be another persons lowest!\nI bet you will never get a satisfactory answer unless you have one already in your heart.
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Maybe if we are always satisfied with everything, the drive to achieve will be lost. Of course, we need to find a balance between finding happiness with things we have and finding things worth fighting for. It is easier to stay satisfied with smaller goals that matter to us. So it might be wise to pick your battles carefully.\n\n"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length." -- Robert Frost (I think that's how the quote goes.)
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OF COURSE!!!! I love the feeling of beating your own best at something, it means that you are improving and have either reached a goal or are well on your way to acheiving it! My favourite "personal best" moment was at a track meet in triple-jump in grade ten when i made it to the meet before OFFSAA (ontario meet) and I jumped my personal best of 8.68m. I still came in like 6th but I jumped 20cm farther than I ever had before and that made me feel great! Congratualations on your personal best and keep going! Reach for the stars girl!
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I think answering these questions gives us a quick "ego boost".  We don't have to invest much and the satisfaction is obtained as soon as we click the "submit" button.\nWe don't often get the same opportunity in our important jobs or studies. It may take a very long process to reach the goal or the change desired is very slow in the making.\nI personally am finishing a Master's in the Mental Health field.  This is a long arduous process and therapy in general brings about change slowly and often going backwards before going forwards. \nIn consulting with my supervisors, it actually can be very healthy to have some activities that get you quick answers or changes.  This is part of our self-care.\nFor example, it's very difficult and disheartening to work with someone who keeps cutting, using drugs, etc.  While seeing them make any steps forward is rewarding (and is why I am in this field), waiting for this to happen can leave me feeling helpless and just plain sad.\nSo....I go home and paint a room a new color.  I plant a few flowers.  I take a few minutes to answer your email.
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You answered your own question:\n\n"What you feel you must do to accompolish them"\n\nYou must have a plan to make them a reality.\n\nIf it is a longterm goal, you MUST break it into a bunch of shorterm goals, and reward yourself for reaching each of them.\n\nAlways remember that as soon as you stop setting goals, you no longer have a reason to accomplish anything, and in most cases you will not. So keep setting them and achieving them.
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Without some sort of merit system, where is the incentive to preform or produce results? If "employee A" comes in on time, works hard, and produces results and "employee B" is the opposite, why should they be paid the same? If they are, "employee B" eventually reailzes his great work ethic isn't getting him anywhere and stops working so hard. No results, no money, no company - everyone loses their job!
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Pride, knowing that you went out and gave your best.  If you set goals like winning championships or games there are several variables that you can't control (you can't control the level of your competitors or how they play), you can only control how you play.  Set goals for your players to go out and do as much as they can and tell them to play for themselves and their own pride.  \n\nIf you still go out and lose, you can still feel good about yourself knowing that there was nothing else you could do and try again the next day.
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The article "Why Self Employment?" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol15/self.htm talks of three goals for starting a business:\n\n1. Your Economic Goals = to increase your income and earn more money; replace income; and augment family income\n\n2. Your Retirement Goals = Corollary to your economic goals, some people start entrepreneurial ventures specifically to provide a comfortable nest egg for their retirement. They believe that they can do a better job of ensuring their future and making sure that they have money for retirement if they are in charge of their own income.  \n\n3. Your Personal Goals = For some people, money is not the sole attraction of self-employment. These people are driven by their own personal agenda that only the process of starting a business can provide. \n\nThis is what is often called "lifestyle entrepreneurship" where the lifestyle that entrepreneurship can bring is more important than any financial rewards
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As for me, I'm procrastinating.  I have lots of difficult things going on in my life right now, so I'm avoiding them by coming on here.  Right now my pseudo goal is getting to 1000 points (level 3).  I've told myself that when I get 1000 points, I'll go do one of the more trying things on my plate.  I'll be at 988 after this question.  These are the strange games procrastinators play.\n\nI have accomplished several other tasks today by playing these silly games.  I am sure there are many fellow procrastinators with me.  Others may just be home from work feeling a little sick, but not too sick for this.  Others may be what we used to call losers before we became more enlightened.  Uh-oh, I don't want to think too much about the difference between a procrastinator and a loser!\n\nBasically that's who's on here! LOL!  (That's more loser talk!)  My other form of procrastination is Yahoo Games.
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The problem with communism is that it removes most of the incentives for a person to excell. If there is no reward for above average or better performance, why should you push yourself? What would be the point of trying to innovate in that kind of system?
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If you cannot see yourself achieving thiese goals, then why stress yourself out to do so? Life has no timelines. No rush to do things before a certain point. Why not plan a few years in advance? Try graduating first. Now, as far as buying a home, thats not a bad idea, my boyfriend and I are still in college and bought a duplex (home as well as investment). Get married after graduating is not a bad idea, depending on how old you are, it might be better to wait. I would wait until working for at least a year or so for the baby so you can have sick leave and vacation built up,  as well as money saved hopefully. Why rush? Why not make it a happy experience? I want a baby badly too, but why make myself miserable and poor by having it now?
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I attend Weight Watchers, and I can tell you that if you buy the books, it pretty much explains everything in detail.  Also, your weekly motivation booklets explain things even more clearly, as to what your goals should be each week.  The meetings are more for support, your leaders just tells you what she/he does to keep going, and to tell you the truth that helps a lot, so you might want to ask if they have anyone that can sign for you, or you can take a buddy that knows how to sign, with you.  I would recommend that you do that, because you can really benefit from other peoples experiences.  Good Luck!