Comments on: My Ultimate Goals Revealed

By: Don

Don — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:47:13 +0000

Having clear goals in life is both motivating and inspiring. It makes the difference between living a fulfilling life and just living a routine and boring one.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:51:19 +0000

You make a good point Philip, there is a lot of travel on there and not much personal development.

Despite the fact it is a huge part of my life, as important if not more of a priority than travel; I don’t really see personal development or elements of it as a goal. To me it’s just gradual improvement in all areas of my life. Kaizen!

I just had a quick look and I really noticed only 2 or 3 goals that could be classed as self improvement. However in order to achive many of the others I will have to improve myself.

For instance in order to give a life changing speech for 300+ people I will have to improve my speaking voice, become more confident in front of large groups of people and more.

To me self improvement is something you do in order to achieve other things, not so much a goal of its own. Might have to write more about this soon.

We have a few similar companies in Australia that let you drive a bunch of exotic cars, might have to do one soon. I like your idea of tying it in with travel. Would love to drive a Ferrari in Italy and a Porsche in Germany.

I agree on your point about vague goals. Most of mine are pretty measurable, that one is intentionally vague because I don’t know what stunt I want to do, but to me its pretty specific I want to do something awesome and as original as possible that would have impressed P.T. Barnum.

I’ll have a story of some of the goals up by tomorrow (Tuesday) along with a surprise I am really excited about.

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:06:09 +0000

It is always nice to read other people’s goals. It also serves as a reminder that I can achieve my own goals. Sadly I think lists have too many travel related goals. I know that it is wonderful to travel and experience other things, but I love lists that are heavy on personal development goals and things you can do where you live. Though, I do love your goal to live as a nomad. I hope to do that for at least a year too.

I didn’t know if you ever saw sites like these, but I think there are places you can test drive cars. I noticed number 29. A site like http://www.ferraridriving.com offers all three. Sadly it isn’t in your country, but you might be able to tie that in when you are visiting another country.

I am just curious on your view of vague goals. I heard that it is harder to achieve those since you don’t have a nice easy way to tell if you did it or not. One that seemed a bit too vague was “Do a crazy stunt that would make P.T. Barnum proud.” It is an awesome goal, but I am curious if you would be as likely to do it if it was clearer?

Good luck with goals! I look forward to hearing about stories of the completed ones.