We often get so caught up in doing, that we forget to check if what we are doing is really helping us proceed to our desired goals or destinations. While action is important, it is critical that the action is something that it taking you closer to (and not further away) from your desired goals. Are you on the right road?
Advice from Masters – Quotes & Tips on the Right Road
The right map: If you have the right map of Chicago, then diligence becomes important, and when you encounter frustrating obstacles along the way, then attitude can make a real difference. But the first and most important requirement is the accuracy of the map.
Workers, Managers and Leaders: You can quickly grasp the important difference between the two if you envision a group of producers cutting their way through the jungle with machetes. They’re the producers, the problem solvers. They’re cutting through the undergrowth, clearing it out. The managers are behind them, sharpening their machetes, writing policy and procedure manuals, holding muscle development programs, bringing in improved technologies and setting up working schedules and compensation programs for machete wielders. The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, “Wrong jungle!” As individuals, groups, and businesses, we’re often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don’t even realize we’re in the wrong jungle.
Stephen Covey – Author – 7 habits of Highly Effective People / The 8th Habit / First Things First
Top Books on Finding the Right Path
Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Authors: Michael Hyatt,Daniel Harkavy
Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy will show you how you can maximize on the gift of life and become the creator of your destiny rather than its slave. Discover your purpose in this world, the strategies that will make you fulfil it and how you can go to bed everyone with contentment in your heart.
Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals
Authors: Michael Hyatt,
Hyatt gives you easy ways of making your goals a reality without losing interest in them. He also gives you a way out for the times when you get stuck and removes even the remotest possibility of quitting. Hyatt gives an all-rounded preparation for the reader to experience their best year ever.
Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It
Authors: Henriette Anne Klauser,
Transferring your dreams from your mind to paper is the first step to making them come true. This is how most successful people began their journey. Klauser’s pen-to-paper strategy is humbling but highly effective and will change every aspect of your life, from your relationships to your career. It starts by writing down what you want.
Videos – Finding the Right Path
How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig | TEDx
The are 5 key questions that can help you find your life purpose. Who you are? What do you do? Who do you do it for? What do those people need? What do they get out of it? One of the main takeaways is that having clarity on how you help others is a key element of having a life purpose and being happy in life.
Other concepts on Goals, Life Purpose
Goal Planning – Planning, Your Vision & Reviews
One you have settled upon your desired goal, it is essential that you create a clear plan, the provide you visibility of the steps that you need to take to help you achieve your goal. Planning how to reach your goal, is the immediate next step post your having established what your goals are.
Resignation to Life
We have large, ambitious and exotic dreams when we are young, but as the years go by we let go of these dreams and settle for a more normal, mundane and day-to-day existence. This is the unfortunate truth for the vast majority, but not for everyone – and it does not need to be your truth either.
No Purpose
A radical, yet widely accepted belief amongst those with a strong spiritual bent, is that life has no external or material purpose. Society has brainwashed us to believe that we need to achieve so-and-so, making us all scurry around in a never-ending cycle of ‘doing’, instead of being able to just enjoy life and be in the present.
Journals
The practice of Journaling (writing your thoughts into a diary on a daily basis) has been proven to be of tremendous value in helping you reach your goals, change behavior, clear your mind and deal with a range of negative issues. A simple daily habit, that can truly transform your life.