Tip #3: Set a Personal Goal

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
-Steve Jobs

When I learned the word, goal, and what it meant as a child, I must have remembered its definition by its first two letters: Go. Today, whenever I think about setting a “goal,” I think about moving forward.

GOing forward.

Now, lets focus on one specific goal. Set a goal that is achievable today. You want to focus on breaking a large goal (e.g., Be Happy or Run a Marathon) into smaller goals (e.g., Read favorite magazine for 10 minutes today or Buy running shoes today) that will keep you on track, and set you up for success rather than failure.

Take home message:

Set personal goals and move forward with greater energy and passion.

“Before my diagnosis, I studied until I was beyond stressed and put off doing anything fun until my to-do list was done…. Today, I realize that I need to take time to do things for pure enjoyment. I still study and try my hardest, but I am not going to get depressed if I fall short of perfection. A perfect score can’t replace or even make my life as full as time spent with family and friends. I now know when to say ‘good enough’ and do something that makes me happy.”
-Jessica Myers (Featured in Perseverance)