Why I have no goals 2009-06-22
I got a email from a guy named Roy H. Williams about “goals” vs. “plans”, I feel his words are very insightful and I wanted to share them with you! ~ Niko
Why I Have No Goals
“Goal,” in my experience, is a favorite word of people who talk and dream and dream and talk. And then they get together to “network” with other talkers. There’s always a lot of noise in these meetings but it’s unlikely that anything of consequence is going to happen. People who chatter about goals are rarely willing to die on that mountain.
I have no goals. But I do have plans.
A plan puts you in motion toward a destination. The destination you choose is irrelevant. It is (1.) motion, (2.) determination and (3.) commitment that separate destination-reaching explorers from goal-setting chipmunks.
Count the cost, explorer. “Am I willing to die on this mountain?”
A goal without a plan is wishful thinking.
A plan without action is self-delusion.
Here are three questions I’d like to ask:
1. What are you trying to make happen?
2. How will you measure success?
3. What’s the first thing you need to do to get started?
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Hi Niko, sorry for the delay,i just wanna wish a great year,another year ,another year old ( er )…that`s nothing much i know what i`m talking about,so enjoy this one !!!
Wish ya all the best
Antonio
Very good argument there!
I make plans, they take me places, and once I’m there I see what my goal (for that moment) really is.
F.I. a while ago I went to see my friend Ras Fire perform, he is ever so inspiring. Being friends who love one another we made the plan for me to play too on that occasion, an honour! But the party got hot and exiting, pple were hacing so much fun dancing to the DJ who was beaming with pleasant surprise. So I played for Ras in his dressing room and he loved it, saying: Npw I can hear every word! So for that night the plan was great, but the goal changed and it made Ras really happy. We talked a lot after that moment, still in the dressingroom and reinforced our friendship!
Thamks Niko for sgaring this, great stuff!
Very good argument there!
I make plans, they take me places, and once I’m there I see what my goal (for that moment) really is.
F.I. a while ago I went to see my friend Ras Fire perform, he is ever so inspiring. Being friends who love one another we made the plan for me to play too on that occasion, an honour! But the party got hot and exiting, pple were having so much fun dancing to the DJ who was beaming with pleasant surprise. So I played for Ras in his dressing room and he loved it, saying: Now I can hear every word! So for that night the plan was great, but the goal changed and it made Ras really happy. We talked a lot after that moment, still in the dressingroom and reinforced our friendship!
Thanks Niko for sharing this, great stuff!
This is my comment of september 1st 2009, just corrected some typo’s. It still illustrates how I think about goals and plans.
You might also say: I make plans. They’re flexible, I can adjust my plan according to the circumstances. Thus I am open to God’s Plan or Goal. If it would be my goal to become famous I would be unhappy. I’m almost 60, so why would I keep thinking of a career in pop music? Instead I have committed myself to singing for the ones I love, my wife, who lived longer because she enjoyed listening so much, and f.i. my friend S. who wrote: “I was prepared to bid this life farewell. The doctor gave me so many medicines that I can chose: do I take tranquilizers or painkillers? ” She wrote how she found my song The Pit, that describes me, standing on a rooftop, desperate, but how I refuse to jump because in the rain that falls I hear God’s name. I sang that song only once, when I recorded it. S. writes: this song is my favorite. It got me through the night. You might say it saved my life.
That is the sweetest thing any one has ever said about my music. What more do I want?
Doctors couldn’t believe their eyes when my Annet kicked her morphine habit and lived 5 years longer. S. makes it through the night and lives another day. That is success. Isn’t it? I can not imagine this, this happened , I do not dream of saving peoples lives – God had a Plan I couldn’t think of – and He made it work.
Love you Niko,
wish you all the best,
I’m happy to see you’re happy too,
Harry
Hi Niko,
Sorry to disappoint you but I don’t function with goals, plans or any such thing whatsoever. Either you don’t reach them and feel frustrated, or you do and discover they were empty or unfulfilling.
As you may already have read on one of my email boxes, my slogan is “simply be” (which doesn’t mean at all that you don’t do anything, just simply be, in whatever action developping).
Love,
Evelyne
I live day to day I wadding the surprise factor and each day which is a good plan .the success cannot be measured with no everyone has its merit, your success you are yourself and your mio .the stuff I’m myself, without caretas, and the first thing I start with my pronounce positivism is smile smiling welcome and win many hearts. These are my answers cannot be if you earn or not, but what left me heart. A hug from your friend and seguidora.María Angustias.
(Yo vivo el día a día me guata el factor sorpresa y cada día que amanece es un buen plan .El éxito no se mide con nada cada cual tiene su merito ,tu éxito eres tu mismo y tus cosas .el mio soy yo misma ,sin caretas y con mi positivismo .Yo lo primero que hago para empezar es sonreír con la sonrisa se alegran y ganan muchos corazones. Estas son mis respuestas no se si te valdrán o no ,pero es lo que me ha salido del corazón. Un abrazo de tu amiga y seguidora.María Angustias)
live day to day I wadding the surprise factor and each day which is a good plan .the success cannot be measured with no everyone has its merit, your success you are yourself and your mio .the stuff I’m myself, without caretas, and the first thing I start with my pronounce positivism is smile smiling welcome and win many hearts. These are my answers cannot be if you earn or not, but what left me heart. A hug from your friend and seguidora.María Angustias