Can you
imagine a football or hockey field without goals on either side? How will the
teams play? Will they just keep moving the ball from one end to another? How
will we decide the winner? Just like the players on these fields without goals,
many students keep running about aimlessly with the ball! They score no goals –
because there are none before them!
Lack of Goals
A
major cause of low achievement is having no goals in life. Many youngsters
contend that when they reach the appropriate age, the goals will appear before
them. They will then score. Unfortunately, it never happens like that. Once a
child begins to study, there should be a goal towards which he gradually moves.
If you have nowhere to go, you will reach just there– nowhere! Just as a boat without a
rudder cannot be steered towards its destination, similarly, we cannot be
successful without a goal in life. Those who set out in life with definite
goals achieve much more than their friends who have no goals. This is a fact
proved repeatedly.
♦ Most people work without any goals.
♦ To succeed, we must have goals.
♦ We can have long-term and short-term goals.
♦ Goals must be challenging, achievable, flexible and time-bound.
♦ We must remind ourselves of our goals everyday.
♦ We must plan to achieve our goals.
♦ Failing to plan = Planning to fail!