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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVtBhVYZwY
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First of all. Take your time. Listing your ultimate goals, the things you really desire might be a little overwhelming.
Use the guidance below and think of what you really want to achieve in your life.
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<aside> 🍅 WRITE DOWN YOUR ULTIMATE GOALS!
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<aside> 🍅 What do You want to experience?
Think about any experience that you wish to have in this lifetime. Consider your love life, your relationships, your sexuality. Think about what experiences you’d like to have with your friends and family. What would you like your social life to look like?
Assume you have unlimited access to funds.
What type of car would you want to drive? What type of home would you want to live in? Are there any other things you dream of having in your life?
And what places do you want to travel to? What type of activities, hobbies, or sports would you love to explore?
Write down everything that you could possibly dream of doing or having that would make you feel happy and joyful.
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<aside> 🍅 How do You want to grow?
How would you like to develop yourself? Think about your intellectual life for instance. What skills would you like to obtain? What languages would you want to master?
But also: what character traits do you admire in others and which would you like to master? How do you want to deal with stressful events in your life for instance?
What are your health and fitness goals? How long would you like to live? How would you like to feel and what would you like to be able to do in your old age?
Is there a particular aspect of your spiritual life that you’d like to dive deeper into?
Jot down anything you’d like to develop in your life.
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<aside> 🍅 How do You want to contribute?
Lastly, think about all the various ways in which you want to contribute to the world.
As Vishen puts it: no matter how shitty your life might be, when you think about giving back, this is one of the surest ways to happiness.
How could you contribute to your family, friends, society, city, or even the entire planet? No matter how big or small your ideas, write down everything that comes to you.
What will be your legacy? How will you make the world a slightly better place? Which problem would you like to solve for the planet and humanity?
It could be volunteering or giving your time to specific people. It could be a certain work you’d like to create. Anything you can think of that would be of benefit to others and the world we live in.
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<aside> 🍅 What do You want to experience?
In this section, you are asking yourself this question:
If time and money were no object and I did not have to seek anyone’s permission, what kinds of experiences would my soul crave?
Let’s apply this to the first four items in the Twelve Areas of Balance. Each of these four items relates to experiences:
1. Your love relationship. What does your ideal love relationship look like? Imagine it in all its facets: how you communicate, what you have in common, the activities you do together, what a day in your life together looks like, what holidays are like, what moral and ethical beliefs you share, what type of wild passionate sex you are having.
2. Your friendships. What experiences would you like to share with friends? Who are the friends you’d share these experiences with? What are your ideal friends like? Picture your social life in a perfect world—the people, the places, the conversation, the activities. What does the perfect weekend with your friends look like?
3. Your adventures. Spend a few minutes thinking about people who’ve had what you consider to be amazing adventures. What did they do? Where did they go? How do you define adventure? What places have you always wanted to see? What adventurous things have you always wanted to do? What kinds of adventures would make your soul sing?
4. Your environment. In this amazing life of yours, what would your home look like? What would it feel like to come back to this place? Describe your favorite room—what would be in this wonderful space? What would be the most heavenly bed you can imagine sleeping in? What kind of car would you drive if you could have any car you wanted? Now imagine the perfect workspace: Describe where you could do your best work. When you go out, what kinds of restaurants and hotels would you love to visit?
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<aside> 🍅 How do You want to grow?
When you watch how young children soak up information, you realize how deeply wired we are to learn and grow. Personal growth can and should happen throughout life, not just when we’re children. In this section, you’re essentially asking yourself:
In order to have the experiences above, how do I have to grow? What sort of man or woman do I need to evolve into?
Notice how this question ties to the previous one? Now, consider these four categories from the Twelve Areas of Balance:
5. Your health and fitness. Describe how you want to feel and look every day. What about five, ten, or twenty years from now? What eating and fitness systems would you like to have? What health or fitness systems would you like to explore, not because you think you ought to but because you’re curious and want to? Are there fitness goals you’d like to achieve purely for the thrill of knowing you accomplished them (whether it’s hiking a mountain, learning to tap dance, or getting in a routine of going to the gym)?
6. Your intellectual life. What do you need to learn in order to have the experiences you listed above? What would you love to learn? What books and movies would stretch your mind and tastes? What kinds of art, music, or theater would you like to know more about? Are there languages you want to master? Remember to focus on end goals—choosing learning opportunities where the joy is in the learning itself, and the learning is not merely a means to an end, such as a diploma.
7. Your skills. What skills would help you thrive at your job and would you enjoy mastering? If you’d love to switch gears professionally, what skills would it take to do that? What are some skills you want to learn just for fun? What would make you happy and proud to know how to do? If you could go back to school to learn anything you wanted just for the joy of it, what would that be?
8. Your spiritual life. Where are you now spiritually, and where would you like to be? Would you like to move deeper into the spiritual practice you already have or try out others? What is your highest aspiration for your spiritual practice? Would you like to learn things like lucid dreaming, deep states of meditation, or ways to overcome fear, worry, or stress?
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Sources:
Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Goals That You’ll Actually Achieve (nextbigideaclub.com)