IDENTIFYING THE GOALS

IDENTIFYING THE GOALS

In this age of fierce competition, it is imperative that you are well aware of your goals, aims and objectives, and priorities. Aimlessness, indecision, and procrastination are three big stumbling blocks in one's career in particular and life in general.  They reduce a person to a living organism, devoid of all higher and nobler qualities of head and heart. What is life without a definite and purposeful goal?

Success depends mainly upon identifying goals and their relentless pursuit, regardless of odds, pressures, and predicament. The choice of career is of crucial importance in one's life. It is a deciding factor that can make or mar your whole life. It is necessary that you make your choice at the earliest opportunity, that is, at the school level. Proper consultations, planning, deliberations etc. should be involved in deciding this issue. Choosing the right road and at the right moment is vital to success. You should determine your future profession with the utmost care, deliberation, reasoning and insight into your aptitude. Without aptitude, all efforts go waste. If you choose your future profession against your wishes and aptitude, you are sure to become a square peg in a round hole. Your ambitions and desires should match your abilities and aptitudes. Success in any practical or professional career depends in no small degree upon the aptitude and the enthusiasm with which it is adopted and pursued. Nobody can expect to excel in an activity if his heart is not there in it. 

You should also take into account your resources as well as aptitude while taking the crucial decision about the career. You should consult elders, teachers, expert counselors, and guides before selecting a profession. Whatever profession or career you choose, be careful to see that it suits your interest, desires, and aptitude. You cannot use your talents to the best account unless you choose the right road. You must know to what end you want to strive and struggle? To what goal are your steps directed towards? Unless there is a will, there cannot be a way. Where there is a part, you can turn it into a conflagration, with your efforts and perseverance. You have the will, the ability, and the aptitude for the particular career, a slight orientation and matching labour will lead you to the top. Let your career be in tune with your nature and aptitude. You should know the proper direction and the channels in which your energies want to flow and create a deluge of success and satisfaction. In choosing a career, you should follow your natural instinct and know well your strength and weakness in regard to that. 

This idea of identification of one's goal and the choice of a career is very beautifully illustrated and underlined by the famous poet Robert Frost in his poem. "The Road Not Taken". A person comes across several choices in his life cannot retrace his steps. Frost himself made his choice of a poetic career in preference to other worldly pursuits. 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry could not travel to both 

And be one traveler, long I stood.

And looked down one as far as I could

 To where it bent in the under growth.

Then took the other, as just as fair, 

And having perhaps the better claim, 

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves, no step had trodden black. 

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I 

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has make all the difference. 

A wrong choice always results in repentance, regret, and a sense of failure. This same idea has been again and so excellently expressed in the following two quotations.

"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction"

- Diet rich Bon Hoeffer 

"We have life undone those things which we ought to have done' and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us."

- Book of Common Player 

The choice is Your's 

Choose Right Road for You Own Success