The most valuable goals can be the hardest to identify. Deciding what you want to have, a new car, a new computer, a new game, a new set of double sabers, a ripe tomato isn’t too hard for most people. For almost everyone it is easy peasy to come up with a few things they want. Even the most well equipped people have ideas about the next new gear they need to put on their Sprinter Van.
Figuring out what you want to do during the year isn’t too hard for most people either. Planning to do your favorite activities, visit a friend or family member, maybe even travel, take a road trip, hop on a plane, go to school, get a new job. Most people have plenty of things they want to do.
It isn’t hard to think of things we like and want to do. Even including education or work goals. Beginning or completing a degree or a training course, or getting promoted, these are relatively easy to target and state. All of these goals around having new things and doing new things are also easy to know or measure objectively if you have achieved them.
However, thinking about who we want to be or become is far more challenging in terms of our personal character. As the world changes, the person we were in the past may no longer be the person we want or need to be in the present or the future. To think about ourselves deeply we need to spend some time calming down from the rush of events in our lives and look at not only what we have and what we are doing, but also who we are being and becoming.
For most goals creating a work flow or a play flow will create the correct chain of events to lead you to doing and having what you want and need. Creating new goals around being a new person is far more challenging.
We can allow the events of the world and our own and everyone else’s reactions to those events to steer us like a raging river steers a desperate person clinging to a raft. Or we can look at ourselves and think about who we are and who we can become. To answer these questions requires honesty and self-reflection.
How could you improve yourself as a person that will make it easier for you to do and have what you dream of in 2023 and beyond?
For most goals creating a work flow or a play flow will create the correct chain of events to lead you to doing and having what you want and need. Creating new goals around being a new person is far more challenging.
We can allow the events of the world and our own and everyone else’s reactions to those events to steer us like a raging river steers a desperate person clinging to a raft. Or we can look at ourselves and think about who we are and who we can become. To answer these questions requires honesty and self-reflection.
How could you improve yourself as a person that will make it easier for you to do and have what you dream of in 2023 and beyond?
For many, this process began during the pandemic when some, maybe even many people had some real time off and is ongoing as we emerge into a changed and changing world. For many, many people the last few years have been ones of massive change and as a result many people are reinventing themselves and their lives.
I encourage you to think about who you want to become and what qualities you want to nurture, cultivate, and grow in 2023. Think about how if you embodied those qualities of personality and character it would impact everyone around you in a positive way. Think about the qualities that would help you to be an even more positive and inspiring person, a more beneficial person for everyone in your life to be with and summon your intention and will power to make it happen. If you do, I think you are creating a fantastic year of growth, change, and prosperity for yourself in 2023!
You can be it!