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And they must be measurable. We must be able to see we are making

progress toward achieving our goals. If we have no idea if we’re getting
close to reaching our goals or not, we may even come to think we are

not even on the right road. They will not be motivating to us.

We must be able to evaluate and ‘size our goals up,’ to decide if they

are worth our time and effort or not. And like a road with mileage
markers, we must have an indication of where we are not the road that

we believe is the right road.

We must take time to look ahead to keep our goals in focus and so we

know we’re on the right track. Plus we must take time to look behind us
to see how far we’ve come, and that we’ve made some progress.

A Job to Do vs. a Joy to Live

If we don’t follow these simple things when we begin our goals, then

life is simply a JOB to do, and it becomes mundane and we lose focus,
drive and motivation.

But if we do follow these simple things, life becomes more of a JOY to
live. We know we are advancing, progressing and doing something with

our lives that is important to us or to others like an employer.

Know, Feel, Be

We can KNOW something is the right thing to do, but will we do it? We
will if it’s on a high enough scale with us and we FEEL like doing it. But

of course this takes into consideration other things that are important
to us and require our attention. Then we must rank them.

Lastly is us to BE – to become one with our task. Is it really important

enough to us to join our whole self to it, or just part of us? There are
various things in our life that at least require our consideration:

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