Life Shift - 3 Explore Your Desires

Some of us, in our background, have been taught "don't ask for to much" as maybe others thought they were helping us "not to be greedy" when it came to expectations. Modern life now teaches the importance of pursuing personal, health and professional desires and goals in athletic endeavors, business culture, and even recreational hobbies.  

People are now more than ever, willing, and eager to set realistic goals for themselves as means to focus their energy and visualize the goals and rewards they seek to obtain. Exploring deep desires frees you to dream of possibilities while helping you visualize the steps needed to fulfill those heart-felt longings.

Dr. Marilyn Price-Mitchell (2018) reviews how written goals provide a road map by which employees can measure their efforts and see how they contribute to the success of the company. Her research highlights evidence indicating goal setters see future possibilities clearer and the bigger picture for staying on task.  

Dr. Gail Matthews (2015) also shows in her research how people who wrote down their goals had a 33% higher success rate compared to those who just formulated outcomes in their heads. Locke and Lathan (2006) demonstrate that putting your desires into clear, measurable goal statements improves people's confidence, motivation, and autonomy for taking action to reach one's dreams.

When developing a strategy for applying the research on goal setting for your career, your home life, and your significant relationships, Dr. Price-Mitchell has simple suggestions. Her recommendations for businesses and parents alike include five action-oriented behaviors for building great resilient mindsets for pursuing goals. Her steps include: put goals in writing, self-commit, be specific, challenge for growing, and getting feedback and support for making things fun. And then it is time to celebrate the adventure of going after one's dreams and desires.

Explore your deepest desires today but more importantly...write them down in clear language for committing yourself to pursue your dreams. Your job is to find your destiny and then to do it with specific steps needed for allowing you to follow the steps necessary for goal realization. Do not get caught being a problem solver. Get comfortable with risk taking for energizing your commitment to change and shifting your life toward goal obtainment.