Goals

Jeffrey Caso

13 years ago

I have found myself reflecting a good amount lately on where I am in life and where I really want to be. Thankfully, I am happy with my situation as a whole. I have a great wife, fantastic kids, a rewarding career and too many hobbies to list. Reflection is a good thing. You examine your past and find ways to avoid reliving negative experiences while at the same time maximizing past positive experiences. It's really pretty simple.

Learn what makes your body as healthy as it can possibly be. We all want to grow old gracefully. It's important to me to eat right, exercise regularly and have a positive self image. Set some goals and make them happen. It may be an optimal weight or a low-fat diet. It may be simpler than that, maybe you just vow to drink more green tea to help your heart out. Goals don't have to be lofty or hard.

It's important to exercise both your body and your brain equally. Yes, work gives us plenty of mental exercise, but find something that interests you outside of work to stimulate your brain in a more relaxing way.

Consider what you can do at work to make the everyday grind less stressful. Set up new rules for the staff. They don't have to be harsh like no more cell phone use or personal phone calls. How about a morale building exercise like if you can collect from a delinquent account, resolve a certain insurance problem or save money on a particular high use product, then you buy everyone lunch or a new set of scrubs or let someone leave an hour early one day with pay? Set some goals along those lines and you will get some good old-fashioned competition going to make every day more fun and less stressful

Find out what you can do to help out your personal financial situation. This one is easy to figure out just hard to put into effect sometimes. Do you need to make a bigger contribution to your retirement account, pay off a debt or buy that stock you have been thinking about? Set a goal and give it your best shot to achieve it.

Discover what you can do to help out your family. Spend time with them and help solve any problems they have to make them happier and more content in life. Most of the time this is simple. Just spending quality time with them is enough. Turn off the computer and cell phone; it will do as much for you as it does for them.

Reflect on your past experiences now and then and set some achievable goals to make your life better. That includes your work life, your home life and your personal life. It's all about being content. That in itself is a great goal.