Objectives

On to the meat of it. Your goals will define what your day-to-day life looks like, they deserve proper consideration.

Do you enjoy your current job? Does it fit you? Do you have a change of career in mind? Career and finances will impact many aspects of life, so does where you live. Would you prefer to move to a small village or a bustling city? One change may lead to another and so on.

In many words or few: what about your life can you change, modify, improve? What do you want to change?

What would you like to change about your job?

What would you like to change about your health?

About your daily routine?

About your artistic ambitions?

About your living conditions?

What are your current objectives, and are you putting in the proper efforts to achieve them?

What are the little things you’d like to try out, even if just once?

Take a piece of paper, write down what your current goals are, big or small. Include everything about hobbies, work, love and social life, go wide and vast. Also write down the curiosities, the things you’d like to try out or get good at but never took the time to or never seriously considered.

Include them all, the objectives you have but don’t believe you can reach, the objectives you’d rather not have at all.

Give it some days, you might come across an idea in your daily life to note down too, even if it’s a mere curiosity that you’re unsure about.

Once a week or so has passed to think it over, bring out the list and have a good look at it. Highlight the goals that only brought you disappointment and that you’re no closer to achieving, consider if they need replacing with a realistic objective.

Realistic is an open category, mastering basket-weaving over ten years and trying out this niche hobby for one day to see if you like it are equally valid. In fact, I encourage you to do both. Because if that hobby isn’t interesting, then you know you’ve tried it out and can move on to attempting another one while still having the higher and bigger aim of becoming a virtuoso in the art of crafting baskets. Small and big goals, side by side.

Not everything needs to be a competition. Big objectives don’t have to have payouts like a new job or drastic life changes either. You can take it small and still be happy without a six-pack or massive bank account. Feel what pressure you can put on yourself, don’t overdo it.