“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ~Mark Twain

How did you do with the inventory of your dreams?  Was it fun to write them down?  How were the timelines?  Did you find that most of your goals were many years away?  If so, then go back now and add some shorter term goals – goals that you can create in the next year or two.  Perhaps you found that most of your goals were things that you intended to complete in the near future – in this case go back and add some long term goals.  These long term goals are in some ways your mission – what you are really here to accomplish in your lifetime.

That is all that you need to do today – just go and make sure that you a good mix of short term goals (things that you intend to accomplish in the next year or so), medium term goals (three to five years for completion) and finally long term goals (five years to twenty years or more).  One last comment, if you aren’t excited by your goals, go back and rewrite them.  Your goals should excite you when you read them.  If they aren’t exciting, then you are not being honest with yourself about what you really want.

Till next time…Jack

“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it. Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work”? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work–not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.” ~Mark Twain