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Goals and Plans

Watching Mario Teguh in Metro TV irritates me a bit. Hehehe… Yeap. I saw this guy talking about “dream” on his show called “The Golden Ways”. It is not because he says something wrong about it. Well, probably there’s nothing wrong with it (at least if he puts it in a right context). But the concept that he talk about is merely just theoretical and less practical. For example, he encourages the audience to have dreams and try to achieve it. But, what then? How to implement it in daily life?

I watch this show with my parents and I said to them, “I am sure that I am a better motivational speaker than Mario Teguh.” Hahahaha…  I also talk about dreams and goals to my students. But, I try to make it as clear as possible and as practical as possible. I usually quote the words of Brian Tracy or Stephen Covey to motivate my students.

For example, when talking about goals, I asked my students to write down his goal and then I quote Brian Tracy, “A goal that is not hand written is merely a wish”. Then, I also explain that a goal can be anything. It doesn’t have to be a career achievement, amount of money, houses, or cars. It can be anything; such as goals about families, socials, knowledge, etc.

After having a goal set, what else should we do? We have to do the first thing first. Okay. First Thing First is the concept that I learn from Stephen Covey. In our daily life, we usually have some tasks to do. Stephen Covey differentiates these tasks into two entities; important task and urgent task. What is the definition of urgent? It’s easy. An urgent task is something that if we don’t accomplish it soon, then we will miss the moment. So, urgent is about time. For example, hanging up a phone is an urgent thing to do. If you don’t do it soon, you will miss it. Urgent and Important are different. So, what is the definition of important? Well…. An important task is a task that supports our goal. That’s why we need to write our goal down at the first time. By writing it down, we make it clear what is important to us. When we are dealing with our task in a daily basis, always try to remember the goal that we write. If the task helps us to accomplish our goal, then it is an important task. If it is not, then, it is not important and we can stop working on it.

Urgent task is easier to do because it is easier to see. Most people trapped on their urgent tasks and easily forget the important ones. Those people will never accomplish their goals. Important task is harder to do because it is harder to see. Sometimes, we even face difficulties on knowing what tasks are important. That’s why we need to have a clear goal. Always remember that every task that supports our goal is an important task, and so otherwise.

So… I think it is easy to remember. First, we have to differentiate a goal from a wish. The best way to do that is by writing our goal down. Second, remember that urgent task differs from important task. We have to focus on important task, not on an urgent one. And then, we have to be discipline on doing all of those important tasks that we have defined.

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