GOALS...GOALS EVERYWHERE!

As a software developer I think I should use some methods to reach my main target:

be more organized!

First of all, the most important thing I will do is...

...set my goals! 

And those goals should be visible every day...yeah I know! Everyone says you have to set goals what you later on can achieve. But what really helpful could be is that, after you set your goals, you should see it daily. Otherwise you lose your focus on your goals and because the big overload and disturbance what always toward you will come from everywhere will set a really different course in your life.

I can remember that at the university (uh it was really long time ago) I had a really hard exam what I had to pass. No fail were accepted... so, I set this goal: "I will have pass the exam!" I wrote this goal on some post-it and distributed in my apartment. I had a couple of months to learn and if I were home I saw this goal daily and many times (I still have one post-it from that time...gush).

So it does not matter where I were at home, I always had this positive and suggestive goal before my eyes and this put me on a path what avoided one of the typical student behavior. Many of them say

"I have much time to learn, let's do some other stuff, let's do fun!"

Then later on 2 days before the exam:

"Shit, I have now not too much time to learn, let's do a crash course!"

or:

"Oh I do not learn enough I think I don't go to the exam...let's try it in another time...let's do fun!"

The bad in this is only, that later in adult life this behavior could stay.

In my opinion setting a goal should be more informal and well defined but should be not too complicated.

My main problem is in this fast world to remember what is important and what is not for me. As a husband, father of two, a dog owner, a workaholic freelancer, owner of two companies, a gamer and a dreamer, it is not easy to stay focused and get the correct balance between these important subjects.

So, I will give a try and set goals and I will make it visible daily. I will set some goal categories:

My goals for the:

1. (next week...is this not too much?)
2. actual month
3. near future (6-12 Months)
4. far future (5-10 years)

Not more needed as this should be informal only as mentioned above. Just to know what should motivate me to do tasks.

Important are the steps what I will do to reach those goals.

...but I will share this with you in a different post.