This is a reminder to pause and take stock of your current long term objectives. What do you want to accomplish? Are your goals intelligent? Are you laser focused on them?
When setting long-term objectives, it is crucial to ensure that your goals are intelligent, focused, and aligned with your aspirations. Borrowing from the business world, intelligent goal setting involves creating goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. This approach known as SMART, helps in defining clear objectives, tracking progress, and ensuring that your goals are realistic and timely. By regularly reviewing and revising your goals, you can enhance your development, maintain focus, and work towards achieving your long-term vision effectively[1][2][3].
This does not, however, consider the wisdom of each goal you have set. The intelligence with which people work at solving goals may or may not have been employed in selecting those goals in the first place.
How do you choose wise goals in life?
It is essential to consider the wisdom of goals you set. Wise goals encompass aligning with your values, long-term vision, and personal growth. When selecting wise goals, it is crucial to reflect on their significance, impact on your overall well-being, and alignment with your core values and aspirations. Wise goals should contribute to your personal development, fulfillment, and happiness, guiding you towards a purposeful and meaningful life. By integrating wisdom into goal setting, you can ensure that your objectives resonate deeply with who you are and where you want to go in life.
Example from Xeno
* Overall Life Goal: To live a long, health, happy, fulfilling life, providing some big and meaningful service to the most intelligent compassionate lifeforms which might exist in the universe, be they future humans or other.
* Skills: I can write and edit, make web pages, reason, and write songs (sing, play insturments and produce) to hopefully entertain and educate.
Using an assessment of your available resources and skills and your overall life goal, you can set current goals. Here are two examples.
- GOAL 1: My 5 Year Mission: A collection of one hundred+ original songs with details of the best human inventions, insights and discoveries incorporated into a historical science fiction musical telling the story of human survival to the end of the universe.
- GOAL 2: Xeno’s Library: As support to the songs, create a large curated collection of pdf and other documents useful for a future civilization to reboot in the event of a mass destruction event. Give it an artificial intelligence component.
Take time to name the obstacles you have faced and expect to face again. Do not worrry about them, just name them. This will give your subconscious mind a reminder and solutions will be worked on in the background as you focus on the tasks to accomplish your goals.
* Foibles/Distractions: Obsessive work on one thing. Need for down time. Need to stop to pay the bills. Assorted time wasters. Trolls. Other people’s agendas. Health challenges. The need to eat and sleep. Natural aging. A desire in my cultural time to fight deception and control freaks and to promote Democracy and the free sharing of ideas.
It all boils down to: what to do today? The answer in this example case, is to work daily at goals while balancing health and other life responsibilities while avoiding distractions.
Citations
[1] https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/with-goals-fast-beats-smart/
[2] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/how-to-write-smart-goals
[3] https://www.ucop.edu/local-human-resources/_files/performance-appraisal/How%20to%20write%20SMART%20Goals%20v2.pdf
[4] https://www.insperity.com/blog/get-smart-how-to-help-employees-write-more-effective-performance-goals/
[5] https://www.linkedin.com/advice/1/how-can-you-effectively-review-revise-your-smart
