Goals and Happiness

Graduation day is a week and a half away, and I am so excited I can barely stand it! Work and my classes this semester have stretched me to my limit and beyond. I guess that's the only way we grow, is to push past our comfort level and keep on pushing!

Last weekend I felt like I jammed about a month and a half into one weekend. I do have this nagging feeling in the back of my mind, though, that I will have to sleep for that month-and-a-half to recover from it. =)

I'm almost ready to submit my Business Plan for my Entrepreneurship class, and I'm so excited to have finished it! Even more, I think it is a document that will actually be useful for Dana's business, if he wants to use it.

And now to my purpose on this post...

One of the reasons people remain unhappy is that they don't know what will make them fulfilled. We each need to create our own personal plan or blueprint for happiness. When we make goals, or lists of things we want to see happen in our lives, how and when we want to accomplish these things, we can get places we never could otherwise. This really is the key for achieving our dreams, and no dream is too big!

Robert Louis Stevenson said, "An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself." Only we can decide what will make us happy. When we decide, setting and achieving those goals truly make for a happy life.

I heard somewhere that if we take the time to write a goal, we have an 85 percent chance of achieving that goal. That is HUGE!

Regarding my school plan, I had not completed an actual, written goal and a plan to achieve it until 2007. Until I actually completed a schedule, semester-by-semester, I didn't have the key to move beyond the moment. Fitzhugh Dodson said, "Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination." I think I was like that ship. I did have a goal, but no plan to reach it.

I am so pleased to have planned, worked, and achieved this goal!! For those of you who have helped me through the process - family, friends, teachers - I can't thank you enough!