Some people have multiple goals which are misaligned or contradict each other. They want to go to the movie, but they don’t want to go alone. They want to have a relationship but they don’t want to sacrifice anything. They want to earn money, but they don’t want to work. They want to lose weight, but they don’t want to exercise or give up eating high calorie foods. They want to be educated, but don’t want to study. People who are misaligned will create confusion in their lives; the confusion becomes so overwhelming that they do nothing. The end result of misalignment is limited achievement, limited success, poor health and unhappiness.

One of the first things a person must do to achieve happiness is to determine his or her life goals.

1. What do you want to achieve in the next year?

2. What do you want to own by the end of next year?

3.What would you like to be able to do by the end of next year?

4. What excites you most?

5. What would you have to become to do what you want?

6. Where would you like to be 2 years from now?

7. Where would you like to be 5 years from now?

8 Where would you like to be 10 years from now?

9. Where would you like to be 20 years from now?

11. What goals have you given up?

12. What would you really like to do?

13. If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you attempt?

14. When are you happiest?

15. What do the people you most admire do?

16. What were your goals when you were younger?

17. What would you like to do just for the heck of it?

18. What do you consider its too late to start on?