Know where you are going

Knowing where you are going with your business has a lot to do with your personal life. I love working with scenarios, so I will walk you through one scenario. I don’t know what to do for the week, and analyzing it shows that the team and I have not gone through the weekly process. I spent hours pointing finger somewhere else, until the team leader asks a simple question – “where were you during the weekend?”

My response was, “I could not finish working on assignments from previous week until around 8pm on Sunday”, and I instantly stopped pointing finger. The solution popped into my head. I need a framework surrounding around the solution, so planned for the week. This plan set an organized week, so we’d know what to do within the week.

The best and most supportive path in life is not just what we see, but also our framework. As a person, an independent perspective tells you what to do. In a day to day framework, you will traditionally wake up earlier to prepare for your day. You know how you want your day to go. It is a procedure that people normally goes through. The best place to find where you are going is within yourself. What you want and where.

A lot of things might weigh you down on a daily basis, which affect our perspective on where we are going. A problem puts us in the state of weighing us down, we will be directed by what is weighing us down. Many things could be weighing people down, but people that knows where they are going, consider the requirements and specifications for getting there.

SMART-method clarifies that the goal set as specific as possible. But, the main thing is knowing what we will get from what we are doing, we have the focus and motivation to move ahead with the overall process. In the case of our example, we want to get the best productive week, and the only way to do that is to use the right method and consume the effort required to build the plan.

The plan serves as a tool to direct the week, and know what to do. Knowing the path enlightens where to focus to get to the destination. We want something specific, which means we know what we want from it, giving us the best productive path to a result. We want the best solution, and we cannot get it until we know where we are going.

Knowing where we are going makes life easy and directs us to the best action to move forward. This is due to the fact that our destination is not long, but have many stops (places we will need to stop). We cannot dwell in the stops, because our destination is our motivation. Where we are going is the reward we get after we reach there. Yogi Berra says it best, “If you don’t know where you are going. You will end up somewhere else”, which shed some light about where you are going.

We’d have the need for acknowledging our destination. What you get is your motivation that boosts you. If you leave your house, you will know where you are going, right? It could be going to the store, office or anywhere else. But, you left your house for a specific destination – same thing goes with your life. Don’t lose that focus, because it might come back to hurt you. In conclusion, where we are going drives us, and when we get there, we reap our rewards.