The Seven Goals of Life
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They say "HARD WORK EQUALS SUCCESS." That if you are hardworking, you will be successful.
I don't believe!
I know of one egg vendor who truly was an exceptionally hard-working person. After ten years, he's still an egg vendor.
The equation should be: "HARD WORK PLUS GOAL equals SUCCESS."
If you don't have goals in life, you move about like a butterfly.
Butterflies fly so erratically you wonder where do they really want to go. They flutter up and down, left and right, to and fro—only to alight sometimes just near or even at the exact spot where they have taken off. I figured why didn't they just fly straight to where they wanted to go?
If you are that person who is yet so young, don't waste the very limited time God has given us. Know where you're going. Have goals!
And there are 'SEVEN GOALS OF LIFE!'
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The Seven Goals of Life - Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol
The Seven Goals of Life
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PREFACE
IF YOU YET WONDER OF MEANING OF LIFE,
it means you’ve none of worthwhile goals in life.
For if you’re so engrossed in pursuing,
you’ll find out getting them is the meaning.
WANT TO BE COUNTED AMONG HAPPIEST?
—Have goals and pursue them all in earnest.
Want to be counted among the saddest?
—Have no goals except to work, eat, and rest.
DON’T MOVE ABOUT IN LIFE SO UNKNOWING
of the very reason you’re existing.
For as long as you cannot define it,
yours a moving body without spirit.
WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE GOALS, YOU MOVE BY INSTINCT
—like chicken changing courses in a wink.
When you have goals, before you move you think
—dropping those things to your goals have no link.
CAN YOU PLAY BASKETBALL WITHOUT A RING?
That’s what goes when without aims we’re moving.
If a bird is not a bird sans its limbs,
man is not man without his goals and dreams.
DO SET YOUR GOAL—TO MOVE WITH CLARITY.
Set a goal—that suits your ability.
Raise the goal—with your rising energy.
Always move with goal—lest you move slowly!
THEY SAY: HARD WORK IS EQUAL TO SUCCESS.
But I’ve seen many whose life is a mess.
I say: Hard work plus goal equals success.
Take out the goal, hard work brings nothingness.
THE JUDGE OF ALL THINGS YOU DID IN THE PAST
is where and how you’re now in this world vast.
The judge of all things you are doing now
is when far days come, where and how art thou?
LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE WITH LIBERATING GOALS;
stop wishing wishes, start pursuing goals.
If the lights of your goals and dreams are off,
there’s no happiness to even speak of.
WHEN YOU HAVE A GOAL AND YOU LOVE YOUR GOAL,
there’s none in life that can dampen your soul.
Everything that sucks gets tolerable,
all because of wanting to reach your goal.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hard Work Plus Goal Equals Success
The First Goal Of Life: The Family Goal
The Second Goal Of Life: The Career Goal
The Third Goal Of Life: The Financial Goal
The Fourth Goal Of Life: The Health Goal
The Fifth Goal Of Life: The Mission Goal
The Sixth Goal Of Life: The Self-fulfillment Goal
The Seventh Goal Of Life: The Spiritual Goal
Does God Really Exist?
Pondering On The Seven Goals Of Life
Hard Work Plus
Goal
Equals Success
The FORMULA
They say HARD WORK EQUALS SUCCESS.
That if you are hardworking, you will be successful. I don’t believe!
I know of one egg vendor who truly was an exceptionally hard-working person. After ten years, he’s still an egg vendor.
We once had a laundry woman who used to come to us once a week to do our laundry. She gets paid by the day. Now, give her a tall heap of laundry to wash. By afternoon, you will see all clothes hanging up to dry—all smelling fresh and clean. This woman was one hell of a hard-working and efficient person. After some ten years, though, she is still a laundry woman, and is even under stern warning from her landlord to pay her past due rent lest she be evicted. It looks like her life did even take a turn for the worse!
You, too, might be hard-working, but still you may not succeed!
Why don’t I believe that hard work can lead to success? Because the formula—HARD WORK EQUALS SUCCESS
—is wrong!
The equation should be: HARD WORK PLUS GOAL equals SUCCESS.
You see me running and you call out, "Rudy, you’re running so fast! Where are you going?" And I answer, I don’t know!
Hard work has no meaning if it is not geared towards a specific goal.
It’s like a ship that capsizes in the middle of the sea. You are one of those on board. And so you swim and swim and swim. Little do you know, the more you swim, the more you head for the middle of the sea. This is because in the middle of the sea, all you can see are sky and water. After a while though, as you strain your eyes, you see something like an island on the horizon. Now your swimming has meaning!
If you don’t have GOALS IN LIFE, you move about like a BUTTERFLY.
Butterflies fly so erratically you wonder where do they really want to go. They flutter up and down, left and right, to and fro—only to alight sometimes just near or even at the exact spot where they have taken off. I figured why didn’t they just fly straight to where they wanted to go? Why yet the fluttering up and down, left and right, to and fro—seemingly not knowing where to go?
People without goals are the same. You can see them everywhere—seemingly not knowing where to go. They always say YES; they never say NO.
"Come, let’s take a walk.—
Yes."
"Come, let’s see a movie.—
Yes."
"Come, let’s eat out.—
Yes."
"Come, let’s have a drink.—
Yes."
"Come, let’s do drugs.—
Yes."
They are so easy to be seduced. Why? They don’t know where to go—any place will do. They’re like playing basketball, dribbling and dribbling but—without a ring.
I was that person—a BUTTERFLY!
In my younger days, I did move about in life like a butterfly. No goals in life. My first job was with a foreign bank. Excellent pay! Where did all my money go? To women! I was a regular customer at first-class motels and massage parlors. I smoked and drank. At age 35 I was still single. Marriage? No way! Being a bachelor was so fun, why marry? I didn’t think of saving any money either. Why should I—I didn’t have goals, right? This went on until one day I banged my head on the wall, so to speak, and came around. How did it happen?
When I was already starting my training and consultancy business at age 35, I began to notice that the seminar-participants were addressing me as ‘Mang Rudy’ and with an ‘opo.’ [‘Mang’ and ‘Opo’ in our vernacular are terms of respect used when speaking or answering some elderly persons or persons of rank.]
I thought I must be already looking old for them to address me as such. I looked in the mirror, "Oh, goodness me! I’m old, indeed. I have already lots of gray hair on my head. And yet until now I still don’t know where I am going. No direction!"
I sat down and did some soul-searching. "What really is my goal in life? . . . What do I really want in life? . . . Where do I really want to go?"
When I stood up, I already knew what I wanted in life. I already had goals! Then I said to myself, "What a waste! I should have known about these when I was still new with the bank. Had I, I would have had a house and lot by now. And a very big house and lot at that!"
And so, on that very same year that I came to, I settled down. The following year, I had a child. The following year again, another child. [Unfortunately, the second pregnancy was an ectopic one, necessitating the fetus to be removed.] I was rushing like hell!
Hence, when at times the boys in the seminar would invite me, "Sir, can we have a few drinks after the seminar?—my always ready answer was,
Sorry, but can we do it some other time? Why do I often decline? I was thinking while I was drinking, I would be hit with a thought that—
There’s nothing I will get from this drinking. There are far more important things to do than this."
It’s a good thing I came to when I was still 35. What if I was already 65 or 70?
If you are that person who is yet so young, don’t ever think of doing what I have done. You will regret it. Don’t waste the very limited time God has given us. Know where you’re going. Have goals!
And there are ‘SEVEN GOALS OF LIFE!’
The First Goal of Life:
The Family Goal
1. Stop FOOLING around!
I know of someone who used to sleep with one woman after another until one day he impregnated one. The father of the girl said, "Marry my daughter!" Actually, the young man had a longtime girlfriend whom he was planning to marry. But there he was. Hardly had the marriage started when it was already a failure!
‘Perhaps’ there really ought to be a divorce after all, for there are so many marriages that started out on the wrong foot that it seems the only way to correct it is through a divorce. I wonder if marriage be reserved for mature people only.
I suggest you consider well the person you will marry. For I believe, it is better not to have married at all than to have gotten married to a wrong person.
2. In choosing or looking for a LIFETIME PARTNER, consider well COMPATIBILITY more than