help, too many goals...

[ultimate]

... Not enough time, too much stress, too much to learn

[Angela]

Who is driving the bus?

[ultimate]

someone who needs to get better at doing things

[ultimate]

I probably should get out of my line of work as I am not passionate about it and instead take time oout to learn my passion and then teach my passion.

I would still need income tho from something

[ChrisGinsburg]

Goals just turn into clutter when you have too many of them. Keep your large encompassing goals in mind and allow them to guide you.

[MichaelAnthonyVet]

Just pick the goals that mean the most to you, and focus on those ones.

[CoolBee]

One thing you might try which I did with a client a few weeks ago and helped her enormously - identify a key milestone ahead of you - maybe 1 big goal that you really do want to achieve - whether it has a fixed date or whether there it is something that will make a big change in your life - eg starting a family, going to university, moving state whatever.

Then decide which other goals are best to be achieved before that, and which after. Eg if starting a family, obviously you may feel some things are best done before that, for example extensive travelling.

The find a space on the floor and walk out from now to say 10 years ahead.
Turn round and look back at now, and walk slowly back to the milestone event thinking of all the things to happen after that.
Stop at where you naturally feel the milestone should be. What age is that? Does it feel right and comfortable?
Then walk slowly back from that milestone to Now thinking through all the goals you want to achieve in that time.
How does it feel? How might you prioritize things?

You can do it a few times as you iron things out.

[svrart]

Hi,

Like others have said - cut back. We live in a society where everything is too much - too much food, too much noise, too much activity ....

I am an artist and a software teacher and both of these require a ton of things. So slowly I am being forced to admit to myself which of the two is more important.

Good luck and keep your spirits up!
SVR

[ultimate]

Thanks all - will try those out.
One thing I did just do was create a vision board

The one I made was to help attract women into my life.
I made about 4 different ones and set it as the desktop image and to change every 5 minutes.

I just finished and looking at my desktop I feel a surge of positive energy

I really think this will help calm me down, focus and take positive action. If I have my goals right in front of me, they will always be on my mind so I hope I will take action

I will be making more for the other areas of my life too!

[Mounds]

Ultimate,

Did you ever consider the possibility that you are drunk with power?

A less powerful man would create hardly any goals. Powerless people have no ambition. If you were to put ambition on a bell curve, you'd find homeless people in the initial 5-10% and power alcoholics in the last 5-10%. Personally, I am a power alcoholic.

When a person is as powerful and resourceful as you and I are, we tend to get out of control. We create mad goals in order to challenge ourselves. A power alcoholic does not want to live a mundane life and will do anything to avoid it. I will continue to create goals until I am overwhelmed. Then I worry because I have too much to do. In effect, I am giving away my power. Normally, you'd give that power to someone else. In this case, I'm giving it away to the stress I create for myself.

What can we do about this issue? Redirect our power. Direct all that power at a single goal and disintegrate it with awesomeness. Then move onto the next one. Remember how people go from rags to riches? They keep applying themselves until they figure out what works.

Right now, your power is fermenting inside your mind, causing your mind to become intoxicated with possibility. Until you start putting that possibility into reality, you will forever be drunk with power. Read my "I want to find out what works" thread for more insights.

[MyEyeIsOpen]

Originally Posted by Mounds

Ultimate,

Did you ever consider the possibility that you are drunk with power?

A less powerful man would create hardly any goals. Powerless people have no ambition. If you were to put ambition on a bell curve, you'd find homeless people in the initial 5-10% and power alcoholics in the last 5-10%. Personally, I am a power alcoholic.

When a person is as powerful and resourceful as you and I are, we tend to get out of control. We create mad goals in order to challenge ourselves. A power alcoholic does not want to live a mundane life and will do anything to avoid it. I will continue to create goals until I am overwhelmed. Then I worry because I have too much to do. In effect, I am giving away my power. Normally, you'd give that power to someone else. In this case, I'm giving it away to the stress I create for myself.

What can we do about this issue? Redirect our power. Direct all that power at a single goal and disintegrate it with awesomeness. Then move onto the next one. Remember how people go from rags to riches? They keep applying themselves until they figure out what works.

Right now, your power is fermenting inside your mind, causing your mind to become intoxicated with possibility. Until you start putting that possibility into reality, you will forever be drunk with power. Read my "I want to find out what works" thread for more insights.

Listen to this guy.

[ultimate]

Im gonna listen

[Lauren]

Ultimate,
How will you figure out which of your goals are not relevant right now?
Are they written down somewhere?

When I have been in the spot you are in...I pull out a few sheets of blank paper and just start writing...to get the thoughts I have swirling around in my head and down on paper.

When I do that, the thoughts and ideas about those goals begin to really take shape...or they dont.
The goals that I struggle in writing out on paper help me to realize that maybe that goal is just not ready to be born yet!

That means that some goals will jump to the front of the line for me to work on, take action on ...and then, there are others that are still incubating.

Hope this helps.
Lauren