by Ashok Kumar Gulla

Created on: August 21, 2010

Personal goals often fail if they lack commitment; they are against divine justice and based on self gratification, manipulative practices, greed and unbalanced lifestyles. These goals may succeed initially but only for a short duration. When personal goals are moving against the flow of life, it need extra efforts to make it succeed. Such personal goals face obstruction from own inner-self, other people and nature; they are bound to fail in the long run.

Each person has number of aspirations from life. At times, focus is on so many things, like wealth, professional growth, ideal relation, leisure, good health and love. We often find ourselves not accomplishing all that we aimed for. Some of the personal goals are mutually contradictory to accomplish. It has much to do with our selfish attitude and materialistic outlook. We are not able to prioritize in life, thereby losing focus towards accomplishing these goals.

The world has become too materialistic and we think in terms of power, wealth and superiority that hold behind qualities of love and affection in our hearts. We compete with each other for material benefits and comforts, unmindful of common benefits for all of us. In the present competitive environment, every body thinks of self interest. We always feel in competition with our friends, relatives and colleagues in exhibiting our wealth and success. If our peers or colleagues are materially well placed compared to us, it makes us feel dissatisfied with our possessions and growth. We envy other person’s success. In such a situation, whatever we have already possessed, in terms of material wealth or professional growth appears to be too little and we aspire for higher personal goals. We therefore set personal goals beyond our capability and see then fail.

Personal goals that are unrealistic are often difficult to succeed.  People who try to enjoy more and more of their possessions remain comfortable and derive a feeling of satisfaction. They set their goals based on need and capabilities. They feel committed to make it a success. However, there are people who aims for higher level of possessions and in the process feel dismayed when these aspirations are not fulfilled. This is the reason for personal goals to fail.

We look life in terms of success and failure, gain and loss, wealth and poverty and positive and negative situation. It does not work always like that. Wherever there is a success it will bring also failure, richness will bring also

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