Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Can we always tweak things to make them better? Is it possible to continually improve? At some point in life, our goal might get to be being able to do on Tuesday what we could do on Monday. How do we measure our life? Did we wring all of the joy out of life and all of the opportunities; did we do all the good deeds and help as many people as we could?
We realize how efficient and effective we can make our time when we are planning a trip. How much can we pack into a week, ten days, or a month? The longer we take to plan our trip the more we think of what to do, see, and experience. Sometimes we need a rest at the end of our trip because we were so busy doing what there was to do, and seeing what there was to see. Even if we pack it as tight as possible, we won’t see and do everything.
What is the point between busy enough and relaxed enough? We don’t want to miss smelling the roses, but we need to plant them and tend them. There gets to be a point in life (I’m told) when traveling doesn’t have the appeal it once had, and some are telling me it comes sooner than we think it might. This is scary, my husband and I are getting to the stage where we might finally have some time to travel. Will we get to see the Seven Wonders of the World, wouldn’t that be a worthy goal? At Toastmasters my mentor’s goal is to see all seven of the world’s wonders. The new list was compiled in 2000 when a company based in Zurich Switzerland launched a campaign to name the New 7 Wonders. The seven wonders of the world on today’s list are:
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy, the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, India, Christ the Redeemer Statue, Brazil, Machu Picchu, Peru, Chichen Itza a Mayan city, Mexico, Petra, Jordan.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only wonder of the ancient world still standing.
The seven wonders of the natural world are:
The Northern Lights: Aurora Borealis,  Mount Everest, Paricutin volcano in Michoacán, Mexico, the Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls along the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, and the Great Barrier Reef.
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. Les Brown
We might not agree with the lists, but they are at least a starting point. It would take a lot of traveling to see everything. We should all make our own list of what we’d like to see and do in our lifetime. There are lists of places to go, things to see, and experiences to have. We must curate our own list, and make our own plans because we must live our own life. When I look at YouTubers putting their experiences out I think what a way to see the world and some are getting paid for it.
We all make choices about our lives, and we may look at other people’s choices and think why didn’t I think of that, but they are living their life and we are living ours. We can’t have someone else’s life, but can we make the best of our own is a question we should ask. How much of what we want can we get out of the next ten years? How much effort would it take to figure out what we want and go after it?
Do we need to ask ourselves what we want to accomplish in life? Do we need to let life unfold knowing we can’t know everything that is ahead and we have to be willing to go with the flow, but also we can direct that flow somewhat? Is there something deep down we want to see, experience, or do? Can we make it happen without disrupting the rest of our life?
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins
Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them. Jim Rohn
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. Tom Landry
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