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Understanding of Goal
There are lots of varying definitions and perceptions about what is a Goal. I wanted to share my understanding not so much about the perception of the word itself, but of my feeling for it. Experience has demonstrated that this feeling has shaped my life a great deal.
A goal is a conscious definition of the subject or state that I’m striving to achieve. For me, the most useful example to draw is as the horizon (the border between earth and sky), to which you’re going along the road. It’s there constantly in the field of vision, distinct objects peel off it and constantly approach me. If I don’t see something beyond the horizon then the visualisation of this object or idea plays a major role here. In this manner the goal possesses properties that are defined and complemented by details by moving towards it. More often than not one goal creates another as a result of received experience or feelings.
In daily work the goal always determines the result. The quality of the result depends on how precisely I define the desired object or actions. Consequently the first question that I ask myself at the beginning of any new project is: “What do you think the result will look like?” or “What does my client expect?” Subsequently I started to delve more deeply in the details and visualise all the key process and points which await along the road. It has been known that I sometimes lose the thread. Completely “unforeseen” things then happen, the reason for which in actual fact can be attributed to a lack of understanding and visualisation at one stage or another. It is very similar to a dream state – when I’m asleep I am not aware of what is happening.
The understanding of goals is similar to creating a to-do list. It’s impossible to create something without a foundation, basis and starting point from which everything begins. This point is man himself, as the total sum of skills, knowledge and faculties. In order to formulate the goal correctly all one needs is to simply think about it. A person’s thoughts are extremely flighty and are easily replaced by others suddenly. This formulization also includes emotional sensations and visualisation. For example, you can think about a beautiful sunset – this is simply a thought, but you can really feel it and have a real impression.
If reaching a goal requires a significant amount of time it makes sense to record and utter it. Sound and vision provide the brain with a lot of useful information and is a very good form of support which is worth making use of.
Bearing the horizon in mind I always try to start acting on formulization, transforming it into a living process. Even results and their flavour that are insignificant in comparison with the goal as a whole are capable of really helping you to see the next steps.
Accordingly when understanding goals one should rely on real opportunities and features not restricted just to mental perceptions, including feelings, as well as not forgetting that formulization is like the goal itself a process in time, and not a statistical image in your head.
To-do list
A ‘to-do’ list is quite a useful thing. I acknowledge myself that I carry one when all tasks accumulate, but this is a lot. Аnd beside, it is one of the things that helps our brain complete planned tasks at the necessary time and in the right order.
Why does this happen?
Practically any idea that appears in my head begins from a thought which gradually, if I retain in my memory, becomes overgrown with new similar thoughts like a snowball into an idea, complemented by different shapes and pictures from reality. But all this is still sitting in my head, i.e. it is guarded by an internal keeper of information – my memory. This same memory is constantly bombarded with new information from within, by our new thoughts, but more often than not from outside – by other thoughts, impressions, as well as by other ‘rubbish’ that we imbibe with our eyes and ears everyday on the way to work, watching TV, listening to the radio and so on. Therefore, if your don’t focus your attention on certain important thoughts or ideas they risk being submerged under a heap of ‘rubbish’ or sent to a hidden compartment because of its purported lack of importance.
However it is worth not forgetting that the brain also receives information from external sources. So, things that you have seen or heard can serve as confirmation or supplementation to the information stored in our memory in the form of an idea. If I can’t find a supporting confirmation of one idea or other right away I can at least write about what I have thought. As a rule, this is a simple selection of theses, this same ‘to-do list,’ but it is sufficient for different, deeper levels of memory to act.
The next stage is going through the list and replenishing it with new information. Once I have done something I start getting impressions from the actions (or emotional experiences). That is how I complete and renew my to-do list.
In the final analysis the composite of impressions, intellectual knowledge and physical sensations form practical experience for which under certain circumstances it doubtless counts as “knowledge.”
