Question

Thinking about fundamental objectives and means objectives is relatively easy when the decision context is narrow (buying a telescope, renting an apartment, choosing a restaurant for dinner). But, when you start thinking about your strategic objectives -- objectives in the context of what you choose to do with your life or your career -- the process becomes more difficult. Spend some time thinking about your fundamental strategic objectives. What do you want t accomplish in your life or your career? Why are these objectives important?

Try to create a fundamental objectives hierarchy and a means objective network for yourself. Obviously this will change over time and as your career and personal situation changes, but, it is an interesting exercise to undertake.

Answer 1

Life never stops at one point, whether you win or learn, it is a journey. we come across many people, many situations, many locations and so on during the journey. when i was in college, my ambition was that I need to settle in a good job which paid me highest salary, with it i need to settle in life with a beautiful wife and probably with two children. for that only i have completed my masters degree with distinction.

my strategic objectives were:

• settled in career in a good job which provides high salary
• settled in personal life with a beautiful lady and having two children
• having a flat with all state of the art facilities
• maintaning huge bank balance, i should spend countless
• i do not suffer or strugle in my olden days and end my life with more satisfaction

but when it comes to reality, it becomes me very difficult to define a good job, and my confusion is that, a good job is the one:

• whcih paid high salary
• which carries higher power and authority
• which provide me higher satisfaction
• or any other prospects must be considered

that is the state of confusion in my professional life. But my personal life also carries with similar confusions, where my better half have her own targets and goals. One of the goal is till she settled in career, she do not interested in children, she started her career very recently.

So, I understood that, at every stage of life one should compromise upto some extent, otherwise it will be difficult to survive. sacrifice for the good reason, for the sake of our own people, gives most happiness than winning something.

most of the decisions were taken individually in my early life, and i was most succesful at that time. but now, the decisions what ever they are, must consult with my partner and taking. i was more aggressive and accurate in early days, but now i ma more traditional with fear and confined to my family in these days. once my wife enters into my life, i started to sacrificing something for her. I realized that if my child comes, I need to sacrifice more for the sake of those. Then i may get a question that, do i need to work for the sake of me or my family or for the sake of society etc.

Any way the thing I understood that, the more we knowledge and desired, we are more confused and stressed.

Thanks for given this opportunity to share my views and experiences in my life.