Achieving Personal Aspirations: A Guide

How do you plan your goals?

Goal planning is a well defined process in the corporate world. Its annual cycle and religiously followed. Based on the yearly goals the performance assessment is carried out.

Let’s discuss here regarding personal goal planning.

Personal goal setting is the process of defining, planning, and achieving individual aspirations. It involves identifying what you want to achieve, creating a plan with specific steps, and then taking action to reach your goals. Effective goal setting can boost motivation, improve focus, and lead to personal growth and success. 

Google can give you step wise information regarding personal goal setting. I will share my own experience with goal planning and achieving it.

Personal Goals can be of two types, mainly Career Goals & Financial Goals. In this blog I would like to share with you how we achieved personal goals with proper planning and disciplined execution. It’s not my personal goals ! You guessed it right, my wife’s personal aspirations. Actually my wife always wanted to work and achieve professional growth.

It was a taboo that time (35 years ago) that the girl would not go out for working. Though it was not banned completely but it was not encouraged too. In the traditional houses like us, men will go out for working and girls or daughter in laws would take care of home. But my father was very much forward thinking person and he was head of family. He explained everyone in the family that he ( that means me ) does not have government job and industry job is uncertain hence his wife should work and support the family. My mother and other females at home reluctantly agreed.

Then me and my wife discussed in details about her aspirations or goals. She wanted to create her own identity and make use of her knowledge and talents.

Then we discussed about her interests and various opportunities available for her. Looking at the time required by a corporate job and the amount of work pressure involved we decided that she would choose a teachers profession. Later I realised that my wife had a passion of teaching.

Initially she joined a school as a Assistant Teacher, but without professional qualifications, she was paid very less salary. Further prospects were also low.

Then I suggested her to acquire professional qualification for becoming teacher. This is B.Ed ( Bachelor in Education) qualification in India and she took admission in a college abd studies for a year and passed with good marks. And this was done when my elder daughter was hardly six months old. It was testing time for all of us. But my family stood by us as a strong support.

After achieving the desired qualification we started job hunt. It was not so easy but hard to get the right job. Finally we got the job as a junior teacher in the primary section of a school in our city. Later she shifted to a renowned institution as a teacher.

Due to her hard work, perseverance, she is Principal of the popular school heading Primary & secondary section.

This is short story of setting and achieving the goals.

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