Achieving goals

Came across a beautiful thought this morning that read:

“What I get in achieving my goal is insignificant to what I become in achieving my goal”.

We all aspire for career growth, personal growth, prosperity, fame etc. As we gradually progress in life, we do achieve the most of our goals, if not all through sheer hard work and meticulous career planning. But isn’t it true that our focus is mainly on material gains that we get by achieving this goals? Every promotion  is celebrated in anticipation of the incremental financial and positional gains that we get as an outcome. But the truth is that along with positional elevation and financial gains, we also get higher responsibility and an opportunity to contribute more – to the organisational growth, development of team members, taking care of the career and growth aspirations of the team members, mentoring the bright youngsters, disseminating knowledge acquired over a period of time with others etc. Similarly, while sense of personal satisfaction, enhancement in social status, improvement in living standard are a few of the direct benefits of achieving personal goals, we could use this opportunity by undertaking some philanthropic activity like teaching street kids, sponsoring an orphan, donations to our alma maters  or institutions like Tata Cancer Hospital, undertaking a tree plantation or beach cleaning drives etc. 

Achievement of our goals gets us many things, but the important point is whether it also leads to any transformation or change to our personal and professional selves to become a better human and a citizen? 

These days all HR and management workshops exhort the participants about larger purpose, which the aforementioned thought enshrines beautifully in few words.

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