Life preferences. Human life values

We talked about the importance of life goals in a previous article about.

Today we will talk about examples of life goals, since people may have difficulty choosing them, and we will provide a list 50 life goals .

Most people have fairly similar goals in their lives. For example, everyone wants to be financially free and do what they love.

Traveling to other places on the planet is also quite a popular goal, but difficult to achieve for those people who have a low income.

However, you may not realize how much new you can achieve by setting a variety of goals and what skills you can master. Your potential is indeed very great.

Some goals can be achieved at home. Reaching others may require a lot of time and nerves, such as speaking in front of a large audience.

To achieve many goals, you need to have a certain capital, while achieving others will not cost you anything except your efforts and perseverance.

Some goals are more important and valuable than others. Some of them you can achieve in one day, while others may take your whole life to achieve. So here is a list of possible 50 goals for your life.

50 goals of human life

Break the world record
Become a manager, for example, of an Internet project
Start your own business (or non-profit organization)
Learn to speak a foreign language (with the help of a native speaker or on your own).
Create a website
Write and publish a book / Write a screenplay
Have a healthy child
See your child graduate from school (or university)
Pay off all debts
Save 100,000-500,000 or more. / Open a savings account and invest money monthly
Become a millionaire
Organize a meeting with your school friends
Improve your blood pressure/cholesterol/etc so you no longer need treatment
Learn to cook
Quit drinking alcohol / Quit smoking
Buy a house / Build your dream home (or log cabin in the mountains)
Learn some dance and dance regularly (alone or in pairs)
Master a martial art (such as Aikido)
Learn to drive a car
Learn to play guitar/piano/violin
Learn to play golf / scuba diving / snowboarding / water skiing
Lose weight by 5, 10, 20 kg
Complete your higher education / Become a candidate, doctor of science
and get married (or get married)
Make peace with your family
Celebrate your 25th/50th marriage anniversary
Find your dream job
Create a musical group / Play music. group
Visit the Holy Land / Hawaii / Ireland / Italy / London / Paris
Run a marathon
Celebrate New Year in another country and another city (for example, New York)
Go on a trip around the world
Become a confident computer user (or help your girlfriend or mother with this)
Wake up at 5:00 am every day of the week
Read the Bible from cover to cover
Replace all negative thoughts with positive ones
Exercise/ride a bike 3 times a week
Donate blood
Have at least a short conversation with a new person every 3 days (outside of work)
Interact with someone on a daily basis without meeting face to face (for example, over the Internet)
Do something you're afraid of every day (such as talking to someone)
Give a sincere compliment to someone every day / Help someone every day (even in a small way)
Learn to make money on the Internet
Make repairs (or general cleaning of the entire house)
Make a positive impact on someone's life so that they can achieve their goals
Write a letter to someone
Write down every day your most important things that must be completed by the end of the day / Keep your diary with entries regularly
Meet someone who changed the country or influenced the world (such as a president)
Learn to survive and live far from civilization
Live for a year in a foreign country
Write a treatise where you explain your beliefs
Write a list of 100 things that inspire you and bring you happiness
Get rid of the clutter in your life and do only what matters most.

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This is just a sample list of 50 life goals that you can review and get some ideas for yourself. This list can also motivate you to create your own and unique plan of goals and ways to achieve them.

You might also consider including a time frame for each case. Try to make all your goals measurable as much as possible, as this means there is a higher chance that they will be achieved.

What goals do you set for yourself? What is your list of 50 life goals?

Every day we are faced with the need to solve some problems and circumstances that constantly test our strength. And in today’s world of all kinds of worries and stress, our life values play a huge role, being a kind of pointers on the path of life.

If everything we say and do matches our expectations, life is correct and meaningful, and we ourselves are happy and confident. However, it often turns out that our actions are at odds with our deepest beliefs, which is the reason for irritability. And this is an indicator that something is wrong. In addition, such feelings can make us unhappy, and only when we always act according to our conscience will our self-esteem and state of happiness be maintained.

A person’s life values can be safely called his internal compass, against which it is necessary to compare all steps. After all, when there are certain attitudes, it is much easier for a person to think through actions and actions, which is the basis of a productive and fulfilling life.

But let's think about what could be our life values.

The article analyzes the life preferences of modern children and adolescents.

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Introduction

Sooner or later, each of us faces a question related to the search for the meaning of life. What is the meaning of life for each individual person? What needs to be done to make human life joyful and happy? What is the real value of life? How not to make mistakes in choosing your own values? Questions that require answers. Undoubtedly, no one will give us a ready answer; we find it ourselves, following the path of life.

Subject This article is devoted to the problem associated with identifying the psychological characteristics of the values of modern adolescents.

The relevance of the chosen topic is determined by the fact that: The age chosen for analysis is of enormous importance in the formation of personality, as well as its further development. Adolescence is a transitional stage from childhood to adulthood, where basic life principles and priorities related to professional choice, attitude towards family, society are laid, basic value preferences are laid, etc.

Values are beliefs shared in society (community) regarding the goals that people should strive for and the main means of achieving them. ( Yu. Volkov, I Mostovaya)

Analyzing the literature covering issues of life values, it was noticed that the formation of value orientations of schoolchildren is not fully covered in scientific works. This determined problem our research, related to the need to develop a theoretical and methodological framework aimed at implementing the principles of forming the life preferences of modern children in the context of school education. It should be noted that the problem is relevant due to global transformations in this area.

Object of study the values of modern teenagers were chosen.

Subject of study: identifying differences in the value system of modern adolescents in connection with gender and age characteristics.

Target research: determine differences in the content, structure, number of values of students, taking into account the age characteristics of schoolchildren, gender and education (grades 4-10) of the subjects through psycholinguistic analysis of the text.

Research objectives:

Study and analyze scientific psychological and pedagogical literature on the named topic;
Explore differences in the system of value preferences of modern adolescents;
Identify the characteristics of students’ values, taking into account their age, gender and education;

Research hypothesis are as follows:

Modern teenagers will have obvious differences in value orientations due to gender and age characteristics;

Theoretical basis of the study Philosophical and psychological aspects of personality theory, social development of personality (Ananyev, Rubinstein), theories of pedagogical and socio-pedagogical support and support for children (Sokolova), psychological characteristics of adolescence (Vygotsky, Bozhovich, Titova) served as the basis.

The following were used in the process of solving problems: methods: theoretical analysis, testing (methodology - Schwartz's value questionnaire), content analysis of the text, quantitative and qualitative data processing.

Empirical basis The study included: students in grades 4-10 of the Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution “Secondary School No. 2 of Suzdal”. Number – 158 people.

Novelty of the research can be defined as follows:

clarifying the understanding of the essence and content of value orientations of modern adolescents;
identifying the characteristics of value preferences for children of different ages;
establishing the characteristic psychological characteristics of written texts among school students, as well as identifying the level of relationship between value orientations and the quality of speech and the development of thought.

In modern science, the field of research is expanding in the interdisciplinary field - on the border of linguistics and psychology. The applied field for these two sciences is psycholinguistics, which develops issues of studying written text and creates methods for its psychological analysis. Among the most developed and tested psycholinguistic methods is the qualitative-quantitative method of content analysis.

Unique material of its kind for researching this topic are student essays on the topic: “What do I value in this life.” Based on content analysis, 10 semantic categories were identified:

Family
Life
Friendship/friends
Studies
Health
Universal human qualities (kindness, understanding, care, tolerance, love, etc.)
Motherland
beauty

To build a hierarchy of value orientations for schoolchildren of different ages (grades 4-10), we used a technique - the Schwartz value questionnaire (VQ).

The results obtained using the methods of S. Schwartz and content analysis are consistent with each other. In various groups of subjects, there is a predominance of the “family” value; it is this category that occupies the top part of the rating: “ I am V..Matvey was born in 2004. I am 10 years old. I study at secondary school No. 2, in 4th grade. For me, the most valuable thing in life is my family. In my family, I am taught to love, understand others, take care of loved ones, learn to forgive insults, although sometimes this can be very difficult to do, respect elders and be educated. My family will always support me in difficult times... My mother and grandmother teach me to be more tolerant and kind. I try not to upset them and am learning to be a good person, because my family definitely won’t teach me anything bad” (Matvey V., 4th grade) or 8th grade:« For me, the most valuable thing in this life is family. "Why?" - you ask. I will answer - “family for me is more than shelter and food, it gave me life, love, care! And continues to do so to this day. Some do not value life as everyone without exception should value it. I believe that there is probably no person who has only one value in life, this means I also have several” (Victoria G., 8th grade“having good and loyal friends”: “In this life I value family and friends. Friends play a big role in my life. They often help and help out. I have been friends with some since kindergarten, while others I met at school. We have a lot in common. We have experienced a lot, “great” plans for the future with them...” (Lina K., 9th grade), "life": “The most valuable thing is life. It is given only once. Living life is not a field to cross, so you need to live it in such a way that, looking back, looking back and analyzing the years you have lived, you can see your work and its significance. I believe that such an analysis should be done at different age stages, to re-evaluate something, change something, improve something” (Alina A., 10th grade), "health": “I value my health and the health of my loved ones. I try to take care of him” (Christina, 6th grade). Analysis of students’ creative works made it possible to establish that children of all ages have formed fundamental values for their future adult life. The rating indicators established that the lower part remains for such values as “security”, “conformity”, “traditions”; it should also be noted that the lower level also covers the values of self-exaltation (“power”, hedonism). Such results pose a problem in the value system of modern youth, since in their minds low importance is assigned to traditions, Motherland, culture, and beauty. Since the richness of the public life of the state recedes into the background, a pattern arises associated with paying due attention to the formation of the values of this category, which can still be formed and adjusted. The research conducted in different age groups made it possible to notice that the value system is not static, but has changes associated with the age of the subjects. Our research was based on students in grades 4-10, which means it is not too late to form and consolidate value orientations.

According to the Schwartz questionnaire, in terms of gender differences, the highest scores among female students are observed on the scale of universalism (73%) and achievement (73%), which allows us to judge the importance of understanding, tolerance and protection in life. Slightly lower in importance were values such as: conformity (66%) (based on restraint and prevention/inducement that could cause harm to others); kindness (60%) and independence (60%), which is based on the independence of choice and thinking of adolescents, actively manifesting itself in creativity and research activities.

Stimulation is a low value (26%), which clearly demonstrates a reluctance to dominate other people. Slightly higher are values such as tradition (33%) and hedonism (33%), but they are also of little significance in the lives of female students.

The distribution of values was different among male students, where universalism (86%) is the main value. Next in importance are achievement (73%), conformity (73%), independence (73%), which is directly related to the achievement of personal success and independence in choosing actions. Such priorities indicate that for men it is these life values that, in accordance with social standards, are the main and most important for them.

Safety (67%) and social stability are equally important to boys of all ages. Low rates were observed on the scales of stimulation (40%), kindness (47%), traditions (40%), hedonism (47%), which allows us to conclude that the male sex strives to increase and maintain the well-being of loved ones.

Power as one of the significant values - 60% speaks of the desire and desire to exercise dominance over resources and subjugation of people. All this is associated with acquiring a certain status and prestige in society, both among one’s peers and in other social groups.

Carrying out an analysis of age preferences of values, we can observe the following: for primary school age, it is important to show kindness, both in the family and from people around them, to be independent in one’s choices and actions. At an older age, the category “family” does not lose its relevance, where kindness, care, and tolerance are also valued, which means that with age, the values of “family” as a unit of society are more and more consciously laid down in the minds of adolescents. In addition, “achievement,” “independence,” and “safety” become important for students in grades 5–7. The category of “power” acquires special significance among 7th grade students, as a manifestation of adolescence and the opportunity for self-affirmation among peers. In no other age group is “power” the dominant component. For older schoolchildren, “stimulations,” “achievements,” and more and more questions related to the choice of a future profession are coming forward, which means raising the value of “study” as a possible prospect for realizing one’s life plans and taking a worthy place in society.

Returning to the problem posed - determining the value orientations of modern teenagers, we will draw the following conclusions:

Family,” “life,” “kindness,” “achievement,” and “independence” were the dominant values for the subjects. Such dominant values allow us to talk about the stable orientation of modern teenagers towards personal relationships, true love, sincere kindness, true friendship, which means that young people are on the right path and have strong inclinations for the formation of a humane, highly moral social consciousness.
Motivational types (according to Schwartz's concept should form complementary pairs) do not form pairs.
Those values that Schwartz refers to as expressing the interests of the group, namely values such as “tradition” and “conformity,” are presented as insignificant among students in grades 4-10.
Traditions,” “Motherland” are values that have at least some degree of significance only in individual cases; in the majority, they are of no interest to all age groups, which indicates an unformed or poorly formed civic-patriotic position. This problem raises a number of questions related to the formation and affirmation of civic identity: a sense of duty and responsibility to society, protection of one’s rights and interests, etc.

Conclusion

The results of the empirical study revealed differences in the choice of value orientations among a group of students of different ages. It should be noted that the formation of values in adolescents can also be carried out within the framework of educational activities.

Today, the education system is experiencing enormous changes associated with the transition of educational institutions to second-generation standards (FSES), which is based on a system-activity approach aimed at personal development based on universal learning activities (UAL). We propose to use competency-oriented tasks (COT) in lessons and extracurricular activities as methodological recommendations that form the educational curriculum. Tasks of this type have an educational and life justification; the most important thing is that the CGTs do not raise the unanswered question in a thinking student: “Why are we doing this?” An important component that influences the formation of the value system of modern teenagers within the framework of students’ educational and extracurricular activities is this type of work, such as a project. A project is a set of interrelated activities designed to achieve certain goals. From our point of view, it is advisable to use project activities in educational institutions (this form of work is increasingly entering the educational sphere and can become one of the forms of examination testing).

Project activities within the framework of the educational process help to shape the interests and inclinations of the individual to cognitive activity, develop creative abilities, develop aesthetic abilities, reveal the worldview, create motivation to achieve success, and also provide the opportunity to enrich the experience and self-realization of students in a particular activity.

These results show the presence of a patriotic, aesthetic, linguistic problem that takes place in modern sociocultural reality, since many modern teenagers do not see and do not want to see the beauty of the surrounding reality, do not appreciate its diversity, accordingly do not realize the significance of the Motherland and speaks of an underdeveloped sense of patriotism, which requires a pedagogical decision, first of all, regarding the content of the humanitarian disciplines of modern school education.

Annex 1

Competence-oriented task based on the novel by A.S. Pushkin “The Captain's Daughter”

Key competencies– informational, communicative.

Stimulus:

The lesson is over, but the argument continues. Your two classmates Artem and Vlad cannot resolve the dispute: can Pyotr Grinev be considered the hero of the work “The Captain’s Daughter” by A.S. Pushkin "minor." You decided to help them. But it turned out to be not so simple. To resolve the dispute, you turn to your literature teacher for help. The teacher, after listening to the disputing parties, advised everyone to re-read specific chapters of the novel and answer the following questions:

Who taught Petrusha and what?
What can and does Peter Grinev know?

By answering these questions, you will be able to reconcile your arguing classmates.

Problem formulation: in the novel by A.S. Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" touches upon the issue of the upbringing and education of Pyotr Grinev. Describe this question.

*What type of people would you consider yourself to be? Justify your answer and give reasons for it.

The use of KOZ on literature allows us to solve the following problems:

motivate children to carefully read the text and solve a moral problem that is relevant to them;
create conditions for thoughtful reading, when the truth is born in dialogue with the writer, dialogue with friends (if you organize work in pairs or groups), in dialogue with the teacher (when post-voluntary attention is turned on and a discussion arises), in dialogue with yourself (if the work has become revelation);
understand the level of development of subject and key competencies and see ways for their further improvement;
to form a moral person with established worldviews.

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Striving for a goal in life in itself is meaningless. It is important what the goal leads to, what values are brought to life. There are goals - dreams that everybody wants, and there is little benefit from achieving them. And even more so, there is no point in putting them on – they don’t motivate.

Look at this list of goals on the MYTH blog:

Such goals give rise to flawed motivation. You can’t set goals like that. You can get crazy when you reach them, or it’s not at all clear why someone needs them in the present tense.

The list of goals is typical, which is offered to blog readers. The authors, trying to give readers examples of long-term goals, give a set of loops. To strive for such goals without having anything behind them is an inquisition of the remnants of a healthy psyche.

Vital Goals

The goals that we set for ourselves should develop us, bring us experience, increased awareness and personal responsibility. And don’t send him to a mental hospital, intensive care unit or a cemetery.

Vital goals are those the pursuit of which will develop us. Expand our capabilities, increase our sense of happiness, improve our psyche and relationships with others.

The world needs a hundred space explorers. If someone truly aspires to be an astronaut, go ahead! Better is a happy, wise, responsible person, and at the same time also our messenger from the Earth. What an astronaut is - unhappy, scared, training and tormenting himself, only because he is not ready to love himself and understand his desires.

I am not against struggle and “achievement”, but struggle especially with oneself should not be meaningless. There's no need for a dummy in a spacesuit taking a selfie with the Earth in the background.

The main vital goal of a person is to be healthy physically and psychologically.. There are not so many people who are self-confident, with positive self-esteem, who know their worth and are able to realize their desires. They are able to set a goal in life, to take on the solution of a vital problem for all humanity. They have the courage and strength to solve it and live happily.

Human development goals

To realize the goal of life, a person needs only average abilities, but not enough average courage. Strength of mind is needed less than courage to resist the circumstances and prejudices of others.

A person is ineffective at achieving a goal that does not lead him to something greater than the goal itself. Therefore, it is so important to practice understanding your desires, needs, values, know your strengths and be able to work for pleasure.

Set short-term goals for self-exploration, searching for your untapped talents. Learn to overcome preconceptions about yourself and what you already “know.” Develop self-confidence, form an opinion based on personal experience. Develop courage and ability to work. You will need all this when you are ready to solve an important problem or implement a complex project.

Example: list of 50 goals

Coming up with goals can be difficult if there is little practice and awareness. Therefore, it is useful to look through examples of general development goals and adapt the ones you like.

We offer examples that lead to personal development, to the acquisition of experience, and to the expansion of ideas about oneself and the universe. It is advisable to have something else behind these goals, but they will already develop you if you decide to achieve them. I collected goals that are more environmentally friendly for our little head.

Health, sports

Step by step course. Draw a mind map of your health.
Swim 500 meters. Dive to 8 meters.
Eliminate 2-3 unhealthy foods from your diet.
Run 10 km.
For a whole week, eat only home-cooked food.
Strengthen your position in life: I am ok, others are ok.
Learn to play table tennis and tennis.
Rocking chair. Work out for 2–3 months. Get a rank.

Goals in work, in career. Financial goals

Understand the element of your calling: man - man, man - machine, man - symbols.
Increase your income by 2 times.
Live a week without urgent matters (outside of vacation).
Passive income. 100$+ / month
Work for a company. The company's goals help you realize your dreams.
Financial control. Record expenses and income for six months.
Gain experience in hiring and firing employees.

Surroundings, friends

Public performance. Perform in front of an audience of 30+ people.
Get the hang of getting to know each other.
Be able to listen to your interlocutor.
Organize a board game evening.

Personal relationships, family

Attend a group therapy training session with an experienced psychologist. Make your own opinion.
Loving is life-affirming. Cure neuroticism.
Marry or get married for love.
Take on the role of father or mother. To raise, not raise, a child.
Arrange a “spontaneous” trip.

Rest, brightness of life

Visit another continent.
Swim in two oceans.
Live 2+ months in an unfamiliar country.
Be spontaneous. They are not afraid to look stupid.
King of the hill - climb the pyramid.

Personal development goals, intelligence

Read 12+ popular science works in a year.
Get a driver's license. Drive along the serpentine road.
Learn English. Speaking level is above average.
Learn a second foreign language at a basic level.
Live according to your goal plan for the year achieving 70%+.
Write 10 articles.
Dine at the top restaurant in the city and leave no tip.

Creation

Learn to draw. Paint 5 pictures.
Choose a hobby and think about how to earn income from it in the future.
Know how to dance. Do a choreographed dance for 1+ minutes.
Sing a song at karaoke or in the studio.
Learn to play a musical instrument. Play a melody on the flute, keys, guitar, drums.
Handmade creativity. Crafts made from paper, fabric, clay, plasticine, leather.

Spirituality

Develop the ability to overcome conviction. Learn something new that I was so sure of.
The ability to overcome an old habit. Retrain yourself in something.
Formulate your purpose.
Practice meditation. Take a course or seminar.
Bring the life balance wheel to 7–10 points.
Read the New Testament. Form an opinion.
Learn to overcome fears. Overcome 5 fears.
Get an unconventional experience. Astrology, out-of-body experiences, constellations.

A man's life goals

Business is the main goal to which a man devotes his time. Idle, he is incompetent.
Ideally, this is some kind of enterprise with a humanistic idea, aimed at helping and developing other people.

It is vital for masculine nature to explore the world, seize territories (markets), compete with others, promote new goods and services. By realizing his undertaking, a man realizes himself in this world. Business is the second face of a real man.

One of the most important goals in a man’s life is his BUSINESS.

List of examples of goals for a man and a guy for 5–10 years:

Explore business management methods from your own experience.
Set 50 intermediate or medium-term goals and achieve them.
Develop the company to a turnover of $1 million
Create a service that makes life easier for other men.
Become an expert in your specialty.

The most important goals of a woman

A woman is not obliged to earn money for her family. This is a man's concern. A woman can also do business. The main thing is that this does not become her main job. She can do her own thing for the soul, but remain true to her feminine nature.

A woman’s vital goals are in the following areas: relationships, beauty, home comfort, giving love to the world, spiritual practices. Family and caring for children are the most important thing for a woman. This makes her happier.

Examples of girls’ long-term life goals:

Become a spiritual midwife. Popularize “Natural Childbirth”.
Open a psychological assistance center.
Help other women, build harmonious relationships.
Inspire a man to achieve feats in his business.
Become a teacher by vocation.
Be an example for girls - what an older woman can be.
Explore alternative perspectives on the question “What does it mean to be a woman.”

List of women's goals for the year:

Lotus birth of a child.
Creative development: dancing, music, painting.
Create a blog. Debunking myths about child development.
Go on a trip and write an adventure novel.
Learn interior design.
Learn to sew. Create a design for your collection.
Become happy. Clear your emotional blocks.

How to write your 50 goals in life - answer

Keep lists of example goals and ideas. Introduce all sorts of different dreams and goals. Break down your goals into categories: short-term (up to 1 month), medium-term (1 year) and long-term (2-5 years). When you have accumulated 50 or more goals, re-sort them and add important ones to your list of goals for the year. I keep lists on Evernote and in a notepad.

To determine your goals, we recommend the exercise “50 goals and 50 desires”. First you need to determine the range of your desires and begin to realize them. Then, where you most want to continue working - look for a more global goal. The ideal is to look for a problem, a need of humanity, and satisfy it.

Formulate not just selfish goals in life, but also those aimed at benefiting people. The goal of “Becoming a famous chef” will not bring as much satisfaction as organizing a children's center. The very wording “Become famous” speaks of an unhealthy psyche, of dislike in childhood. If you suddenly want fame, first satisfy your need for love. So save the world after you save yourself. First, cultivate strong egoism, and altruism will appear on its own, there is no need to force it.

The ideal goal of a person’s life is when you give yourself to the universe and get high from it. All you need is the freedom to do what you like. You don't have to get approval, recognition and fame. You don't need to know five languages to earn respect and admiration. You feel good both alone and in a team, doing what you think is right.

Choose your vital goals and go on your way to yourself.

Each person has his own main goal in life to which he strives. Or even several goals. They can change throughout life: losing their importance, some are removed, and others, more relevant, appear in their place. How many of these goals should there be?

John Goddard's Life Success

Successful people claim that 50 human life goals is not the maximum. The longer your list of goals, the better you will be able to understand your true desires.

For example, John Goddard, at the age of fifteen, set himself not even 50 vital, main goals that he sought to achieve, but 127! For the uninitiated, a note: we are talking about a researcher, anthropologist, traveler, holder of scientific degrees, Member of the Society of French Explorers, the Royal Geographical Society and the Archaeological Society, multiple record holder of the Guinness Book of Records.

On his half-century anniversary, John celebrated - he achieved 100 of his 127 goals. One can only envy his rich life.

Goals to avoid shame and pain

A happy person is called accomplished and successful. No one will call a loser happy - success is a component of happiness. Almost everyone remembers Ostrovsky’s famous phrase from “How I Became Tempered” about how to live my life. The end of the quote is especially striking: “So that it doesn’t hurt excruciatingly...” So that at the end of your life you don’t feel pain and shame for wasted time, you need to set goals for yourself today.

To consider life successful, a person must achieve 50 of the most important life goals in old age. Summing up his life, a person compares what he dreamed of with what he achieved. But it happens that over the years it is difficult to remember many of your desires and goals, so it is difficult to make comparisons. This is why it is so important to write 50 most important goals in life on a piece of paper and periodically re-read the list.

Another important aspect is to try to write it down. This means that your goals must meet five important criteria: specific, measurable, relevant, achievable, and time-bound.

Human needs

Before making a list, you should understand what is priority and vital for a person. Air, drink, food, sleep - the 4 most important needs of organic life. The second row comes health, housing, clothing, sex, recreation - necessary attributes of life, but secondary. Unlike animals, humans tend not only to satisfy the basic needs of life; they want to do this while receiving aesthetic pleasure.

It is impossible for a person to live without satisfying primary needs, and without satisfying secondary needs it is difficult. Therefore, if at least one link in this chain is destroyed, the person suffers physically, firstly, morally, secondly. He's unhappy. But even if all the vital needs of an individual are satisfied, his life cannot be called happy. Here is such a paradox.

Therefore, the 50 vitally important, priority goals of a person must necessarily include points, through the implementation of which the primary and secondary needs of a person would be satisfied.

Adding to the list such goals as “buying your own house” or “relaxing at sea”, “doing the necessary medical operation” or “getting your teeth treated and inserted”, “buying a fur coat” and “buying a car” may not be so important for complete happiness ( why - will be discussed below), but achieving them makes living on earth more comfortable for people. To satisfy these needs and achieve the goals listed above, an individual needs money. And, when selecting the 50 most important goals of a person, the list must include an item regarding the financial condition of the individual. Examples of such goals:

find a high-paying job;
open your own business;
ensure that the business generates a net income of more than $10,000 per month, and the like.

Sample list of 50 goals

Spiritual self-improvement:

Read the collected works of J. London.
Complete English courses.
Forgive grievances against parents and friends.
Stop being jealous.
Increase personal efficiency by 1.5 times.
Get rid of laziness and procrastination.
Write at least 1000 characters daily for your unfinished novel (personal blog).
Make peace with your sister (husband, mother, father).
Start writing a personal diary every day.
Attend church at least once a month.

Physical self-improvement:

Go to the gym 3 times a week.
Go to the sauna and pool weekly.
Do a set of exercises every morning;
Every evening, take a walk for at least half an hour at a brisk pace.
Completely abandon the list of harmful products.
Once a quarter, go on a three-day cleansing fast.
In three months I will learn to do the splits.
In winter, go on a ski trip to the forest with your grandson (son, daughter, nephew).
Lose 4 kilograms.
Douse yourself with cold water in the morning.

Financial goals:

Increase your monthly income to 100,000 rubles.
Raise the TIC of your website (blog) to 30 by the end of this year.
Go to the level of receiving passive income.
Learn to play on the stock exchange.
Learn how to make custom websites yourself.
Repay your bank loan early.
Entrust all housework to automatic machines in order to save time for earning money.
Save on pointless and harmful things: cigarettes, alcohol, sweets, chips, crackers.
Purchase all products from wholesale stores, except perishable ones.
Buy a summer house for growing fresh organic products.

Comfort and pleasure:

Charity:

Contribute 10% of profits to the orphanage every month for gifts for children.
Organize a New Year's performance with gifts for orphans using the efforts of a local theater - finance it.
Do not pass by those asking for alms - be sure to give alms.
Help a homeless animal shelter by donating money to feed the dogs.
For the New Year, give all the kids at the entrance a small present.
On Elderly Day, give all pensioners a set of groceries.
Buy a computer for a large family.
Give unnecessary things to those in need.
Build a children's playground in the yard.
Help the financially talented girl Tanya go to the “Light Up Your Star” competition in Moscow.

Demand as the main component of happiness

In addition, for complete happiness of an individual, something else is necessary. And this “something” is called recognition. Only when in demand does a person feel his importance, pleasure, and happiness. Each person has their own criteria for recognition. For some, a simple “thank you” for preparing dinner is enough. Others feel a feeling of complete happiness from the manifestations of tenderness of a sexual partner - this is recognition, the identification of an individual among all others.

For some, it is enough to bring sterile cleanliness to the house and hear words of admiration from their neighbors, while others need to see delight in the eyes of those they meet when they see their appearance, figure, outfit, hairstyle. For others, it is important to recognize them as excellent parents. For the fourth, recognition on a broader level is necessary. These fourth people do not limit the circle of people with whom they want to be recognized: relatives, loved ones, neighbors, fellow travelers, passers-by.

These are scientists, pioneers, major businessmen, creative people and a number of other professions. The most successful are people who receive recognition both from their loved ones, friends, children, neighbors, and from colleagues, fans, viewers, readers - a wider circle of people. It is important to add the appropriate items to the list of “50 goals in my life.” Examples of such goals could be:

find your soul mate to create a family, who (who) will be such and such, for whom I will feel respect, love (passion), feelings must be reciprocated;
help my son successfully finish school;
give children higher education;
defend a thesis;
release your own collection of stories (disc of songs) or organize an exhibition of paintings.

Intermediate goals

Achieving global goals requires actions to help move forward. Therefore, it is necessary to write intermediate goals related to advanced training, education, and acquisition of skills. And in the list of “50 human life goals,” examples of these could be:

read the collected works of Dostoevsky;
reading manuals for businessmen, authored by John Rockefeller (for example, "" success;"
studying the life stories and paths to success of major figures of science and culture;
studying of foreign language;
obtaining a second education.

This list can be continued at your own discretion, based on the main goals.

Goals-motivators

To achieve the main goals, incentives are needed that occupy the position of intermediate goals. They are included in the list by designating; “50 intermediate human life goals”. The list of these goals includes the following items:

go on a trip around the world;
buy a new laptop;
make repairs in the apartment;
update your wardrobe for the new season.

Some may write the items “to have facial plastic surgery” or “to perform abdominoplasty.” After all, for many, improving their appearance is a hidden desire, which they are sometimes ashamed of. But when compiling a list of motivating goals, you must definitely write down those that will give a person pleasure in life. These goals do not have important life needs, but without joy and pleasure a person languishes, he is bored with life, and the meaning of achieving his main goals is lost.

Charity is the most important human goal

Studying the path to success of John Rockefeller, everyone sees: he is a philanthropist. Donating a tenth of profits to charity is the main rule of his life. According to psychologists, helping people is useful and extremely pleasant. Therefore, in the “50 vital goals”, when compiling a list, you should include points relating to this aspect of life. By doing charity, a person enjoys receiving recognition.