Okay, You’re successful. Now What?

You’ve achieved your educational goals. You have a professional career and years of working experience that has gotten you there. Now what?

Achieving your goals should be something to be celebrated. I remember taking a refresher course on achieving goals. It was segmented into several areas: Educational, Professional, Personal, etc. As I started to write my goals down, I realized that I had achieved several of the goals I had written in previous goal setting courses. I even commented to a coworker, “I’ve achieved most of my goals”. My coworker commented, “Now it’s time to set new goals.”

My initial thoughts were, why not celebrate the ones I’ve achieved. I think there is fear that if you stop to appreciate what you’ve done, you’ll get stagnate or something. Turns out my coworker was right. I noticed I hadn’t really focused on my personal goals. First my goals were work-based: educational and professional. Now my goals now are to learn to relax, take time to develop personal relationships and to continue to develop my hobbies. My personal goals had taken a back seat for years.

What’s even more ironic is I don’t even know how I started from personal-based to where I am now, which is work-based. Now, I’m trying to get back to personal-based and I’m realizing the transition is not easy. My main hurdle is time management.

Some things I’ve had to learn in order to combat time management can be located at:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5570503_manage-success-time.html?shared=true