Why it is important to ensure your Personal Goals are in Harmony with your Business Goals

What is the reason for working?
As most of us will spend the majority of our lives in a working environment, it is important that we find an occupation or business that will provide us with job satisfaction.

Is not the purpose of a business (job) to be the vehicle that will enable us to do the things that make us happy?

Many business people I have met have their priorities all mixed up. Their business has become their life and the people they care for the most – their spouses and children – suffer the consequences.

What is your major definite purpose?
- Do you know the reason you have been put on this earth?
- What are the things you enjoy doing the most?
- What do people like about you?
- What are the skills you have acquired?
- What tasks do you involve yourself with where time has no meaning?

Richard Bolles in his book "What Colour is Your Parachute" (apparently over 25,000 copies are sold every month world wide, and the book has been reprinted several times) says that the purpose of life is to:

Know God (you can debate the pros and cons of this statement)
To leave this world a better place than it was before you came into it (again you can weigh up the pros and cons), and
To be what you are but become what you are capable of becoming.

To me this statement means that I need to play the hand that has been dealt to me and to utilize my abilities and potential to the fullest.

What do you want to do with your life?

How can you use your skills and abilities to benefit your fellow men / women?

I have yet to meet anybody who said on their deathbed that they wished they had spent more time at the office.