So your happy with your life, you go to work, come home everyday, maybe watch some TV, tidy the house, sort out the kids, the usual stuff, end of the month comes pay your bills, you life is comfortable, as long as nothing goes wrong, your usual routine should see you through life just fine. Banks love you because monies coming regular, you might have a few credit cards, loans and mortgage, government love you because no matter what you got to to pay your taxes, so hey what the heck why set goals?

Ok so why the need to move forward, why the need to set goals, why the need to try new directions, expand your field, why the need to upset your happy routine... You might even say I don't need these self help rubbish I read on websites, in books etc.

Fine, well don't move forward, no one is forcing you, in fact, stay where you are, comfortable, in a nice routine, however, there is only one problem, while you stay where you are, everything around you changes and one of the things in life that is ever constant is change.

You see, if you are not setting goals to keep the wheels moving forward, in effect, you are peddling backwards and the further backwards you go, the more likely you are to be stuck in your ways and the harder it becomes to change.

The risk of changing appears to be higher because in your mind, you believe you have a lot more to lose so you stay where you are. A friend of mine was once comfortable, until they got redundant, they worked for a company for years over 20 years, a company that promised a job for life.

Their goal was to work for this company till retirement and then collect a good pension packet, but Oooops the pension collapsed due to government mishandling, so all of a sudden their 1 goal is taking a beating, with no where to go, they are now FORCED to reset their goals, now it's hard because they don’t know this new situation, no income, no jobs on the horizon due to job shortage within the area of their expertise. All because they were happy to stay where they were and not continue to move forward in life.

If this person was continuously moving forward and setting goals the outcome could have been different. Example, if this person had decided to set goals in the likely event that something would go wrong, then the situation they are in now would not have bothered them, i.e., maybe setup 3 or 4 investment funds, maybe spend less time in front of TV and more time learning new skills in their spare time, just simple little things to keep up with the very nature of change.

This is just an example why it is important to keep setting new goals, backup goals, future goals, goals goals goals!!!! In the life of sports think of it like this... goals win games, if you don't move forward you cannot score goals, if in the game of soccer everyone stood still on the pitch how the heck is a goal going to be scored.

The bottom line is to move forward or not, the choice is yours, however do bare in mind by not moving forward you are in effect going backwards.

Set your goals, be extravagant if that is your style be simple if that is you but whatever you do keep moving forward is my suggestion