Greatness

12/18/11

Just finished watching the Social Network movie. Crazy stuff, to see (even dramatized) the creation of a platform that is now an integral part of my and the rest of the world age 30 and under's lifestyle. An integral part of how I organize and represent myself as a person along with my ideas.

Unbelievable the amount of money they made as well. Just viewed the businessinsider.com and found a section on the worth of the shares for those people who were part of its inception and creation.
http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-facebooks-soon-to-be-billionaire-shareholders-2010-5#facebook-cofounder-dustin-moskovitz-no-longer-with-the-company-owns-6-worth-13-billion-4

I want to leave my mark in the world, and I want to have fun and be passionate as I do it as well. I keep getting the line, this is not realistic. I want to make it so, and if I fail, well that unhappy life is not one I wish to live anyway.

Its time to decide.... ha, its always time to decide, and for some reason I have held myself back from making a decision.

SO what does this mean? I think I need to go out and do whatever it takes to make my dreams come true.

What are my dreams? Why did I rename this blog to dreams? Because complaining and whining don't ever get you closer to your dreams. Action and good planning do. What are the steps that I must go through to best set me on my way?


Next section taken from: http://www.mindtools.com/page6.html

"Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals

The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime (or at least, by a significant and distant age in the future). Setting lifetime goals gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision making.

To give a broad, balanced coverage of all important areas in your life, try to set goals in some of the following categories (or in other categories of your own, where these are important to you):
• Career - What level do you want to reach in your career, or what do you want to achieve?
• Financial - How much do you want to earn, by what stage? How is this related to your career goals?
• Education - Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular? What information and skills will you need to have in order to achieve other goals?
• Family - Do you want to be a parent? If so, how are you going to be a good parent? How do you want to be seen by a partner or by members of your extended family?
• Artistic - Do you want to achieve any artistic goals?
• Attitude - Is any part of your mindset holding you back? Is there any part of the way that you behave that upsets you? (If so, set a goal to improve your behavior or find a solution to the problem.)
• Physical - Are there any athletic goals that you want to achieve, or do you want good health deep into old age? What steps are you going to take to achieve this?
• Pleasure - How do you want to enjoy yourself? (You should ensure that some of your life is for you!)
• Public Service - Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

Spend some time brainstorming these things, and then select one or more goals in each category that best reflect what you want to do. Then consider trimming again so that you have a small number of really significant goals that you can focus on.

As you do this, make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you genuinely want to achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or employers might want. (If you have a partner, you probably want to consider what he or she wants - however, make sure that you also remain true to yourself!)


Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals

Once you have set your lifetime goals, set a five-year plan of smaller goals that you need to complete if you are to reach your lifetime plan.

Then create a one-year plan, six-month plan, and a one-month plan of progressively smaller goals that you should reach to achieve your lifetime goals. Each of these should be based on the previous plan.

Then create a daily To-Do List of things that you should do today to work towards your lifetime goals.

At an early stage, your smaller goals might be to read books and gather information on the achievement of your higher level goals. This will help you to improve the quality and realism of your goal setting.

Finally review your plans, and make sure that they fit the way in which you want to live your life."

Guess I should begin here.
Peace,
Alex