- Another Perspective on Wealth
- Setting Personal Goals
- Introduction
- Learn How Wise Financial Planning Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
- Understand The Requirements for Your Personal Financial Plan
- Identify What You Want to Accomplish in Life
- Understand and Apply the Principles of Effective Goal Setting
- First: Strive to Learn What Heavenly Father Wants You to Do.
- Second: Seek Heavenly Father's Help in Setting Goals
- Third: Start With the End in Mind
- Fourth: Write Down Your Goals
- Fifth: Keep Your Goals SMART
- Sixth: Review Your Goals Often
- Seventh: Remember That Some of Your Goals Will Change
- Eighth: Set Some Fun Goals
- Ninth: Remember Success is Not Measured by Achievement, but by Striving
- Summary
- Assignments
- Understanding and Managing Credit
- Conclusions 1: Learning to Give
- Conclusions 2: Decide to Decide
Ninth: Remember Success is Not Measured by Achievement, but by Striving
While goals are an important part of life, we should be careful not to make the achievement of goals our only criteria for success. Elder Marvin J. Ashton counseled:
Set your goals—without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving. If you are striving for excellence—if you are trying your best day by day with the wisest use of your time and energy to reach realistic goals—you are a success (Marvin J. Ashton, “Choose the Good Part,” Ensign, May 1984, 9).
