Book Review: Pressing towards the Goal by Sundar Sangma

  

"Pressing towards the Goal" - Authored by Sundar Singh Sangma,

The Director of Ministry at Haggai Institute, India

The book simplifies the art of Goal Setting and Planning. Reading through, I realized that most of what we tag ‘goals’ are mere wishes. I had a redirection towards goal setting both for short-run and long-run goals. The book is a good-read for everyone who wants to get it right in becoming effective and not just being busy achieving little.

The author carefully addressed the misconceptions about goal, the challenges we often face that prevent us from setting or achieving our goals and the key processes to follow in setting realistic, yet challenging, Goals.

You will find in the book the principal characteristics of a good goal to be G: God-Glorifying, O: Objective, A: Ambitious and L: Life Enhancing. The fundamental requirement for every goal to be SMART - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Bound -was also outlined and exemplified. The Author used very applicable examples to explain what could be regarded as goals and what’s not. Role Models in Goal Setting were also not left out; including our Lord Jesus who had His Goal fixed right from start and finished it.

Conclusively, a more reason why everyone should take Goal Setting serious is a research figure the Author presented. It was found out that only 3% of people were found to be Highly Successful and those were those who had specific written goals and were working towards them; another 10% were Just Successful; another 60% Less Successful and others considered Failures and they were those who never considered what they wanted out of life. So, which category you and I would belong to depends on our actions today. Start Pressing towards the Goal!

 

 Notable Quotes on Goal Setting

“Begin with the end in mind” – Stephen Covey

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“All man dreams; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible” – T.W. Lawrence

“It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success. Only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy – very busy without being effective.” – Stephen Covey

“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God” – William Covey

“You see things as they are; and ask, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and ask, why not?” – George Bernard Shaw

 

Conversation between Alice and the Cheshire cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Adventures in Wonderland

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ asked alice –

‘that depends a good deal on where you want to get to’, said the cat.

‘I don’t much care where,’  said Alice, ‘ so long as I get somewhere.’

‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the cat

 

So, it's necessary you have a direction and press on towards the goals.

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