When we were young most of us wanted to be pilots, astronauts, movie stars, teachers or even archeologist ! But then we grow up, we want to be engineers, doctors, business men and some of us still want to be pilots, movie stars

Somewhere in the process of growing up we tend to stop chasing dreams, we chase things - expensive cars, good looking girls, big companies and money to add jam and ham to our bread and butter. We become slaves of mechanical chores of live, running a rat race to nowhere. And after a few years many of us sit back on a couch and wonder, Did I really want this ? Is this taking me to where I want to go? Trust me I m going through that. That is one of the key motivations to blog. To discover what’s happening and figure out what to do.

I realised I had stopped dreaming and being creative. I have ended in a routine and I need to break that ! So anyways again cutting the crap here is what I did and plan to do every 6 months for short term and every 1 year for long term.

Setting Goals is an important part of this process for me. A few days back I did this exercise. See if this helps you;

On a piece of paper (not gedit / notepad ) I started writing  … any ways will cut the crap and sarcasm now.

1) what I WANT to do in next 5 years. Frankly I was not at all realistic or modest. Anything and everything that came out of my mind
2) Put a * against what already efforts are being put
3) Put this list aside safely

After a break started on a fresh piece of paper

1) Take a simple piece of papers and pen, write down what I always WANTED to do
2) Put a tick against what I have achieved
3) Put a * against what I made an effort but did not accomplish
4) Underlined what I completely missed out on my agenda.
5) Safely put aside this paper for future reference

So now you have 3 lists - Did It, Tried It, Skipped It !

It is very likely that you will landup totally disillusioned and be thinking What the F**k have I done to my life. Now

1) Compare with the first list and see
a) what is common and new
b) what is not accomplished and not on the list now !
c) what never took off and not in the new list as well

Wow! This seems to be getting complex and boring. But this is exactly where the interesting part really starts and see how your priorities have changed.

a) Common List : These are my dreams I m chasing
b) New Items : This is what seems to interest me now.
c) Not in the new list - Accomplished / Unaccomplished / Unattempted - Is something from the past that I have moved on from to something maybe more mature or realistic.

I have not putting up my list so far. I don’t see why anyone would be interested in them but yes I have them in front to me to remind me of where I want to go. I will constantly revise this list for my own good as change is the only thing constant in the list