The first question on the “Self-Analysis Questionnaire for Personal Inventory:

1. Have I attained the goal which I established as my objective for this year?

It is suggested in “Think And Grow Rich” that one should work with a definite yearly objective to be attained as part of one’s major life objective.

I imagine this is something most people are aware of one way or another, that you need to have goals in life. You need something you aim to achieve that motivates the tasks you undertake on a daily basis. But many people actually go through life without any consciousness of a definite goal. Everybody wants to be rich, but when most people make the statement that they’d like to have millions some day, the exclamation is usually uttered as wishful thinking rather than a statement of intention to strive to accumulate millions. People are usually just busy going through the motions of living, doing as needed to survive, working towards the common goal of having enough money to pay the bills.

But this is about self analysis; it’s about me and whether or not I have attained the goal which I established as my obhective for this year.

Although I had not set any concrete goal on paper, my mission throughout this year has been to chart a new course for my business. After dissolving a partnership, closing the phase of my business that has been the main source of income for 5+ years, I was left to figure out the direction in which I need to head in order to put myself in a position to better achieve my goals of financial freedom.

So my goal this year, essentially, has been to re-structure my business; and I have most certainly done that with a Limited Liability Corporation formed, and 4 new website projects underway.

What is interesting is that until I sat down to ponder the question this morning it had not occurred to me that I had achieved anything at all this year. In fact, before I began to think, I was in the process of stating that I had not achieved my objective for the year; but then it began to dawn on me that I was confusing my objective with my fantasy; that my objective for the year wasn’t to earn millions. Earning millions was my desire; and what I desired did not materialize. But my goal, my objective was indeed attained.