Goal Setting

I think that the value of goal setting is underestimated by many. Most people fail to set any goals and wander aimlessly through their life. I did an outline of my goals and values not so long ago and I must say that your long term goals really make you question your present activities. We are so caught up in the urgency of many seemingly important tasks that we fail to do things that are important but not urgent. Most of my activities are urgent, most of them are unimportant and few that are important. Waste of time occurs when we engage in activities that are not urgent and are not important. I will incorporate the daily, weekly and monthly planning as part of my daily routine. Planning is one thing, equally important is the execution. I had problems with the execution in the past, but these days I don't have much problems with the execution. Things that used to get delayed are now done more or less on time.
I had an epiphany on the importance of our thoughts and mindset yesterday. It's really important to think positively and to seek solutions rather than dwell on negative things. How many negative thoughts do you have a day? Do these thoughts outweigh the negative ones? I read about a positive thought challenge. The aim of the challenge is to think positive thoughts and whenever a negative thought creeps in, replace that thought with a solution to that problem. This thing will probably work wonders and I will try to implement it as part of my self-discipline shtick. Another realization that occurred to me is that people are very unfocused and distracted in their lives. We fail to think things through and base many if not most of our important decisions on our emotions. Emotions on the other hand often cause us to make poor judgments and decisions. When was the last time that you carefully sat through and contemplated on a problem? Did you think 3-4 or even 5 steps ahead? I doubt that many of us think in so many steps ahead and it's probably not an easy task either.