Determine Your True Goals

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Dated: 2026-Apr-30

What do I really want to do with my life?

I could write a long post to answer this question.

I don't know for sure... Also, that's a very broad question.

I want to do something for the betterment of my country India, for the betterment of my state Haryana, for the betterment of my city Gurgaon.

I want to do something for the cause of education.
I want to do something for the poor, towards elevating poverty.



Decide What You Really Want

You start with your general goals and then move to more to more specific goals:

1. What are your three most important goals in your business and career, right now?

2. What are your three most important financial goals right now?

3. What are your three most important family or relationship goals, right now?

4. What are your three most important health and fitness goals, right now?



My Answers

Three most important goals in business and career:

# Get a project
# Learn Agentic AI
# Improve my soft skills

Three most important financial goals:

# Be debt free
# Build a financial cushion
# Build retirement corpus

Three most important relationship goals:

# Improve my relations with my mother
# Improve my relations with my sisters (Anu and Srishti)
# Be a better friend to my friends

Three most important goals health/fitness wise:

# Reduce weight to 65 kgs
# Do 40+ pushups daily
# Do 10K+ steps daily



What are my three biggest worries or concerns in life, right now?

Where does it hurt?

1: It feels like I have been running since 2008. That's 19 years. I don't know how and when would it end. Does it even have an end?

2: Would I become a better person? Be able to work on my mistakes, work on my shortcomings? Or would I be a spoilt child for the rest of my life?

3: Would I ever have enough money?

Now think on following points...

1. What are the ideal solutions to each of these problems?

2. How could I eliminate these problems or worries immediately?

3. What is the fastest and most direct way to solve this problem?



Six Months To Live

Here is another goal setting question that reflects your true values. Imagine that you went to a doctor for a full medical check-up.

Your doctor calls you back a few days later and says, “I have good news for you and I have bad news for you. The good news is that, for the next six months, you are going to live the healthiest and most energetic life you could possibly imagine. The bad news is that, at the end of 180 days, because of an incurable illness, you will drop stone dead.”

If you learned today that you only had six months left to live, how would you spend your last six months on earth? Who would you spend the time with? Where would you go? What would you strive to complete? What would you do more of, or less of?

When you ask yourself this question, what comes to the top of your mind will be a reflection of your true values. Your answer would almost always include the most important people in your life.

Very few people in this situation would say, “Well, I’d like to get back to the office and return a few phone calls.”



The Instant Millionaire

Here is another goal setting question:

“If you won a million dollars tomorrow, cash, tax free, how would you change your life?”

What would you do differently? What would you get into or out of?

What would you do more of or less of? What would be the first thing you would do if you learned today that you had just received one million dollars cash?

This is a way of asking the question, “How would you change your life if you were completely free to choose? The primary reason that we stay in situations that are not the best for us is because we fear change. But when you imagine that you have all the money that you will ever need, to do or be whatever you want, your true goals often emerge.

For example, if you were currently in the wrong job for you, the idea of winning a large amount of money would cause you to think about quitting that job immediately. If you were in the right job for you however, winning a lot of money would not affect your career choice at all. So ask yourself:

“What would I do if I won a million dollars cash, tax free, tomorrow?”



Recap

Determine Your True Goals

1. Write down your three most important goals in life right now.

2. What are your three most pressing problems or worries right now?

3. If you won a million dollars cash, tax free, tomorrow, what changes in your life would you make immediately?

4. What do you really love to do? What gives you the greatest feelings of value, importance and satisfaction?

5. If you could wave a magic wand over your life and have anything you wanted, what would you wish for?

6. What would you do, how would you spend your time, if you only had six months left to live?

7. What would you really want to do with your life, especially if you had no limitations?

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