Hourly goals

What’s new year resolution?? What’s birthday resolution?? What’s this year resolution that year..so on……I have been hearing these questions and respective answers from individuals throughout my life. Some achieving at the end of the year and most end up in postponing their resolutions for the next year or ending up with disappointment. Many times, this disappointment gives lot of positive energy to measure/extend themselves and achieve the goals next time, this is even more effective in case of exams in school and college days.

Setting long term goals and ending up either in happiness or disappointment once or few times in an year, and most valuable outcome of setting goals called “EXPERIENCE” comes just few times in an year. Imagine if that experience comes 10 times in an year, 20 times, 100 times in an year , 1000 times in an year and …….…….

Six months back, when I was working on some work at SCB myself set a target of finishing work in 2 hours and the end result after two hours was nothing, too much frustrated but deep down thoroughly enjoyed the process of setting goal, measuring myself and gaining the experience. Then continued the same for the whole day and at the end of the day found a valuable realistic hourly life cycle “set goals-measure-experience”. I stated enjoying work and work place more than ever, every hour of my life looking so valuable for me, I report to my work to manager once in a fortnight or once in a month but I am reporting to my consciousness many times in a day, it became part of my life. It’s not just for work but for anything I do, when I play , when I help my wife for cooking, when I travel, when I have to escape work for next one hour ,when I think……for everything this hourly goals automatically triggering in my mind and the experience I am gaining out of it is so wonderful.

These hourly goals are not obligation on me, these are something which helping me to know myself better, to gain experience many times in a day, to enjoy life better and to enjoy the life journey better.

Rather than having yearly goals or quarterly or few times in an year and just few experiences, I feel hourly goals are realistic for individuals and one can have many experiences in a day itself. one may consider to try it…

PS: I finished my hourly goal of watching IPL, replying to my wife’s questions and writing this blog before sleep in parallel :-)