How to Reach Your Goal

The goal-setting articles in this section can help you set realistic and practical goals.

Reaching your goal is more than deciding what you want and moving toward it. It also involves recognizing if your goal is fair to others, if it supports a healthy ego, etc. This index to goal-setting articles can help you set realistic and practical goals.

That is why, in moving toward your goals, it helps to remember the standards for goal-setting designed by Rotary, an international organization of volunteers who provide humanitarian service, promote high ethical standards in all professions, and promote good will and peace in the world.

Their motto — "To serve unselfishly" — is reflected in a test of four questions (adopted in 1943) that members are to ask themselves about everything they think, say and do (and the rest of us should do as well):

1. Is it true?

2. Is it fair to everybody?

3. Will it lead to goodwill and better friendship?

4. Will it be useful to everybody?