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Keep Your End Objective In Mind


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To keep your end objective in mind is crucial for conscious living. It can be divided into two phases: 1) Identify your end objective 2) Evaluate everything against your objective.

1) Identify Your End Objective

Whenever you are starting a new task, activity or goal, always be clear on what your end objective is. Why are you doing this? Is it serving some larger meaning? Where does it fall in the larger context?

This is the same as the second habit in Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is Begin With The End In Mind.

There are 3 kinds of end objectives you need to be clear on:

  1. Life objective: What is your purpose in life?
  2. Goal objective: What is the objective of your goal?
  3. Task objective: What is the objective of this task you are doing?

Each objective sets the context for the item below it. For example, your life purpose sets the overall context for your life and your goals. Your goals sets the context for tasks, activities and things you do everyday. Thus, the tasks you do everyday should be a subset of your goals, while your goals should be a subset of your life purpose.

Your purpose is like the grandmother of all end objectives. If you…


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Published Feb 20 2009
Filed: Awareness & Growth, Goals & Success, Productivity & GTD, Purpose & Meaning
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