Man's 12 Ultimate Goals in Life

Generally, man has 12 areas of achievement. For anyone to have a full life, he should fulfill his goals in each of these areas. The following are man's 12 ultimate goals in life:

1) Physical goals are your health, strength, physique, sports, beauty, and attractiveness goals.

2) Educational goals are your college degree, post graduate, seminars, personal skills, and lifelong learning goals.

3) Emotional goals are your goals for love and relationships, emotional stability, happiness, feeling good, and feeling needed.

4) Spiritual goals are your religious, spiritual, and philosophical goals.

5) Financial goals are your money earning, saving, and investing goals.

6) Material goals include housing, car, appliances, jewelry, real estate, and personal property goals.

7) Career goals entail your professional, occupational, career, and corporate goals.

8) Business goals are your production, trade, commerce, industry, entrepreneurial, and income-generating goals.

9) Pleasure goals include travel vacations, cruises, spas, hobby and recreational goals.

10) Ego goals are goals that further your desire for fame, adulation, power, leadership, influence, and even personal fantasies.

11) Humanitarian goals are what you want to do for charity and for the betterment of society, community, country, and mankind.

12) Legacy goals are what you want to leave behind when you die like books and publications, paintings, musical compositions, a charitable or educational foundation, etc.

(From Dero Pedero's column in Sunday Life, Philippine Star, Nov 7, 2004)