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Every human is a creature than needs a purpose. Without this, we can often find ourselves listlessly wandering the Earth, not tied down to anyone or anything. This sounds freeing, and for some it is, but it’s also important to remember that it is not how we are wired. While you may not want to settle down and start a family immediately upon entering your thirties, it’s also not appropriate to criticize those who do.
However, sometimes, we can feel a little lost in our purpose, and not know how to generate it. This is where it can be important to understand what might inspire us. You can achieve this should you hope to. We would like to help you do so. For that reason, we would like to offer some examples of excellent milestones that might help serve as a personal guide for the goals in your life, helping you see what might be most important to you, and giving you a slight idea of how life could look should you give it the time of day.
Let us consider:
Overcoming Your Fears
It can often be that we have dedicated targets to reach at. For example, we might desire to reach a certain level at our job in the next five years, and we’ll work our butts off to get there. However, sometimes goals can be a little less set in stone and still remain absolutely worthwhile. For example – overcoming your fears can be one of the most important things you do for yourself. It can often be very hard to quantify this, of course. Not all of us know exactly what fears we have until we examine them, and even then they have a habit of sticking and rebuilding themselves almost like a hidden cobweb in our minds.
However, we all have our fears, no matter how self-assured we are. Perhaps we wish to approach our neighbor due to the noise they seem to be making day and night, that is, quite frankly, annoying us beyond compare. It might be finally demanding your worth by asking your boss for the raise you feel you are due, and if not, having the strength to seek employment elsewhere. Overcoming your fears is hard to check on a list of things you might want to do, but it is still absolutely essential for your overall health and personal understanding. If you cannot focus on this, you will perpetually find yourself being shaken by the winds of change, not to mention other strong-headed folks around you. Facing your fears is perhaps more than a simple life milestone, because it helps you achieve all those other milestones with much more enjoyment and interest.
Your Living Situation
Many of us, especially those who are young professionals, treat their living situation as something appropriate in the ‘here and now.’ The practicality can often overcome style, and on top of that, moving from place to place might be necessary as we job hunt, decide to branch out from our home town, and of course, much more than this.
A turning point comes when we are more able to directly and purposefully consider our living situation. It might be that we have been settled for some time, and our goal is to now build a retirement home through professional duplex home builders. Perhaps we might wish to build our own home someday. Or, perhaps we just wish to rectify our personal accounts to the point where gaining a solid home loan can help us finally move forward with our relationship and settle down in an area we love.
No matter who you are, it’s not hard to see the value in this. We would heavily recommend you consider how this could apply to your own life, as often, a direct effort to live somewhere is necessary for that to be a possibility.
Quitting The Vices
Many of us hold at least one vice. If we don’t smoke, we might drink just a little too much wine at the weekends. If that’s not it, perhaps we have a hobby of picking up too many digital licenses of video games and leaving them unplayed for so long. Perhaps we are prone to anger, or perhaps haven’t attended a social event in quite some time for fear of not enjoying it.
Quitting your vices is both a mixture of a verifiable life milestone you can take (entering a 12 step program is a very measured and reliable means of getting clean, for example,) but it’s also a deeply spiritual journey, and even those who discount any form of spiritual life will likely know what we mean if heading through the journey themselves. Note, it’s not religious. But quitting the vices often means coming back and saying ‘yes’ to life, something that many may not have done for quite some time, sometimes for decades. Quitting the vices can be a worthwhile approach, and something worth fighting for. But first, you might need to assess what your vices are. Consider what you’ve been meaning to work on for some time. You’ll likely know what it is.
Becoming Debt-Free
Many of us have at least some form of debt. If it’s not a student loan, it might be due to past financial mishandling, a deal gone bad, or perhaps the mortgage you are part of. Of course, ‘good debt,’ such as a mortgage, is much different from having collection firms chase you. But no matter the debt, looking to have it wiped by a particular time could potentially help you overcome the issues you are experiencing now.
It might be you seek to access additional employment opportunities, wish to reduce your premiums down to a certain level, or simply save for a large expense you know you’ll need, such as a larger home loan deposit to reduce the intensity of your terms. No matter who you are or what you desire, this goal can prove absolutely incredible.