Definite Chief Aim 4th Edition

How to Write an Effective Definite Chief Aim, Goal, and Objective

By Rom Antony Day, Victoria, and Michelle

Friday, May 09, 2014; 4th Edition

Abstract: Have an Income Goal for You + Know your reason(s) for it.

One thing you may find helpful is to make the goal practical and emotional to you. For example, to state an income and employment related practical goal expressly, you might want to say something like "Thursday, month/day/year I shall have found a job as a <whatever it is you do extraordinarily well, are qualified to do and can get paid for> earning <you state the dollar amount> in such and such city(ies)."

In the final analysis, future is not going to depend on economic conditions or outside influence or circumstance over which you have no control; your future is going to depend on your purpose. Moreover, Purpose needs to be Practical and Emotional to you.

For example, it would not be practical for me to set a purpose of becoming President of the United States of America. The reason is that although I am an American Citizen, I am via the naturalization process instead of by birth in the U.S.A.. However, as an American Citizen, I can become President of a Corporation and I am.

Another good example would be if you are only a National by the fact that you were born on one of the American territories such as Puerto Rico or The Canal of Panama but never applied and qualified to become a complete Citizenship of The United States of America, it would not be practical for you to say that you will vote on U.S.A. elections; you can not as the right to vote on U.S.A. elections is reserved exclusively for American Citizens; Nationals can not.

A third example, which would be practical, is to say that you want to advance from being only a National or other type of legal alien of the U.S.A. to become a Citizen of The U.S.A. so you can in the future qualify to participate in the U.S.A. electoral process at the city, county and nation-wide government election levels. That is to say if you meet all other necessary qualifications. If this is an emotional purpose to you in addition to being practical, then you have a good SMART purpose.

In the same vain of illustrating a practical and emotional purpose, you may want to serve America under the corporate Veil of a U.S.A. Federal Government Agency. While on the one hand if you are a Citizen of the U.S.A. by birth or by the Naturalization process and can prove it with legitimate documentation, and you meet the qualifications for certain types of jobs, you may call the purpose with a date practical; and if it has a especial emotional meaning to you, then it may qualify as emotional, too. Thereby giving you more wood to add to your own fire (fire being symbolic of life) to strive to achieve it.

On the contrary, if you are only a U.S.A. National and can prove it, but you are not a Citizen of The United States of America, the purpose would be more impractical than practical. The reason is that most jobs with the U.S.A. Federal Government are reserved exclusively for qualified Citizens of the U.S.A. and rightly so. And although often it does recruit for Nationals only, the cases are few and far in between. Therefore, this type of employment purpose is not a good purpose but only a vision, which may become true if you would qualify to and become an American Citizen, and are qualified to do a certain type of job.

As I am sure, you are able to see via the examples the importance of making sure your purpose in any area of the wheel-of-life (Career, health, social, financial, education, family areas etc) is Practical and Emotional, may I suggest asking yourself one question about any purpose you have?

That question would be "Is this purpose Practical and Emotional to me?"

That is the way a Definite Chief Aim goes practical and emotional, which makes it effective. The answer to the question will allow you to determine the scale of goodness of your own personal purpose, and if you will adjust it, or forget it all together and create another one.