3 Smart Goals to Succeed in Your Lifetime: Goal Examples

Updated on 8/16/24

Looking for a set of smart goal examples, the type of smart goals that will set you up for success? Awesome.

That is the first step to accomplishing goals: setting them.

There are many types of goals: relationship goals, family, health goals such as a healthy heart, home-buying and career goals. There are goals for everything you can think of.

That’s a whole lot of goals. But that begs: are they the right kind?

What is the right type of goal?

Who defines their worthiness, and how do you know if they are good enough?

Let’s dive into it.

Here are three classes of smart goals vital for prosperity and success.

1. The High Goal of Impact

The premise of making goals boils down to metaphysics and how we identify with happiness and measure success.

First, what is a goal?

A goal is the result of overcoming obstacles to fulfil some desire.

That desire may be something which is meaningful to you, but not to other people, like purchasing a vehicle, or adopting not one, nor three, but seven kittens.

It could also be a lusting desire from deep within you, like asking your high school sweetheart on a date, or wanting to raise children.

There are also the types of desires for which you can tell others you have, but that no one will ever ‘feel’ or desire the way you do. These include things like your need to be a leader and leave an impact on the planet long after you are gone. Or your ambition to spread the word of your religion.

Your goals affect not only you, but the world around you, no matter how insignificant some goals may seem.

They each have a purpose, and fit into a broader category, existing as either micro or macro drive factors to fulfill your greatest life’s desire.

Personally, my greatest desire is to leave some impact. The form I choose to do that, currently, is through writing. But that may change. And the impact I want to make is not yet clearly defined, but, that’s OK.

Our desires and methods of execution are always molding and changing form as we grow: mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Your greatest desire in life ties into this section: The High Goal of Impact.

The High Goal of Impact is your end-game goal—the legacy for which the future will remember you by, through science, medicine, religion, economics, or whatever that legacy is.

Albert Einstein’s High Goal of Impact was to understand and explain the universe. His method of execution was physics. This goal came from deep within him, through his passions, his personality, his knowledge, and his pure curiosity of the world.

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein

We can see through Einstein’s thoughts and work that these are the questions which drove his obsessive pursuits in life. To observe that, in his mind, in his time, only he had the psychological variables necessary to find the answers for the questions he needed to solve.

Quite often, being obsessive of your High Goal of Impact is a sign that it is surely just that—your High Goal of Impact, your destiny.

Never lose sight of it.

And there is nothing wrong with being obsessive. Embrace it. For this trait is what separates you from the rest. This goal is what identifies you as, well, you.

Take responsibility of the fact that, only you can achieve this higher goal.

Our world needs you, and the progression of humanity is relying on you to take action.

2. The Smart Goals of Health

We’ve just set in stone the idea of the High Goal of Impact—the big goal which sets you apart from the world.

It will take you a lifetime, or longer, to achieve that goal. So, hang tight. It’s going to be a long ride.

In order to reach the finish line, you need to be healthy. And you must maintain not only good health for your own well-being, but so that you can care for and ensure the health of others around you.

Our species won’t survive without each other.

We must rely on the Smart Goals of Health—the goals to not only understand the importance of our physical well-being, healthy relationships, and grounded spirituality, but to act on them.

These goals last a lifetime, and they should be set on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis.

Unlike the High Goal of Impact category, which has only one, two, maybe three goals, the Smart Goals of Health category has many.

Smart Goals to set under the Smart Goals of Health include:

• Drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day (1).
• Managing symptoms of anxiety
• Getting a good education, so you can contribute substantially to the economy, to science, and so you can discover new ideas and innovate technology.
• Treating others with respect, because it promotes camaraderie and confidence.
• Having a healthy marriage and home life.
• Setting smart goals.
• Paying off your debts.
• Forgiving those who have wronged you.
• Donating to those of less fortune and giving your time to help great causes.
• Eating powerful foods that boost your mood.
• Believing in some greater purpose for humanity, other than existing simply to prolong existence. A species as advanced as us is no longer existing just to exist. We are existing to separate ourselves from the logical plane of nature, to become the authors of the flow of a naturally unfolding universe.

These are all very important goals to have, and you must always be actively seeking them.

Even if you lose sight of your High Goal of Impact, in order to bounce back and gain control of a healthy outlook in life, you must at least be pursuing the Smart Goals of Health.

Every day when you wake up, ask, “What can I do today that will help make life easier tomorrow.”

3. The Relevant Goals of Action

Stressing because after getting this far you’ve realized you don’t really have any goals? It’s OK.

You have already succeeded in completing one goal under the Smart Goals of Health: to actively seek guidance on improving yourself.

This is a huge step, so congratulations!

Expanding on new ideas is one of the greatest things you can do in life. It’s also a key component to binding all your goals into a solid foundation.

The Relevant Goals of Action are (since we’re talking about Einstein) metaphorically, the quantum scales of setting and pursuing goals. They are the many actions you make in every moment of your life which have an effect on essentially, everything.

Reading this article is one of those actions. It isn’t necessarily a ‘goal’ in the sense of being something you planned. Rather, it is a micro action you executed which supported your next phase in life.

That step might be that you want to open a barber shop, but you aren’t sure if it’s the right move for you.

Or that you want to write a book, but you lack the confidence to do it. Or maybe you don’t know why you want to write, just that you feel compelled to.

Feeling compelled to do something is a strong indicator that you should consider it. If it has been tucked away in your conscience for months, even years, then it is certainly meant to be.

Make it a goal to accomplish that thing, whatever it is.

The longer you let that compelling feeling marinate, the more powerful your drive will become.

Every action you take will make that feeling—the need to pursue that thing, more prominent until, eventually, it consumes you.

You won’t be able to brush your teeth, load the napkin container, or gas your car without this new goal on your mind.

If you know what that thing is, then it’s time you take action, now, and fast.

Research everything you can about that thing, make a timeline, set markers for deadlines, join communities of people who have already succeeded at it, and keep at it.

You will get there, it just takes time, the want and need, and perseverance.

Conclusion

Remember, life is not a competition, it’s a place of eternal growth. Don’t assume others have better goals than you, because assuming things destroys the world.

Your goals are not insignificant, no matter what anyone says. They are your own goals, and only you know the impact for which the world will know you by.

A quick recap of the topics we went over to set smart goals:

1. The High Goal of Impact: your end-game goal—the legacy for which the future will remember you by, through science, medicine, religion, economics, or whichever field that legacy is associated.
2. The Smart Goals of Health: the goals to not only understand the importance of your physical well-being, healthy relationships, and grounded spirituality, but to act on them.
3. The Relevant Goals of Action: the many actions you make in every moment of your life which influence everyone and everything, both now, and in the future.

That’s all folks! Thanks for reading.

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