I attended a talk today regarding marriages and how you should try and prepare yourself for that big event. As such, 4 speakers were invited to give their insights. The first speaker introduced himself and backtracked his life with the dates that he got engaged, married, became a dad and went for honeymoon. The amazing thing was that he did all that (except the dad part), within a span of about 4 months after graduation.
Now, don’t get me wrong, but as a university student, budgets are tight. You’re caught in a semi-adulthood kind of phase, where you are expected to pay like an adult for your expenses, yet you’re still a student.
So how the heck did he do all that, immediately after school? Yes the first question came from the audience and that very salvo was that very question. Here was his reply in short:
- He had planned that he would get married about 3 years prior. During that time, he did not even have a girlfriend.
- He earned quite a sum during his undergraduate days and saved about half (about $750) for …. marriage.
What does this all ring? Goal setting. Look up any book on success, and you’ll see this term being used many many times. Cliche you might call it…but here it was, infront of my eyes, a living example of what goal setting can do to you. Here’s some pointers:
- Goals must be specific… yes super specific. You want to teach tuition? How many? What subjects? How much? You need more money? How much and by when?
- You need to know why you’re setting those goals. This man knew why he wanted to get married. And he stuck to it like glue.
- Be committed.
It takes tons of work, but looking at where he is at… not bad, not bad at all.
