Importance of Goal setting - Islamic perspective

1. Set Your Goal in Life
An Islamic Perspective

2. OUR LIFE

3. 
Qur’an on Goal Orientation

4. What is a Goal?
 Agoalisadesiredresult,
 whichisasteptowardsa biggervision,and
 towhichanactionplanisattached.

5. A Goal is Not:
 A wish
 A dream
 An intention or…
 Something you think you
should do

6. Advantages of having a Goal?
Agoalwillgivesyou
• Clarity,
• Direction,
• Motivation &
• Focus

7. Stephen R Covey
“Begin with the end in
mind.” Stephen R Covey

8. “You were born to win,
but to be a winner you
must plan to win, prepare
to win, and expect to
win.” Zig Ziglar

9. Ken Marslew AM, Founder EIE
“Be ready at any moment to
give up what you are for
who you can become.”

10. Importance of Goal setting

11. How the children in the West are brought up?
From the age of 9 to 12, they have a
weekly class called:
“what is your goal in life?”

12. How the children in the West are brought up?
If he said best painter, they see how he paints.
The whole year, they will feed that goal until summer.
school administration will send his parents a memo
Parents sends the student in summer camps
The child comes back the following year wanting to do
specific things. When he is 12 years old, he will have
a clear goal

13. The story of 'Alice in Wonder
Land'.
Alice “what road should I
follow?”
The rabbit then says: “if you
do not know where you’re
going then follow any
road, it won’t make a
difference.

14. SONY Example
'Sony', written its mission.
the Japanese product will become the No1
product in the US markets!
They wrote their mission and hanged it on the walls.
When the board of directors meet,
employee offers a proposal to do something or other,
the President of the Board will look at the mission
and will ask that employee, how is the proposal,
you offered, relevant to the mission?

15. Goal setters : Models
1. Al-Imam Al-Nawawy: he had a noble goal in life, he
wanted all Muslims, to learn Prophets teaching. He
died at the age of 40, and did not even marry.
2. He wrote "Al Arba'een Al Nawawyah" for beginners,
3. Another book "Riyad Al-Salheen" for intermediates
4. and another for specialized scientists and thinkers
"Description of Saheeh Muslim".

16. Goal setters : Models
1. Omar Ibn Abdel-Aziz: he says about himself: "I have
an aspiring soul”
2. To marry Fatema Bint Abdel-Malek, to build a
Muslim family.
3. To be ruler of Medina in order to justly rule
4. To be the Caliph of Muslims in order to rule like the
Emirs of Believers.
5. And today, I aspire to paradise

17. Goal setters : Models
Muhammad Al-Fateh:
he conquered Constantinople when he was just
26 years old,
because he had always dreamed of that goal.

18. Learn to Fail or Fail
to Learn
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a
great man struggling against adversity.”
Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

19. The Path of Failure
• Age 22: Lost job
• Age 23: Defeated for state legislature
• Age 24: Failed in business
• Age 27: Nervous breakdown
• Age 34: Ran for congress and defeated
• Age 39: Defeated again
• Age 46: Ran for senate and defeated
• Age 47: Defeated for nomination for vice president
• Age 50: Defeated again for senate

20. The Path of Failure
Often leads to the greatest success
•Age 51: 16th US President
Abraham Lincoln

21. How to set goals
SMART Principle
 SPECIFIC
 MEASURABLE
 ACHIEVABLE
 REALISTIC
 TIME BOUND

22. SMART
Specific
Do you know
what you
want to
accomplish
with all the
details?
Measurable
Are you able
to assess
your
progress?
Attainable
Is your goal
with in your
reach given
your present
condition?
Relevant
Is your goal
relevant
towards your
purpose in
life?
Time
bound
What is the
deadline for
completion
of your goal

23. Clearly defined in a way that any body can
understand what you want to accomplish
Example,
Bad thought : “I want to write a book”
Good thought: "I want to write a book on time
management that is at least 200 pages in
length.
Specific

24. You need to establish a measuring stick for assessing
the progress towards your goals because if you can't
measure it, you can't manage it.
 Bad Thought: "I want to be rich.“
 Good Thought: "I want to generate Rs 9,00,000 in
income within 5 years from this date by starting a
computer training academy.”
Measurable

25. Attainable
You need to create goals that are realistic for your
situation and skill level
Bad thought: "I want to have my own space channel by
next year".
Good thought: "I want to become a millionaire within 10
years by starting my own personal development
company and doing seminars all over the India.”

26. Relevant
All of us should create a mission statement for ourselves
which is basically our purpose in life and all of our goals
should spawn from that mission statement.
Bad thought: "I want to start a music company that will
sell Pop music albums.”
Good thought: " I want to start a skills development
centre to enable youth build up their career.”

27. Time bound
Every goal that you create must be time‐sensitive in
nature.
Bad thought: "I am going to do my Project."
Good thought: "I am going to finish my Project by 5th May
and I'll achieve this deadline by spending one hour daily
on each subject.”

28. Moran’s 6 steps in goal setting
1) Identify your goals
2) Establish priorities
3) Consider a time-scale
4) Break the goal into steps for action
5) Review your progress
6) Revise your goals if necessary

29. Why people don’t set goals
 Aimless life
 Self ignorance
 Not knowing how to set goals
 Fear of Failure, Rejection & Unknown
 Busy & Unorganized life style
 Over enthusiasm

30. FOUR IMPORTANT
QUALIFICATIONS FOR GOALS
SUCCESS

31. 1. Hope and optimism
Prophet Muhammad was always
optimistic and always had hope.
 Taif torture – Angels of Mountain
 Digging of Khandaq
 Hijrath travel – Suraqa bin Ja’sim

32. 2. Patience.
Once, H. Khabab Ibn Al-Arat came creeping to Prophet
Muhammad and said: "Could you pray for us, we are
desperate, tired and fed up with unbelievers torturing
us", Prophet Muhammad got angry, and his face
became red and said: "In the people before you there
were those who were sawed and never let go of their
religion, I swear that Allah will end this any way, but
you are rushing."

33. 3. No to selfish goals
the goal should not be a selfish self-
centered one, but it should be
directed towards serving the society,
the country and all Humanity. The self-
centered goal is a short term goal.
your life will end and your goals will not.

34. To believe in your goal so strongly and
constantly with all your senses and abilities.
Prophet Muhammad's when he told his uncle:
"I swear my uncle, if they put the sun in my
right hand and the moon in my left hand to
leave the message of Islam, I will not till Allah
upholds it or I die for its sake.”
4. Strong believe in goals

35. Goals & efforts
Exerting great efforts…instead of sleeping and
dreaming.
• Goal without effort = dreams.
• Efforts without goals = waste of time.
• Goal + effort = SUCCESS.

40. TARGET
I WANT TO BECOME A GOOD ISLAMIC TELUGU
SPEAKER
S.
No
Sub Target Source Duration Budget Remarks
1
Learn Telugu
Language
Mr Ahmed 3 months 500 Daily 2 hrs
2
Build up Telugu
vocabulary
English - Telugu
Dictionary
3 months 500 Daily 5 words
3
Read Telugu
Literature
Telugu Islamic
Publication
6 months 2000
List of books
to be attached
4
Learn Speech
delivery
Join Toastmaster
club
6 months 2000
Weekly 3
hours
5 Practice & Rehearsal
JIH internal
gatherings
3 months 1000
Weekly 3
hours
TOTAL TIME AND COST 21 months 6000

41. Organizational Micro Plan