I have come to believe most of us set our goals for incorrect reasons. We set goals for short term objectives. Most of these objectives concern materialistic wants: money, and physical things. Let's look at a slightly different approach.

Start with deciding what your life should be. Take some time to define your life five years from now. Here are some questions you might ask yourself. 1. What am I feeling? 2. What types of people are around me? 3. What are my surroundings like? 4. What am I doing? 5. Where am I going? 6. Where have I been?

Notice there are no questions dealing with money, or named places, or named people. The answers to these questions will provide you with attitudes, feelings, values, perceptions and other non tangible ideas that make life worth living no matter where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing!

As a child, you may have yearned to play piano professionally, to act on Broadway, to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Perhaps you mentioned your aspirations to someone and were met with laughter or assurance that there was no money in it. You swallowed your creative dreams and satisfied yourself with listening to music on radio, to reading books or watching movies. How often have our creative selves been swept to sidelines, to being observer? We internalize belief that we don’t have what it takes to make it big, and of course we don’t because we have hardly tried. Its time to go for it. There is no proof that you will get rich, famous, or even produce anything worthwhile. Ignoring this urge to create isn’t making it go away. More and more people are heeding call from within themselves to act upon their creative urges. We sense that there is something behind this creative urge, that expressing ourselves creatively may be missing piece to a fulfilled life. Creative expression, whether through mundane means or through art, is worth effort. I have seen difference in my clients’ lives when they are expressing themselves. Here is a list of benefits of expressing creativity that you too, can have. Added up, they can amount to a richer life.

1. Expanded sense of time. Countless artists have discussed experience of timelessness that one encounters in creative zone. Time is limitless when you are in creative ‘zone.’ Strangely enough, when you give time to creative pursuits, you gain time. Who couldn’t use feeling of more time?

2. Freedom. Creativity invites messiness and exploration. Here’s an opportunity to return to that feeling of being a child, to not know, to not be ‘good’, smart, expert.