If you are like most doctors, you have never stopped to take stock of what you want to be, what you want to do, and what you want to have. Knowing what you really want to do helps motivate you to do it and gives meaning to the way you spend your time. You'll be able to balance the many aspects of your life and reduce unnecessary conflict over how you use your time. In one way or the other, you have been thinking about your lifetime goals almost as long as you have been alive. But thinking about them is different from writing them down.
Unwritten goals are vague, like dreams.
When you start writing your goals down, they get more concrete and specific and help you gain a better perspective. Once committed to paper, you can examine them more closely. They can be refined and changed if necessary. Try writing these goals for yourself. For lifetime goals, write down anything you'd like to have, to do, or like to be during the rest of your lifetime.