One really good reason is so that you have more time to enjoy the things around you. I noticed the clouds as I was driving from a clients and snapped this photo out the window while driving. If you don't examine your life you often miss the little things you take for granted. Goal setting is, for me, all about thinking about what you are doing to ensure you derive maximum benefit from the appropriat effort....while enjoying the unintended consequences that are all around you. 
So where did I go wrong? The looking at things within a framework has helped but I haven't made much progress on inividual goals. The challenge seems to be the perenial one of time management and prioritizing. My days are packed so I have to make sure i am fully focused on each activity and fully engaged. Too much multitasking seems to lead to a sense of movement without accomplishing much worthwhile...It also seems to lead to a fair degree of residual anger when I feel I'm not 'getting' to things I know I need to get done. So tomorrow will be a day of focus and ensuring I can create focus and balance.
As I reflect on what is important to me I have decided that their are four key pillars to any framework for Personal Life Rules.
1 . Strengthen you Will - if your will is weak you will accomplish nothing.
2. Perception - you need to see the world around you clearly, as well as yourself, as they really are.
3. Strive - you need to strive for goals beyond your current abilities or comfort zone to keep yourself growing even if the goals are inner goals.
4. Be Present - we live in the moment so you need to enjoy each moment as it comes, to the fullest...But don't internalize the stresses of others or the environment
The end of these four principals for me is a greater degree of personal happiness and fufillment. The challenge will be bringing these principals to each area of my life and applying them effectively. So...Let's look at my day I am on the way to my primary job.... Tasks for today and normal barriers
Why do we keep making the same mistakes in life. One of the reasons, I suspect, is that we are very busy and have many distractions. This means that when faced with a new task we have a tendency to 'reinvent the wheel' each time. Sure we bring some of our past learnings to the table but I think this is often more accident than design. Sure, one can argue, that certain manual skills lend themselves to using prior learnings and skills...Changing a cars brakes for example. However, the vast majority of human interactions don't fit this paradigm . Relationships, our interactions at work all happen in a steady stream and don't lend themselves to reflection. Even when we do reflect we don't often leverage that learning. We think...'I should do x in future...' but because when the future situation arises we often react immediately we fail to leverage our experience to the fullest. We need a paradigm to approach life, just like we have to approach manual tasks we don't do everyday. To this end I am going to agree on a framework for reflecting and documenting my life and to see if I can more effectively leverage my own learnings and experience.
