GOALS

I was recently asked to write three goals for the next three years. I love a good goal. I love thinking about goals, love dreaming about goals, love working on goals, love moving towards goals, love visioning goals…. I fall in love with my goals.

There is nothing wrong with goals and there is nothing wrong with love. It’s the falling that’s the problem.

When I fall in love with my goals, I also have a tendency to fall out of love with my goals. They and I have a tendency to become rigid, fixed, inflexible. I strive, struggle, grasp and that never feels good.

Then, if I haven’t given up, when I reach my goals, the journey of striving means that I no longer love, appreciate or value my goals and the goal cycle starts again.

So, with my three goals for the next three years, I have decided to surrender. I have decided not to fall in love with my goals but to be flexible, flowing and free from any temptation to strive, struggle or chase. To love my goals, love the journey and love any detours en route.

I have decided to simply be in love, with nowhere and nothing to fall in or out of.

This is a good strategy not only for goals but for life.

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