There are some people who write that setting goals is defeating and depressing when you don't meet the goals. I don't think that most of us look at goals that way. I have goals that I have wanted to meet every since I was a small child. I have met many of those goals, but not all of them because many of them were just childish conjecture or wishes or I didn't have the natural ability to fill. Like being a great Opera singer. I have no ability to hear music in my head, and my voice is not true or on tune. I tried and tried to be a musician, learned to play the piano, but never was good at it and finally I had to admit that was a goal I wasn't equipped to achieve.
As an adult, I have learned to make more refined goals and use them as a map or guide. When I first came to SFI I set goals that I reasonably thought I could achieve. I didn't achieve them yet, but in the process I did fulfill many other goals that were just as important as those I wrote down. The ones I wrote down were financial goals, and I have left them there to remind myself that is still where I want to go and be. I might not have made the goals in the time frame I set, but I am gradually growing and still working toward those goals. In time I will make them. Do I get discouraged because I am not making them that fast? Yes I do, but that only sets my reserve and helps me to try harder and invent better ways to achieve them.
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There are some people who write that setting goals is defeating and depressing when you don't meet the goals. I don't think that most of us look at goals that way. I have goals that I have wanted to meet every since I was a small child. I have met many of those goals, but not all of them because many of them were just childish conjecture or wishes or I didn't have the natural ability to fill. Like being a great Opera singer. I have no ability to hear music in my head, and my voice is not true or ...more
