That’s a great question that many ask me. The truth is a goal can be a little like a lottery ticket. From the minute you buy the ticket until the numbers are drawn, you get to have the time of your life imagining how you’re going to spend the millions. From the moment you conceive of your goal, you get to run the film in your head of how great life will be when you realize it.
But then, what if when you do hit your destination, it’s lunchbox letdown? You achieve your goal and it turns out to be a big “so what?”
Reality bite time: It may not be the super high you anticipate, but that’s not reason to throw in the towel. The pay-off for following through is this –you shake up your life. When you go after something, it’s inevitable that you will have different experiences and different conversations. And that makes you more entertaining to yourself, and to others around the dinner table.
Whereas if you’re always all talk but no action, people secretly just want to hit the mute button on you.
Here’s the thing: If you don’t set off after your goal, you don’t have failure, you’ve got status quo. In other words, you are stuck in the same old, same old. Basically, this is how you bore yourself, and others, into a coma.
So yes, maybe when you reach your goal, fireworks do not go off every ten minutes for you…but you have a great story to tell about things that happened to you on the way from there to here. And one goal always leads to another. And so an engaging life story is written, one that you’d actually like to read.
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