All About the Goal

Wow, this is really speaking to me today. Just substitute climbing a mountain with losing 100 pounds and just becoming "somebody" in general, and this man is me. Seriously. Being obsessively goal oriented to the point that only the end result matters. That's me. I know that this is an issue and that it's unhealthy, I've understood this for a while. But I always get stuck on the question of Well, if I'm not focused, how will it happen? Accomplishments don't just fall out of the sky. Goals don't meet you, you have to meet them... This is my quandary. When I'm working toward something, I don't really know how else to be.

“I’ve become much less goal oriented as I’ve grown older. I spent twelve years dreaming about climbing Mt. Everest. It...
Posted by Humans of New York on Tuesday, March 31, 2015