Chapter 42

You have to set goals or you can’t see where you are aiming. Goals are like the  sights on a gun, they let you know what you are lined up on, where you are pointing, what you are likely to hit. Goals are like those huge metal posts at the end of the sports field in rugby or American football, and yes they are called goalposts, but that is the direction you are moving toward, it is the point you are striving for, it is where you are trying to move your team, it is where your focus stays, it is where your intensity is pointed and you celebrate when you get there, you dance and jump around and generally act a fool because of your happiness.

Without these markers, without these ideas of where you are going, you can’t create a visible (to you) path to see by and know that you are moving in the direction that you really want to go.  Without goals, then you are directionless and maybe even motionless. But even if you are moving, you may just be moving in circles and not actually going anywhere, or sitting on a stationary bike pedaling hard but not going anywhere. Even if you have an audiobook to mentally transport you somewhere else, you still aren’t really going anywhere. That is what it is like to be goalless.

Goals will make the invisible visible, as Tony Robbins said. Goals will light up the path you are walking. Goals will illuminate your aspirations. Goals will make you confident as a GPS does when you are on a trip. Goals will tell you whether or not you are making progress, or sitting stationary.

Write those goals down, they are gold.