Going places!

Chapter 99

Goals are fuel to keep you going. Markers to help you see and experience progress in a visceral sense. These are the signposts of progress that lets you know you are going in the intended direction. This is how you know you are actually moving at all. You can measure them and mark them off your list each day - a done check mark. A sense of accomplishment, a feeling of getting stuff done, success in finishing something and ready now to move on to something new.

Your furnace will never run out of fuel with a steady stream of goals. It will help you have clarity even in the most chaotic context or situation. Goals provide structure to your intentions and desires and wants. It helps you get where you want to go. They can become the mode of transportation to your next destination. You can walk, run, ride or fly, depending on what you are trying to accomplish and what mode and speed and effort you choose. Goals can be shaped so that they are feeding into your success and progress. And progress is the real issue here in my opinion. Success is something other. Progress is mile-markers moving past, meaning that you will get somewhere eventually. Success means that you have arrived somewhere. 

I write this as a follow up from yesterday’s chapter, in that the journey itself is the prize. But without goals, the journey generally doesn’t start for many people. Couch-potato TV-addicts are a prime example. News-addictions are another example. Leisure enthusiasts can become an example quickly. Don’t be one of these. Instead apply steady effort and pursuit of your intended direction. This will really take you places.