The moving goalposts

# Chapter 95

When it becomes clear that we can’t reach our goals, the modern response to that situation is to move the goalposts! This is not a solution, this is a mistake. It gives away all our growth opportunities and stretch possibilities and makes us weaker. Those are three direct wounds impacting the people we want to be, or are becoming. This is not the direction nor the result of what you seeking. You set those goals and the finish line where you did originally with intentionality. That is where you wanted to be when done. It was chosen with a purpose and you are cheating yourself if you move that goalpost, that finish line, because of whatever reason.

Instead you are being challenged to move your actions to a higher level. The call is for you to raise the bar of expectation on yourself and reach those original goals, not move the goalposts to an easier place. Change your actions, not the finish line. Change your attitude and focus, not what could be settled for. Change you, not the goal. This is why we set goals in the first place, not so that we will know where we are going, but that we would be challenged to reach for more than we have done before and that we would become more in the process. If we move the goalposts, then all of that is lost. Refuse to move the goalposts, and then dig in deep. Reach for it, work for it, relentlessly pursue it. And then get it!