Keep ’em goals up
Setting goals and achieving them takes a certain drive and consistency that easily escapes the best of us.
I came across a quote by Benjamin Mays that got me thinking. It read “the tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”
Understanding your goals is just as attainable as they are not, is the fine line that separates one from falling off the edge. Steadfast as your efforts may seem, they can just as easily bear no fruit and for the sake of mental health, one must find peace with that.
I’ll give you an instance. Myself.
I’m one of those 21st-century individualistic types that feel I have a right to all the treasures the world has to offer. I’m a creative writer, free thinker (as much as my mind allows), designer and tech enthusiast.
Recently I’ve battled with my slow learning curve towards a programming course I decided to take on. I’ve blamed everything and everyone around me for it, including myself. In my self-loathing, I failed to realize that even though the three-month goal I set for myself hasn’t actualized, I have leveled up in so many other areas I didn’t even notice – until someone pointed it out to me.
A lot of the time, I fall short of my own expectations and never fail to give myself a proper scolding, or at least mope about it. But these days, I find that I pick myself up soon after – not letting my shortcomings define me, but the goals I set for myself.
A concept I have come to understand is that sometimes, it’s okay to fall – as long as you don’t stay down. You only fail when you stop making goals.
So bottom line? Accept your shortcomings, learn from them and keep making goals, because as much as you have goals you may not achieve, you have many more that you will.
