When it's okay to have no goals
It's a new year. I guess that means it's time to set some goals and resolutions for my life. Or at least for the next couple of weeks, which is how long most of us remember said goals. Either way it seemed appropriate to share some things that have been on my mind when it comes to goals. I've never been incredibly skilled at setting goals. I tend to either set them impossibly high, which defeats the purpose, or unnecessarily low, which also defeats the purpose. I realize the potential of goals to help us stretch ourselves to grow and improve, I'm just really bad at finding the right balance between shooting for the moon and hitting the cowpie right in front of me. So I've done some pondering thinking about what it means to have goals. I think in it's simplest form a goal is something we want; a desired outcome that carries with it an set of actions necessary to be acheived. Most of us are really good at defining the outcome but really bad at...