Pure Wisdom

CHAPTER 47

Goals

We all set goals. Think about it: if you need to catch a train at 8am you get to the station a couple of minutes before. You may run late and miss the train, but you’d only do that a few times before you got tired of missing it. You’d soon get yourself organised to leave earlier, or aim to catch a later train. That’s goal setting.

We couldn’t survive for long without setting goals. Goals are what keep us going. How often do we hear of someone retiring at sixty and dropping dead within a few months? When we have no purpose in life, no dream or goals, that’s it, game over.

The problem with goals is people get caught up in the product, the end result or outcome, when their focus should be on the process. I’m reminded of the ...