Are You Losing Out By Chasing Your Goals?
See you here in 2013?
We all have a goal in life. Some of us are working hard because we want a four bedroom house, some of us want our start up business to be the next Google, some of us are studying hard so as we can earn 100k a year, some of us are making sacrifices so as we can help others, some of us want to get our website traffic to another level and some of us might just want to find the special someone. We all day dream about these sorts of goals or toss and turn at night figuring out how we can achieve them, they are what keep us going when the roads are icy and the days are short.
My goal as you will guess features going back to Tahiti where I spent lots of time and spending 6 months doing nothing but swimming in that water, lying on the beach and being secure in the knowledge that I never have to work another day in my life. It’s a goal that is a couple of years away at best but one that I am determined to make. Having goals is essential, it is what gets us out of bed in the morning.
We can however get obsessed with goals. They can make us sacrifice quality of life in there here and now. They pressure us. It gets us down that we can’t get there quicker. The goals put pressure on relationships. Our life suffers as we strive to achieve them.
I spoke with 2 successful business men a couple of years ago who had sold companies, one for hundreds of millions and one for a a few billion and both said the same thing…
I just wish I had stopped to take in the journey a little more. The end goal wasn’t as amazing as I had actually though it would be
I might get to the beach and be bored after a week or get hit by a bus on the way to the airport, you might feel just as lonely after moving in to your big house as you were in your small one or you might have all the money in the world from selling your business but nobody to spoil or share it with.
Life is not all about the future, achieving all your goals might not make you as happy as you predicted it would. By all means chase them, and chase them aggressively but sometimes we need to live in the here and now. Do what makes you really happy right now. Today.
