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If the human mind was simple enough to understand,

we'd be too simple to understand it. (Emerson Pugh)

this is not reality

November 2, 2008

Goals

I’ve been thinking, amongst other things, a little about goals. I’ve been thinking about what I want. In life, in general terms, in specific terms. Sometimes when my thoughts have been meandering around a topic for a while, I’ll have a little thought bubble burst into my head like some kind of mini epiphany. As I pulled into my street on the way home from work, this was what popped into my head: you’re probably not going to get anything you want unless you specifically state it.

Now, this may seem blindingly obvious to some people - the goal-focused people who have pretty much always known what they want and how to strive towards it. That’s never been me. I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I finished school. I didn’t have a job in mind when I finished uni (so much so that I put it off for another year and did an honours year). It’s not as though I haven’t achieved things in life to date because I’ve done plenty well in pretty much everything I’ve undertaken; there’s just few and far between things that I’ve said to myself, “Right-o! This is it, this is what I want and this is how I’m going to get there!” And when I have set and achieved a goal (the one thing that springs to mind is weight loss, when I lost ~30kg in ‘04/‘05), the steps to get there and end point have been all a little wishy-washy, and have been more about what I don’t want rather than what I do want.

All this thinking stems from a work/life balance seminar I took a few weeks ago. How can you achieve work/life balance (or any kind of life balance for that matter), if you’re not clear on what it is you want out of life?

This is still a work in progress, and there’s likely more to come on this topic.

jen at 1:00 pm

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