We used to be soccer fans. We even had season tickets to the Minnesota Kicks professional soccer team. In soccer one of the most exciting things is a free kick. One guy gets to kick the ball towards the net while the opposing team’s goalie tries to guess which way to jump to block the ball. From the sidelines, it is sometimes hard to see if the ball went into the net or not. So we wait for the call: goal or no goal?
In life we were taught to set goals and to make specific plans for reaching those goals. I was never very good at this. I always wanted to do whatever I felt like doing not what I “should” be doing.
Now we are retired and traveling across the USA. Our friends say we write our goals in chalk so they can easily be changed. Others write theirs in Jell-O since the plans wriggle around so much, sometimes melting altogether.
I’m still making lots of plans that I’m not very good at following.
Today, I read a blog that said in effect, “Good for me.”
Check it out: http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/#more-6667
TTYL,
Linda
We all have goals. It’s just that we know we might not keep them. By writing goals in chalk or Jell-o, you remove the stress …. and, good for you.
My problem is that I WAS always good about setting my goals and getting to them. Now I’m trying to undue all of that and realize I do have lots of flexibility to get to whatever the goal may be. Definitely – good for you.
I went and read the whole article and it sounds interesting.
Isn’t that kind of what George Lehrer of Tioga & George fame does? His only stated goal is to live in “t-shirt and short pants weather” so he moves a little bit here and a little bit there to achieve his end. But he’s not rigid about it and will sometimes stay in a less optimal place if the view is extraordinary or some such thing.
Goalless could fit with fulltiming if you let it. You really don’t HAVE to be any where or any place at any particular time. But if you do what you enjoy (vis model railroad operating) then you move to places where you can do that and then maximize your pleasure.
The author of the article likes to write so that’s what he does. I like Macintosh computers and that’s what I own and use. I like to program so I develop little applications for my wife who still works. I like databases so that’s what I use to solve most of my wife’s problems.
Hmmm. Maybe I’m already goalless and didn’t know it. 😎 Are you?