Reality Escapes Her

So, I get the feeling some of you are scratching your heads right now and asking yourselves “Am I going insane, or did she just say that she was setting herself 200 goals?”. My friend Nick replied to my tweet about my new post with: “Goal 200: Stop spreading yourself too thin and focus on 2-3 things you absolutely love ” so I now feel the need to explain the method in my madness. It’s not that much of a big deal really – but here is a little something about me you should probably know, in case you hadn’t already figured it out:

I’m lazy and lack direction.

I also don’t have the attention span to just focus on 2-3 things. I’m not unrealistic with my goals in that I know the chances of me succeeding with them all are very slim. However, it provides me with a range of goals and targets to choose from, so that at the end of the 10 years (whether I’ve achieved them all or not) I can look back and say I’ve succeeded at something. I need to have that choice too – if I were to set myself 2-3 goals, I would feel robbed of any choice, and therefore you could put any time frame on it you like – I would never achieve any of them.

I know, I know, the way my brain works is pretty stupid. I’ve had to learn to live with it though, and work around the sharp edges and fences that seem to exist.

Some of the goals are more important to me than others, and if I strive to achieve them with the knowledge that I also have all those other things to try and achieve as well, I may actually make progress. I know this probably doesn’t make a great deal of sense, but… it’s important to me, and I need a firm boot up the pants.

I doubt this has cleared anything up because I ramble far too much, but I’m looking forward to this challenge.

xx

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 4:31 pm.
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