Goals

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No matter how much we are hoping for it to be so ~ our paths through life are never a straight line. As it turns out, our paths aren’t even always leading us to our goals; or so it seems anyway… With every step we are taking along our paths, sometimes it seems we are moving on toward some kind of goal; yet the goal is unclear. And the further we are moving along that path; the more we may get an outline of the goal we are approaching…

It seems that reaching our goals not always has to do with decisions on our part as to what we want to accomplish, followed by a step by step process of planning, plotting and reaching the goal we have set for ourselves ~ sometimes it is more about accepting the goal that life is pushing us to. And to realize that achieving this goal is just as great an accomplishment as the goal we had planned for would have been.

This is something that ~ as often is the case in life ~ sounds more logical and easier than it turns out to be.

After all, we had carefully chosen our direction and set our goals. We had planned our steps toward that goal. And now suddenly something beyond our control has changed our direction; has changed our paths ~ has changed the goal. Changed it into a new goal that we may not even perceive as something that is important in our lives.

The thing is that whenever this happens to us there always will be decision points ~ even on that unfamiliar path ~ where we can choose to move on toward this new goal; or turn around and focus once again on the goal we had set for ourselves. It is our free will choice to do that; and looking at it from a more Universal perspective there doesn’t really seem to be a right or a wrong decision to make.

On the other hand our personal value system may well dictate which direction we will choose.
And we may choose for that direction we feel we ‘have to choose’ for whatever the reason. We will likely do a good job and achieve what we have set out to do…

Yet we may not find the same fulfillment in this achievement as we might have felt reaching the goal we had set for ourselves in the first place as we may always feel we have failed in reaching the original goal we had set for ourselves.

The only way ~ it seems ~ to truly feel good about our choices and the goals we will subsequently reach is to embrace them. To accept them. To fully and faithfully devote ourselves to that which life itself has brought on our paths…

And the funny thing is ~ they will almost always bring us more than we could ever have dreamed…
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