Never Fear Failing To Meet Your Goals
October 27th, 2009 by Jarrod
photo credit: James Jordan You never need to fear missing your goals. You never need to be upset about failing to hit your target and here is why.
Failing to meet your goals is your viewpoint.
It is one way of looking at those goals. It is quite valid to choose a different viewpoint, there is no one right viewpoint.
Today I looked at the goals I set for the week, I failed to meet all 3 of them. They were challenging but I have met goals of that difficulty many times before.
So I did some retrospecting on why I failed to meet my goals and looking at my behavior this is what I discovered.
I deliberately choose not to meet those goals.
I have distinct memories of sitting in front of my computer and having a thought flash through my mind saying ‘you need to learn some kanji now in order to meet your goal’. Then I remember choosing to study some videos on life coaching instead.
Does this mean I failed to meet my goals? From a narrow and rigid viewpoint, yes it does.
But if I look deeper I have to ask, why did I choose to study life coaching instead?
The answer is in terms of my life right now, researching that area provides me much more value and happiness than learning japanese.
That is how my beliefs are currently set up.
Based on that I’m glad that I did not meet my goals, what a waste of time that would have been.
Now looking ahead to next week I have to carefully consider what goals I really want and which ones I want most.
Failing to meet your goals is never a bad thing, you are at least one step ahead as you actually set goals.
But if you learned something important about yourself then failing to meet your goals is a good thing!
Meeting goals is always secondary to learning about yourself and the nature of happiness.




