Time for a Rewrite?

I was talking with one of the women in WIN BIG the other day and asked her about her progress towards achieving her goals. She mentioned that she did in fact plan a trip (one of her goals), but it wasn't the trip she originally talked about planning. During the planning process she realized what she truly wanted to get out of taking a trip and visiting a tropical time share just wasn't it. What she wanted was to reconnect with family on the east coast.

This interaction made me realize that we can discover a lot about ourselves and our true desires through the pursuit of achieving goals. How many times do we set goals around things that we actually think we want to achieve? How many times are those goals not in alignment with what we truly want?

I think it is time to review the goals we set at the beginning of the year (if you haven't set goals yet, there is no better time than the present!). What is it that you are truly seeking to achieve with the goals you set? Do you have the right goals in place? Are your goals helping you move closer to your vision?

I always thought of goals as being set in stone. Once I wrote them down that was it. I would either achieve them or not, end of story. I am starting to open up to the idea that goals can't be so black and white. Going back to the interaction I described above, did this woman achieve her goal?...No. Did this woman achieve something greater than her original goal?...Probably.

I think it is ok to rewrite and edit goals based on new life circumstances, new learnings about yourself and new desires. Just be sure to check in with yourself to make sure you are not rewriting a goal because you are giving up on the pursuit of that original goal.