Goals Don’t Make Us Happy
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
–Tony Robbins
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I don’t know about that. A lifetime of setting goals and failing to reach them creates one type of person, and a lifetime of setting goals and achieving them creates quite another. Who you become has some bearing on whether you are happy, surely. I think it’s less an either/or and more a experience + goal realization = Happiness.
My good friend Mickey is a life coach, probably as well-versed as Tim there, and he’d have a thing to say about it. It would probably involve a story of his time In the Navy, but it cannot be helped.