I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.
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Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.
Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.
I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.
I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.
It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.
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