My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.
I have so many goals.
My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.
During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.
I never lost sight of my goals. I never stopped thinking I could reach the top.
It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.
My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.
I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics.
My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I'll jot down more goals.