I was painting yesterday and listening to "What Would Napoleon Hill Do?" I wasn't listening intently, because I had to keep running in and out to get things and then people kept interrupting me, so I decided I'd listen 'lightly' and more intently later.
Well, as he was talking I started thinking about my goals and why all my plans have always failed in the past. I realized that I have always set up goals using someone else's standards. For example, the 'world' says that I must weigh xxx and make a certain amount of money and look a certain way, but you know what? It's not what I want.
I feel like I am the only woman I know who does not aspire to run a company! All my friends seem to be going to school to get big degrees (masters and phd) and I just got my bachelors, but you know what? I don't want to continue on to a masters. I want to learn other things, but I have always felt that wasn't acceptable (more in my sub conscious then anything).
I felt like I had to have bigger and better goals. Really, I just want to get married and be a mom. I do want a job, but I want a job teaching my kickboxing (which doesn't pay well, but is still what I want).
In the cd, he talked about setting goals that you really believe in and I don't think I ever really believed in my goals because they weren't really what I wanted to do. So, I have a lot of revising to do, and thinking, about how to go about this.
Ok, I have more in my head but I gotta go!
TTYL!
Totally agree. We can never be happy if we reach for other people's dreams--they have to be our own. I've learned this for myself as well. In regards to your running too--for me, I have NO desire to run a marathon at this point in my life, although lots of other people in my circle are doing it. For me doing a triathlon is my goal and makes me happy. Focus on what makes you happy and go for it--you'll never be wrong. :)
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