Sunday, February 14, 2010

All Goals Are Moving Targets

In pursuit of any goal a wall is reached at some point. Even if the original goal is met, that goal has likely changed during the pursuit of it. If it changes to something more difficult or more grand, the goal keeps moving away. If it changes to something less difficult or easier, the original goal has been abandoned. If the goal just changes, again, it's not met.

In any of these cases the goal is not achieved. Even when a goal remains constant during its pursuit somehow, the moment it is reached it is a catalyst for something else...either to do it again or do something different. The tie between that original goal and the new one is a moving of the original goal, even if it didn't exist until the moment the original goal was met. The connection is just a great as if it had changed before being met.

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