This quote from the often considered legend Tony Robbins has been one that has stuck with me for a long time. See I always thought without a goal you couldn’t achieve anything. Fast forward, and after many case by case examples I have come to find out thats not always true.

Now before you write this off as a waste of time thinking I am going to be bashing the time tested goal setting method, Im not. Setting goals is a valuable tool in many cases, but in many cases it’s also setting yourself up to be left disappointed.

Take for example my first marathon. My then girlfriend (now wife) and I decided to run a marathon together, yes heavily influenced by my go-getter mentality, later of which proved to be slightly overly optimistic. We found a training plan, mapped it out, and stuck to our training day in and day out for 6 long grueling months. There were challenges, struggles, good runs and bad. But we pushed through, knowing that we had the end goal of completing our first marathon together in mind. Spoiler alert, we did complete the marathon AND got engaged at the finish line insert AWWWW noises here. But the truth is at the end of the race, once all the dust settled, I felt lost. The thing I never took into account was life after the goal. What was I training for now? We had a wedding to plan, but outside of that, my identity over the past 6 months had vastly become training to run this marathon.

The purpose of that story is, I think often times we get so focused on the goal and getting to the finish line that we forget what comes next. Sometimes leaving us feel worse than when we started.

Im not saying don’t set goals, in fact, chase the biggest ones you can think of! But be mindful of what comes next, because if the goal becomes your identity and not the process, you may just find yourself feeling lost at the end of what was supposed to make you feel found. Take the time to set a post goal, goal. What do you want to go after when you complete this thing, why are you completing this thing in the first place. Don’t forget to write the next chapter, because this goal likely isn’t your final one.

One of my favorite writers Sahil words this perfectly. Pursue more, but enjoy the simple things. Finding balance in both will lead you further than either on its own. Give him a follow, you won’t regret it.

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