“…most people are accustomed to setting goals and not achieving them. It’s easy to lose focus: something in real life comes up that needs your immediate attention, so all of those future plans become pipe dreams and eventually fade away, leaving us where we were in the beginning.”
This is a recurring theme in my life: unfulfilled dreams and ideas. Unfulfilled because I failed to set goals, take action and move towards those dreams and ideas. Sound familiar? I’ve always wondered if I could have been the athlete who wins the big one but was afraid to fail. Could I have been an “A” student had I only put in the effort and time? We all have dreams, some we have brought to fulfillment and some we have not. The older I get the closer I come to fulfilling more of these dreams.
4 Comments
Earl
Monte, I’ve always liked the following quote, perhaps because it give me an excuse to deviate sometimes. 😉
“Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.” – Doug Larson
Monte Stevens
Yes, thanks for sharing that one with us.
Alan M. Collopy
Monte,
Superb photo. Beautiful.
Alan
Chris Klug
This is really lovely, and so is the quote.