The Next Best Thing

I'm the first to admit that I spend a lot of time helping people focus on goals. How to define goals, set goals, and get goals.

But goals are not the be-all and end-all of personal development.

They're just another useful tool we can use to help us get from where were are to where we'd like to be. Once we get to that point, we may find that we don't necessarily need another goal right away.

Maybe not at all.

Just because we don't have a goal doesn't mean we stop growing as people or that we stop developing. In fact, it means just the opposite. --That we've reached a level of awareness where we recognize and understand that we don't have to constantly be jumping through life from one goal to the next, like some clumsy day-adventurer crossing a river by hopping stone-to-stone from one shore to the other.

Instead, we can pass through life with calmly knowing that we're going where we want to go, like a guide who, instead of having to seek out those dry rocks to jump on, calmly fords the river at the right spot because experience tells him to.

So before you decide to take on another goal ask yourself if you're happy with where you're life is taking you. And consider the fact that the next best thing for you may be nothing at all... except being happy with the way things are.