For a long time I have been uncomfortable with goals and all the rah rah around trying to achieve them. To be specific the problem is the timeframe. This means that when people don’t achieve goals in their often arbitrarily allotted timframe they become demoralised and give up.  I heard one righteous presenter argue the dogma that ‘a goal is a dream with deadline’. What a great way to kill a dream!! So often, in both my life and others, I have seen dreams arrive long after they were hoped for, and it was the very lack of a deadline that kept them alive long enough to allow their delivery.

And then my daughter and wife have clarified for us all an entirely different problem with goals. I don’t think I can explain it any better than my daughter has on her blog. We teach best what we are grappling with ourselves! Have a read by clicking here