Achieving Our Mark

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
– Michelangelo Buonarroti

What are you aiming for? Are you aiming high, aiming low, or not really aiming at all?

One of the things we don't often get trained in when growing up is how to set goals. We are, however, often told what our goals are - the big job, the big car, the big house, etc. - but as far as setting our own goals? Not so much.

What are your goals? Do they make you shiver with excitement when you look at them or are they so boring you forget about them as soon as you've written them down?

A few things I've learned about goals along the way:

- Make them big. As a matter of fact, make them so big you're not quite sure how you'll achieve them

- Make them fun. Even the really boring goals, make them fun too

- Make them life changing. Instead of more of the same-old, same-old, try some fantastically-new

There is huge power in setting big goals, amazing things happen. And without setting goals, I think we as human beings tend to amble around bumping into things. And then when we're 90, we wonder why we never really did anything with our lives. Perhaps we just got what we aimed for...

"Careful what you aim for, you just might get it - and if you aim for nothing, you just might get that too."

- Katherine Lachance