Only The Curious

Okay, I’m stepping away from the goal-setting posts for awhile. I’ve been waiting to write until I accomplished something I had said I was going to, but I haven’t accomplished any of the goals I set.

I feel lame that I wrote about my goals, and how important goal setting is, and then didn’t do any of them. But sometimes life just gets in the way. Because goals were the big focus of my last few posts, it became very easy to procrastinate and just not write at all, because “I’ll write next week, once I’ve started following through.”

Now another month has passed, and setting those goals has actually gotten in the way of my writing.

Sometimes when you hit a tough spot, the best thing to do is to set it aside. Instead of trying to push the boulder out of your path, just go around it.

I remember struggling with this in college, when I was taking theater courses. We would all lament that inspiration cannot be forced and would panic when a project was due and the creative juices weren’t flowing. We couldn’t show up to class and say “I wasn’t feeling inspired.” We had to come up with something. So I’m not saying that it’s not about giving up altogether, but finding a different way to go about it.

So I’m going around the goals for the time being, though I guess you could say that my goal is simply to start posting regularly again. And I think that’s enough for now.

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