Goals matter.
But, alone, they're not enough.
What matters most about a goal is what you learn from the process of trying to reach it. The plan to get what you want or where you want to be changes, sometimes from day to day, and, as a result, you change. If your plan includes others, you learn from them; they from you. If not, you learn from you.
Tonight, I will plant myself in the back row of one of my favorite movie theaters, The Alamo Drafthouse, to watch, "The Dark Knight" and, no doubt, learn a lot. I'll learn if my preparation and planning to achieve this goal paid off or if I need to revise my plan. Will I come home feeling good and excited about revising my goal list and creating some new things to accomplish or will the Painster bump me from my seat and force me to revise my plan?
Either way, it's a win and the only way to win is to play.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
