DON’T LET YOUR GOALS BE YOUR GOALS!!!

Yogi Berra earned 10 world series rings as a player and 3 as a coach.

Wilma Rudolph won 3 Olympic gold medals.

Jack Nicklaus won 115 professional golf tournaments.

Were these their goals?  Perhaps. 

Did they accomplish these feats BECAUSE they set them as goals?  I believe that they did not.  To achieve these goals, each of these athletes spent hours, months, years on the baseball diamond, running track, and golf course, respectively.

I think they did it because they ENJOYED doing it – the rings, medals, and trophies were by-products of the love of their sport and the hours they spent enjoying it.

If Yogi had said “I want to win the world series,” but dreaded playing baseball, he never would have made it to the majors, let alone win championships.

Don’t walk because you want to get thinner, walk because you love it.  If you don’t love it, find a place to walk that you actually do love, or walk with  someone you love to spend time with.  If you still don’t love it, get a bike, or swim, or play tennis.  When you find a physical activity you actually enjoy doing, the pounds will come off without you even thinking about it.

Same goes with dieting.  If you hate a diet you’re trying, it won’t work.  Find healthy foods, portions, and eating patterns that you actually look forward to, and you’ll get healthier automatically, without you even thinking about it.

Same goes with just about everything else in this world.  Don’t work hard for a promotion.  Enjoy what you do, and the promotions will come.  Don’t work on your marriage, enjoy it, and every little problem will work itself out.

Have goals if you wish, but don’t let them drive you, just check up on them from time to time, in between enjoying your activities, your diet, your life.

p.s.  I enjoyed writing this.

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