Entry 57 - Lesson on Goals

8/7/19

You must learn the secret of setting goals, but also detaching from the outcome of those goals. What I mean by that is, say you have a goal to graduate college in 4 years. That's a nice goal to have, but say for some reason, unexpected things happen within your life, or you change your major, or a chain of events makes that goal not reachable. You need to be able to release yourself from that and surrender to the present moment. You must realize not hitting that goal doesn't threaten your success.

We run into trouble when we allow our ego to manifest the reaction it's so dying and craving to let manifest. If we fail to accomplish something, even though our true selves know it's not a means to an end, our ego inflames because that failure threatened its survival. However, when we detach from our ego and from the outcome of not reaching the goals we expected to reach, we can move on faster to set the next goal and recover at a quicker rate. It takes time out of our day to mope, complain, be upset, and it also drains our energy when we let our ego manifest the pain it feels. So we must learn the art of detachment. To set goals, but to not let the outcome of the ego become the outward manifestation. 

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