What do your goals want from you?

This might sound like a strange question because, after all, your goals are a construct from your imagination.

But, once you set or create a goal for yourself, then your goal requires you to change, to be different.

Your goals need you to be the person, or better said, to become the person you need to be to achieve them.

The message you give yourself when you set a goal is, it’s time to change. It’s time for a new, different version of you. And it’s this new version of you that your goal wants or needs from you.

Before I continue, let me clarify something about goals. Goals do not need to be lofty ideals set way in the future. They can be simple, incremental waypoints that you set for yourself to improve any area of your life that’s important to you.

The reason you set a goal is that you’re dissatisfied or discontented in a particular area of your life. Or, you know you can be better or do more. Said another way, you know you have the capacity to change, to be different. And that’s what your goal wants from you.

So, then next time you set a goal for yourself, ask what kind of person your goal needs you to be. And then work towards becoming that person. When you do so, not only will you find yourself moving closer to your goal, but you’ll also see your goal moving closer towards you.

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