The Weight of Goals

Are you aware that your goals have responsibilities attached to them? A goal is something to hold you accountable. It creates a process, or the steps needed, in order to achieve what you set out to do. More often than not, we aren’t accountable to our goals. Instead, we scapegoat the responsibility by blaming something else.

That diet was too restrictive, I wanted to get fit this year but just hate working out at home, the class times are too rigid or I need a different type of program. Whatever it is, these are excuses we use. We blame that thing, i.e., the diet being too restrictive, as the reason we cannot achieve our goal. It’s nice to skirt the responsibility on to something else, something out of our control, when really, we’re the ones to blame.

In order to achieve a goal worth striving for, you’re going to face adversity. When faced with adversity though, are you going to play the blame game? That’s the "If I just find the right diet I’ll be successful,” attitude. Or are you going to take responsibility for you, your goals, your habits and your choices?

The sooner we recognize that goals take up time, energy and brain power, the sooner we’ll recognize they come with a responsibility, a weight to carry. Without realizing this, you don’t have goals, you have hopes.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain