Goals

The books keep telling me I need goals.

I sold two companies and achieved my goals. Hopefully that doesn’t come off as a bragging thing. Just a fact. This account is basically. anonymous after all — and I’ve been very hard on myself throughout the articles written here.

It’s telling that all of my goals were wrapped up in my professional life. Build this company, get revenue to this level, release these features in a product, get this many logos, get this many leads in the funnel, keep margins at this level, sell for 6x. Yup, I had all the goals.

I don’t have those kinds of goals any more. I mean I guess at some point I really should think about what I want to do with my career again, but there’s no rush. Now, the goals are much more personal and about self-growth. It is my privilege to be able to make a lot of progress on me during a global pandemic when so many are out of work or living in fear.

I want to be mindful of that but also make goals and stay on track for myself. My goals are now much more difficult to quantify, much squishier than I might have been comfortable with in the past.

I will be less anxious and avoidant in relationships with friends and romantic acquaintances. I guess I could try and quantify “I will divulge at least 3 feelings” or something like that. But then I would just do that and possibly not mean it…