Goals

Having goals, or something to look forward to, really helps me keep going. I like making lists. I have had a notebook containing my bucket list in it since I was seventeen years old and finally decided I wanted to live. Over the years I have taken great pleasure in checking off some of the boxes. Graduating high school. Getting my first kiss. Swimming with a dolphin (that one was particularly exciting). Goals help revamp my energy as well as giving me something to look forward to. Today I started another list with the goal of buying all the books I have checked out from the library/read more than five times over the course of my life (give or take). I am a huge reader, so this is a daunting task. So far I’ve compiled a list of 72 books that fit this criterion and I’m probably missing a bunch. But for some reason I’m really excited about the prospect of seeing this list grow smaller and my collection grow bigger. It gives me something to look forward to, even though this will probably take years to accomplish and I’ll end up getting most (if not all) thoroughly secondhand. Filling up a bunch of bookshelves is a relatively minor goal. But goal setting in general helps keep you focused on moving forward so I highly recommend it, especially for when things get tough.