I Have Failed
I do not like to give up. Failure is something I do not like to admit.
Today, I will admit something I usually would never come out and say directly. I have failed. This morning, while looking at past blog posts, I came across one entitled, “52 Books”. At the beginning of this year, I made a goal to read one book per week for the entire year. 52 books. Originally, when I made this goal I thought to myself “oh this will be easy”. It was easy at the beginning. I was motivated and treated it like a competition – determined to win. 6 weeks in, I burnt out. I feeling obligated to read, and reading became more of a punishment. On week 7, I quit. From week 6 until today, I have only managed to read one book! Terrible! If I had kept up my pace of the first 2 months, I would be at 23 books today; instead I am 17 books short of my original goal. Today, I realized that even if I can’t attain the original goal, it was a stupid decision to just quit. To give up. On my walk today, I bought two new books. An hour ago, I just started reading, Small is The New Big, by Seth Godin which inspired this post. Reminiscing about my past goal made me ponder a few things: Is it better to strive for my original goal, by reading more over the summer? Or to simply read a book each week from here on out?Is it better to set attainable or to set goals that may seem difficult to reach?
What do you think?
