Goals, and setting goals properly.
This post in particular, I find challenging. We are in a world that loves goals, and loves dreams. It almost seems that modern self-help has taken a page out of the evangelical doctrine of the late 1980's. I'm speaking about a movement that was aptly named the "name it, and claim it" movement. It was a movement that was grounded in the belief that all believers had to do, was name what they wanted, then carry on through life acting like they had already received it. Sound familiar? A person would have to try really hard to avoid modern self-help gurus shouting a derivative of this message from the mountain tops. Modern (as I will call it) goal-theology tells us that as long as something is on our vision board, the center of our consciousness, something we obsess over, and tell everyone about, it will come true. The ironic part is that the former religious doctrine was shot down due to "religion" which is a catch all reason, however the latter gained a lot ...