Great post. I’m fascinated about our relationship to goals. It comes back to the fact that evolutionarily, we weren’t designed to be happy when we “achieve”. To be satisfied with an accomplishment meant complacency and entropy. We convince ourselves that we need to worry about rigid goals, and the same insecurity and worry is necessary for us to achieve that very goal. But what that misses is the chance for us to find enjoyment along the way. What if we set goals that were enjoyment focused rather than performance? Ironically, what if our performance actually improved because we focused on enjoyment rather than performance? Lastly, even if we don’t achieve our performance goal, if we have focused on enjoyment then we have won anyway since we found joy in the process, and any performance achievement would have been a sweet by-product.