What is something you want to achieve this year?
A question that is a rewording of the old “what are your new year’s resolutions” which seems to be out of vogue these days. I remember making some hopeful but self-defeating “goals” for the coming year until I finally stopped pretending my commitment to a stated goal would last beyond January, at best!

Now, I would suggest “achieve” is a much harder word—it tends to contain the element of not just planning or trying to do something, but actually DOING something measurable, saying I am going to complete something . . . SO, I guess my answer would be: I want to achieve freedom from measurable goals – I want to focus on each moment fully to be who I want to be – to respond to others in ways that encourage those others to “live,” and – to end each day with that feeling of the satisfaction that “I” have not been the center of my attention.

Challenging? YES! Measurable? NOT really! An achievement? UBETCHA! So, I will revisit this post in a year and see how it feels because that really is the most important achievement – feeling that I have lived up to my expectations!
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