NO MORE GOALS

I've been feeling overwhelmed. I’ve been trying to do too many things. Too many things that aren't here and now. So, I’m dropping all my goals. Instead I’m listing 3-6 things for me to do each day.

Planning steps towards a goal quickly becomes too much. My brain ties itself up in shoulds and oughts and attempts to solve problems that really don't need solving right now. It's a path to a very particular type of overwhelm, fatigue, and madness.

I'm sick of a) taking said path, and b) feeling inadequate and less. So no more goals.

Note: There's literature on this phenomenon - notably the recent Tiny Experiments book and writing by the Dilbert guy. Focus on the craft, on the making of the thing rather than the outcome. The outcome, the goal, is merely a byproduct of the doing. And yes, this explanation walks the line of becoming a goal/gaol. The trick (if there is such a thing) lies in the intent, in inhabiting the space of the goalless goal.