Go on Amazon and do a search for books on financial success and you’ll find books about how to be a millionaire with no cash in your pocket now. How to create passive income to be a millionaire. How to invest to become a millionaire. How to do (fill in the blank) in order to become a millionaire. It’s as if the only possible way to be a financial success is to be a millionaire.
Or maybe you do a search on getting in shape. You’ll get page upon page about books that will help you create rock hard abs. 90 days to a six-pack. Maybe even books on how to create an 8-pack because a 6-pack just isn’t fit enough. Books on how to create 20 inch biceps with no equipment in your home. Bodyweight exercise books promising to give you the physique of a champion, the champion being Schwarzenegger. You’ll get muscles on top of your muscles.
You can even find books on how to super charge your mind. A book that will teach you how to become a speed reader so you can finish a new book every day. You might be more partial to books that will teach you another language in 3 months. How to become a human calculator.
These books all have one thing in common. They tell you what your goal should be in advance. There’s a preconceived notion that if you want to improve your health and fitness you must be going for the body of a greek god. Or if you’re looking for financial success the true and only goal is to become a millionaire. Unless of course you’re a high performer, in which case you’re shooting straight for billionaire or bust. When it comes to improving your mind, obviously your brain needs to be able to learn and retain things on a level on par with The Matrix.
These are the goals that society has decided are proper goals for each endeavor. But they aren’t necessarily your goals. Don’t get me wrong, these goals are perfectly good goals to have. That’s if, of course, you want them to be your goals.
Take me for example. This may come across as financial heresy, but I just don’t want to be a millionaire. What I want to do with my life doesn’t require me to have that level of cash. My goal is simple. I want to be able to get a nice class B RV and spend my life just touring North America. Who knows, I might even decide to try South America as well. I don’t need to be a millionaire for that. I don’t even need to be a quarter millionaire for it. There’s nothing wrong with my goal. I’m not aiming low. I’m not settling. I just don’t see the need to own a huge mansion with several high-end sports cars out front. I don’t desire that.
Now for the fitness goals, yeah I’d actually like to have bulging biceps, tremendous traps, and 6-pack abs. However your goal may be different. To you, being able to walk upstairs without needing a nap afterwards could be sufficiently fit. You might not be interested in being able to rip that back of your shirts apart with your super broad lats. Instead you just want to be able to sit in an airplane seat comfortably for a cross-country flight.
I’d like to learn another langauge or two. I would definitely love to improve my reading speed so I can take in that many more books. But I don’t particularly care if I can do Calculus in my head. To you a great working brain might entail not being foggy all the time. It might be having the ability to crush anyone in a game of chess. Or something altogether different from anything I’d imagine.
What’s important to remember in all this is your goals need to be your goals. Not what society deems proper goals. If your dream life is to earn $50,000 a year, the fact that other’s might respond “That’s all?” isn’t a negative reflection on your goal. It just means it clearly isn’t their goal. Which is fine because they aren’t walking your path, you are. You don’t need to justify your goals to anyone other than yourself. If you have buy in on your goals you’ll accomplish them. That’s why they have to be yours. Because if you’re chasing society’s goals you just don’t have the buy in, which means you won’t have the success.
Be happy with your goals. Confident in your goals. And most importantly, have a steadfast faith that because they are your goals, and you’re truly worthy of attaining them, you’ll reach that destination. I wish you the best of luck with your goals. Have a great day.
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