indiscriminate goal-making can be quite futile. I have a friend who talks about his goals, and has written them down. But all I hear about what he's actually doing involves things that are acting upon him, being victimized by circumstance and lacking progress because of it. He expects the goals to sort of happen TO him, after doing nothing but the same thing he's always done.

I classify everyone into 2 types: consumers and producers. It goes down to the intangibles. The consumers are constantly thinking about their own lives, directing thoughts inward, wondering how the world could afflict them so. Producers don't enjoy discussing the petty events of their lives with others, they would rather share ideas, knowing any personal thing they could complain about, is already had by everyone. Producers are always extracting more and more energy from within. They realize that the potency of the human experience is derived from within the soul; that anything one can rely on and utilize for practical action is in raw abundance internally. They don't see progress and success as something that is given, it's created.

Anyway my point is: a goal shouldn't be considered such unless it takes on a viable consciousness. It needs to be on the forefront of thoughts, not merely a hope that is undernourished due to latency, expecting to be made manifest sometime in the future. A goal needs to be considered imminent, even existent already, and should be craved, hungered for. THat is a formula for accomplishment. If your goal doesn't take the form of a consuming, demanding entity, it will be difficult for it to materialize. I like to keep reminders of goals visibly displayed around me, such as pictures of Europe (although I've been twice and the memory of it is so pervasive and perpetual, I really don't need visible reminders).

Other goals of mine include: acquiring a botany degree and a literature degree (or equivalent), to expand my grow into a quasi grow-room situation, to travel to my place of upbringing 4 times a year, to take my kids on a trip to the east coast to tour university campuses when they're 10 and 12, a house that's energy independent, etc.