03 Jan It’s OK if you know where you’re going; it’s also OK if you don’t
We’re still in early January so I’m guessing some or many of you are still thinking about your New Year Resolutions and/or goals for the year.
Do you want more happiness? Do you want to be healthier? Are you aiming to achieve some specific type of success?
If you know the answers to these (or other, similar) questions then that’s fantastic. If you know what you want to achieve this year that really is great and I hope you’ll stick around because I’m sure some of my future posts will provide tips that might be helpful.
At the same time, however, I’m pretty sure there are some of you who’ve no idea what you want to achieve in the next 12 months. If that’s you, if you don’t have any specific goals for this year (yet) don’t worry, because that’s also great!
Really? How so?
Well, at least in the short term, you have a great opportunity to embrace uncertainty, to foster curiosity and to look forward to learning and discovery. All of these are, in my humble opinion, vitally important for happiness and wellbeing, because all of these are realities we’ll all have to face at some point in our lives.
There’s nothing wrong at all with having a clear sense of direction and with setting and working towards meaningful goals; in fact, these are great things to do. But there’s also potentially much to be gained by facing up to the cold hard realities of … no knowing, of being lost, of not having a clue. Accept this and you may well find a happiness you’d never imagined!