The mental attitude you have will determine the goals you set. And the goals you set more than anything else will determine your priorities and where you will land up in life.
This is true, whether it’s a spiritual goal, a personal goal, a professional goal or a family goal. It makes no difference.
Sigmund Freud said that goals are very dangerous, because if you set goals and then don’t make them, you’ll exercise failure. This will annihilate your self-respect and you will become a very sick and neurotic person. Freud was basically anti-goal.
But Dr.Viktor Frankl from Vienna, Austria, says that goals are great. Indeed, it can be quite disastrous if you set a goal and don’t make it and have a negative attitude towards it. But not reaching your goal isn’t as dangerous as not having a goal.
He likes to point to the Old Testament story of how God always kept a pillar of fire in front of the people at night and a cloud by day to pull the people forward. That’s what goals do to us. You never catch up with the cloud. You never catch up with the fire. And the is must never catch up with the ought. If you set a goal and then reach it and can’t expand it, you start dying.
