Setting Goals

Last night I was sitting down watching television and, right in the middle of watching some action packed blockbuster I started to think about the rest of the world. I began to set goals because I was watching a movie.

I thought about what everyone else was doing right there and then. Everyone else in the entire world. This is an interesting game, and if you play it for long enough, it can be quite mind boggling. I visualised old friends and what their lives may be like. Their families and their homes. I saw my teachers, my old work colleagues from my first few jobs. I even took the game to 'Level Three' and fished out people that I had seen at coach stations, in airports. And I thought about these people and their goals.

Then I thought about this statistic I read a little while ago. I can't remember the actual figure, but this statistic was a percentage. And if you know the exact figure, let me know.

This figure represented the number of people who felt depressed on a Sunday night. The people were depressed because it was Sunday night, and they had to go to work the next day.

Last night I was watching Tom Cruise save the world in Mission Impossible 3. It was a good movie, and a perfect piece of escapism. The trouble is, so many of us still need this escapism. I can read all of the self-help books in the world, view all of the sites, and still need to believe that there is a better thing than 'normal life'.

I am still trying hard, and I am not knocking normality, or the people who work hard in average jobs to feed their family, but if I wasn't striving to better myself and to achive the goals I have set, I would find it hard to stay positive. And because you are reading this post, I'm guessing you feel the same way.

The Sunday night blues are all about knowing that you have to go to work tomorrow. I still have to go to work in a real job, but you know what? Someday I won't.

And it actually helps me to feel a little down and in need of escapism on a Sunday, because it makes me realise that I have to keep maintaining my focus and reaching for my goals.

So next Sunday, I shall be giving into it, that down feeling. I shall be reaching for my blockbuster and dropping out of reality for just a little while. And I shall be doing this because it creates a tremendous sense of urgency as regards my goals.

As Tyler Durden said (probably) - 'We are all slowly dying, one minute at a time...'

Enough said?