Hearing Stephen Fry comment about not making goals, I completely disagree with. Having goals allows you to work towards something, someone you want to be or something you want to do. I set goals for myself everyday in volleyball, to be better, to hit this angle, to serve this spot perfectly, and it motivates me to work towards being better. I set goals in some of my classes, to get better grades. I study the areas I am weaker in, and become better at those subjects. I use flashcards and memorization skills to better myself. Why wouldn't anyone want to be the best, or better than they are? I constantly see myself becoming better and achieving goals I have set for myself. Having goals allows me to be more motivated to get to where I want to go. I see goals set everywhere, my coach has us write goals we want pre-season, post-season, individual and team goals that we all set and share to work on that practice. Although I can understand about thinking you're not good enough when you set goals you haven't achieved, but maybe your goal was to become ruler of the world in 5 months. That might be a long shot...but the way you go about achieving a big goal like, I want to go to Disneyworld, then you would have small goals, or stepping stones to get you to your large goal. Per say, you want to lose 10 lbs, you would start by, not drinking soda anymore, and then not eating after 8pm. And you would continue on and on until your eating fish and healthy greens and your friends envy your flat tummy.
But what aI;m saying is that I don't agree with Stephen on the subject of goals