I took the Goalaholic Quiz at Goal-Free Living.
Your goalaholic score was 57 out of 90 (ideal range is between 15 and 29)
GOALAHOLIC: Perhaps it is time to check yourself into rehab! Goals have a stranglehold on your life. You have elected to put your happiness on hold for the promise of a better tomorrow, but often find that tomorrow never comes. Or, if it does, you are left with the empty realization that “this is not IT”. While your focus and determination may have made you successful, it is also the very thing that has kept you from truly leading a passion-filled and miraculous life. Wondrous opportunities may have surfaced, but your determination to see your goals through to fruition made you blind to them… or worse, had you consciously bypass them. And how many of these goals were important to you at one time, and although your interests have changed, your goals did not? More than likely, you have succumbed to traditional measures of success thrust upon you by family, friends, the media, the “Joneses”. You have stopped thinking and living your own life and have allowed others to dictate it for you. You have chosen success over happiness, tomorrow over today, mediocrity over miraculous.
I do not have “focus and determination” nor am I “successful” but I have a tendency to make goals and break them, make new goals and break them too. It’s an endless cycle. I want to live a simple and creative life but my energy is sapped by a rather physical job at a supermarket. Living off my creativity does require some goals to get there, and maintaining a regular job for now, yet I want to live a goal-free life… *sigh*
