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clevermanka) wrote2009-01-22 10:30 am
clevermanka) wrote2009-01-22 10:30 am
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Goal!
Good class discussion yesterday, people. Thanks, all, for participating! Seriously, it was wonderful to get so many points of view and ideas. Hearing how other people perceive goals as well as thoughts on why I might have such difficulty understanding the concept was helpful and revelatory.
It basically comes down to two main points:
1. Putting thoughts and concepts into words does not come easily to me. It's a learned skill, and a recently learned skill at that. So if goals are personal desires given a definition that is understandable and communicable to other people, it's no wonder I was having a difficult time with the concept. I rarely, if ever, articulate my personal desires--even to myself. I just know/feel it. My brain does not naturally communicate with words at any level higher than basic communication. Talking about feelings = very hard for me. Not hard because I'm embarrassed or shy. Hard because, although I might have the intellectual vocabulary, it's difficult to assign those words to emotional senses. So while I have no problem talking about task/project "goals" (fitness-, art-, sewing-, or other-wise related stuff) it's completely foreign for me to talk about internal desires (being content, happy) or even visualizing those ... goals ... (it's still difficult for me to internalize such things as "Goals") as something other than just a vague feeling buried in my brain.
2. I don't need to assign or articulate goals any differently than I've been doing all my life. I feel like I'm (in general) a fairly well-adjusted being and I'm (in general) happy with life. However, adding an understanding of the concept of Goals can help me understand a different way to approach life. And looking at something from another's point of view has, I think, hurt very few people in history.
Some key phrases from yesterday that I'm going to try to incorporate, at least in my general understanding of the term goal, if not in my actual vocabulary:
Areas in which I want to achieve results
Framework and focus for energy
Directed motivation
In a remarkable happenstance of "just-when-I-needed-it", please take a moment to read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pointoforigin's post about a possible meaning of life. It's beautiful. And perfect.
It basically comes down to two main points:
1. Putting thoughts and concepts into words does not come easily to me. It's a learned skill, and a recently learned skill at that. So if goals are personal desires given a definition that is understandable and communicable to other people, it's no wonder I was having a difficult time with the concept. I rarely, if ever, articulate my personal desires--even to myself. I just know/feel it. My brain does not naturally communicate with words at any level higher than basic communication. Talking about feelings = very hard for me. Not hard because I'm embarrassed or shy. Hard because, although I might have the intellectual vocabulary, it's difficult to assign those words to emotional senses. So while I have no problem talking about task/project "goals" (fitness-, art-, sewing-, or other-wise related stuff) it's completely foreign for me to talk about internal desires (being content, happy) or even visualizing those ... goals ... (it's still difficult for me to internalize such things as "Goals") as something other than just a vague feeling buried in my brain.
2. I don't need to assign or articulate goals any differently than I've been doing all my life. I feel like I'm (in general) a fairly well-adjusted being and I'm (in general) happy with life. However, adding an understanding of the concept of Goals can help me understand a different way to approach life. And looking at something from another's point of view has, I think, hurt very few people in history.
Some key phrases from yesterday that I'm going to try to incorporate, at least in my general understanding of the term goal, if not in my actual vocabulary:
Areas in which I want to achieve results
Framework and focus for energy
Directed motivation
In a remarkable happenstance of "just-when-I-needed-it", please take a moment to read
pointoforigin's post about a possible meaning of life. It's beautiful. And perfect.
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*hee* Maybe we should all make a page with "I AM FUCKING AWESOME" spelled out across the top!
*hugs*