It’s strange how my goals can shift. This time last year I was thinking about cranking my runs up. Eyeing up some longer trail runs. Trying to find ways to fit them in during school hours and work. Then building towards a 22 mile Moors run. Something to aim for during the winter months.
Fast forward a year and the thought of trail runs has long gone.
Now just a walk across the farmers field to that tree in the distance seems like a real goal. An aim. Something to dream about. How many times can we get to that tree over the next few months.
Until life resets again then that is something to hold onto. I realise it’s important to be realistic. To take account of the circumstances that are currently in place. Short term goals need to change to take account of this. But I can still dream on a grander scale. Push that horizon further. Hold those dreams close and maybe one day when life shifts, and it will, they become the achievable goals.
Sometimes its just important to appreciate we have legs to walk, its also wonderful to have goals..daily life can SEEM mundane but somehow there is a miracle in being alive. And sometimes its not the grand gestures or huge achievements that matter the most, sometimes its just the simple things and the fact you front up every day to live and give love to your.. โค
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Thatโs exactly right x
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That right! I have a dream, a hope, a plan for ten years down the road. It keeps happy to think about it when things are difficult. Meanwhile, I get through each day as best I can and find ways to have fun. And keep dancing๐๐๐ผ๐๐ซโจ๐๐
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Thatโs the timeframes we operate in . xxx
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Your title goals got me excited. I thought you were writing about the amazing amount of goals scored this weekend.
It’s a shame yous are on hold. Fingers crossed ๐ค
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We only got one. A dodgy but most funny one.
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Every dream has a pathway of steps, some steep, some more levelled out, and we change our shoes to take account of the terrain as we journey toward our destination, because the dream is always the light on the horizon, .
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Thatโs exactly right.
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The one thing about life, it never stays the same. Wishing you all the good changes my freaking.
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Thank you Sadje. X
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Youโre welcome
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Hold them close. Things always change… ๐
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They do always change x
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I like realistic – kinda sucks sometimes though
I am half dreamer and half realist lol – so I clash with self once in awhile
One year ago … I was still healing from surgery and working at my school with my kids โค๏ธ…
But also dealing with a lawyer who wasnโt helping me, and still had personal sadness … I wasnโt even blogging yet.
Wow ๐ฎ when I look back like that and itโs just been a year – it seems like an eternity ago ๐ณ๐ฎ
Ok you just blew my mind.
What a difference a year makes.
I wonder what 2025 be like ๐ฎ๐ฎ whoa ๐ฎ we be far enough from 2020… so what is that gonna be like?? ๐ฎ Crazy!!
I am a planner… and I do aim for things … it just that word โgoalsโ that bothers me a little. I have aims… things I take aim at because I want that… kinda similar but with the word goals I kinda feel like you must be a straight shot – as in solid … life doesnโt usually come solid like that… so not always a straight shot
I would be too disappointed if I said something was my โgoalโ and didnโt get it.
But with an aim… I can aim at something … but any variety of life in that area that I want would be amazing too.
Life is too unpredictable to me. Itโs very similar – but again I have that realist side so that makes me think of all the variables. See itโs a struggle lol
But that is crazy to think about one year ago ๐ฎ๐ณ I wasnโt even blogging then ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ whoa my whole life was different!!! Completely!! ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ whoa
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Thatโs the thing, you just donโt know what cool things you will be doing soon. ๐
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Yeah no kidding! ๐ฎ
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Does Hawklad ever want to run with you? You could keep it all empty trails, right?
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No, he hates the idea. He just says – what is the point.
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๐ A boy we carpooled with told me, quite reasonably, that exercise is uncomfortable.
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Wise boy.
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What kind of a dream goal is a 22 mile moor run? Sounds hellish ๐. Iโm with you on holding on to those long term goals and dreams. I have more short term goals too and they make me happy if I achieve them. Mini dreams. Hope you are ok my friend. X
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Itโs a target. I kinda need them to push me on. Doing a crow for 5 seconds isnโt quite the same. x
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Doing a crow for 5 milliseconds is phenomenal I say! I know. Goals and dreams and hopes are really important. I have a few myself. ๐
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I bet they are good ones. x
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They are lovely ones and they keep me smiling and happy ๐ x
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Good x
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How true is Lennon’s saying…Life is what happens when we are busy making plans. (Shit happens too mind you…)
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It really does. Hope you are doing good.
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Hope you are too.
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I am
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May you eventually get to run again
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Fingers crossed
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I need to reach for a goal as well. Mine have all been lost – and there is not much to shoot for these days with the state of everything. It would be good to havbe something to focus on.
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Wouldnโt it be great. I so miss having my running goals. They brought so much direction.
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Never let go of the dreams. One day this time will be history and maybe with perspective it will have benefited us somehow? Hard to believe now but there are generally lessons in most things.
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Always things to learn.
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Yes, there is definitely a need for short term goals. There is also a definite need for dreams. Itโs a good combo. Short term and long range forecasts…. things to ponder and things to smile about. The smiling bit is important. It means that the hoping and dreaming bit is still working! ๐
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I so hope you are still dreaming. You have so much potential and life to live. ๐
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I’m practicing. Well… sort of. Once I get past fighting with myself it might go a little easier. ๐
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It will. It really will. ๐
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Okay. If you say so. I’m trusting you know what you’re talking about. ๐
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I must be good for something ๐
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Yes, keep those dreams close to your heart. The closer the horizon my seem the bigger we need to dream!
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I just saw the typo… I mean “may seem”… ๐ฌ
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Iโm with you on the size of dreams needed.
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Yay!!
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I love the photos of that tree. It seems like a very reasonable and reachable goal to me.
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Thank you
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You’re most welcome ๐
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Gary, there’s a online uprise today. First it was WordPress… now my grocery store was acting super duper wonky. Then it locked me out of my own account. Oh, there’s the email I need to reset my password! ๐ฎ
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Nightmare. So frustrating. Itโs Terminator and Skynet. Time to get under that umbrella. ๐๐
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Fly up those steps. ๐
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Thank you x
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