The lack of tangibles can be very difficult, at least for me. It may be possible to come up with measures like different responses to the same situation or things I don’t do anymore or new behaviours started, these are things I’ve used to get some concreteness about how I’ve changed.

I too think that life often needs to take precedence over our goals. This seems unavoidable to me - I just don’t control everything that happens to me.

I hope you are managing to do something about the obstacle.

Thankyou for your thoughtful and personal comment, I very much appreciate it.

I hadn’t taken time out to access my goals for quite awhile. I allowed circumstances to dictate directions. Honestly, some of the circumstances were unavoidable. And when I did work toward a goal in the middle of those life-takes- precedence scenes, my goals were clouded or not realized as fully as they might have been. It seems there just wasn’t enough time to keep the focus clear. I guess juggling too many balls kept me from becoming more skilled with fewer.

Circumstances eventually and inevitably changed. My goal pursuing that had been put on hold, got dropped right in front of me. Once again, I seemed to be in a little or no choice situation. It was too large an obstacle to go around or ignore. I needed to do something about it.

That is where I find myself today, where I have been for almost three years. It seems like a long time not to have a tangible thing in my hand to say, here is the result of all this work. Here is what I want. I can finally see the direction I am moving. I guess the best way to look at it is, it must be a bigger goal than I thought.

I hope to - and comments like yours help me along the way.