Excellent article, if I can build on it.
Goals are very important and they change over time or you find new ones once you achieve them. The journey is as important as the destination.
Growth vs fixed mindset, grit and self belief.
It is true that once you are committed, you do make your own luck. You can’t be half pregnant.
Often it is in finding the real drive and desire that gets you to do something that is the challenge.
Every journey begins with the first step, and this is the hardest. To break away from the old and accept the new and unknown.
To do that is the first and hardest part of the journey. As the saying goes once you find your why, you can do any how.
How do you know that that goal is what you really what, what are the internal and external measures that it is truly your purpose and destiny (for the moment anyway).
Sometimes to set your goal or find your purpose you first have to really know yourself.
People may think they are committed to a goal but in reality they aren’t, your commitment can be measured by what you are prepared to give up. Buddha gave up everything (wife, family, palaces) to find self enlightenment.
Sometime people are commitment by their nature, other times a situation and event creates that, e.g. A loved one gets sick and you decide to walk the world to raise money for that cause.
The biggest challenge is that once the mind is set, it is difficult to change orbit. Old habits die hard and for most people. Often it is more about putting the supporting infrastructure to help you. When you build a house, you put scaffolding to help you, once finished you no longer require it.