“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you start CrossFit and  we discuss goals, long term, short term and otherwise.  We discuss how you’re going to get there and what you want to achieve.  While most of us do well by making goals and setting ourselves up to achieve them, some of us don’t do well that way.  Consider this, the best goal for some, is no goal at all.
“The common belief: “You’ll never get anywhere unless you know where you’re going.” This seems so common sensical, and yet it’s obviously not true if you stop to think about it. Conduct a simple experiment: go outside and walk in a random direction, and feel free to change directions randomly. After 20 minutes, an hour … you’ll be somewhere! It’s just that you didn’t know you were going to end up there.

And there’s the rub: you have to open your mind to going places you never expected to go. If you live without goals, you’ll explore new territory. You’ll learn some unexpected things. You’ll end up in surprising places. That’s the beauty of this philosophy, but it’s also a difficult transition.” –(Leo Babauta)

Explore new territory, live our motto, the unknown and unknowable.  Many of us are doing things we never expected to do in a million years.  We’re living so far above what we ever dreamed that our goals are not realistic because we’ve far surpassed them.  We can make new goals, or we can live in the moment.  Surprise yourself continually, work beyond your potential, live for today, congratulate yourself on what you’ve accomplished and keep pushing.  You’ll end up much further than you ever dreamed.