Sisyphean goals

Viewing life as a goal-achievement process might seem as the most natural thing in the world, though the real achievement of the goal can bring a variety of feelings and emotions which at times may lead us to a total emotional imbalance. Once we have overcome the uncertainties to commence a given journey and we have embraced the idea of that goal, it’s too hard to give it up, moreover if we have already felt it realised and completed.

Those first feelings and emotions, to have made us self-confident and content of how the real goal achievement could feel, are aimed to keep us going no matter how hard it could be along the way. Being so strong and lucrative, they often make us forget that we are somewhere at the very beginning or in the middle of the road, and not at the top of the mountain yet. That’s how the first mixed emotions of how we would like to feel and how we actually feel at the moment occur.

While striving to complete the tasks in the here and now, the sweet escape to the future may bring some positive vibes, though that will not result in a stable emotional condition of being fulfilled and satisfied. Very soon we will realise that the harder we push the further we will go away from our goal. Then, our goal may turn into a real Sisyphean trial, which some will label as impossible while others will stick to the idea “never give up your dreams”.

“Let it go” is the next approach, which may feel quite natural in a given goal-achievement process, when the struggle to get closer to what we have wanted has not given the desired result. However, “let it go” does not bring the connotation of sitting blissfully and meditating on “if it is meant to be, it will be”. Expecting miracles will bring another dose of negative emotions to top up on what we have already collected and to foresee the failure of our venture.

As long as we keep ourselves in the present reality and overcome timely the little hardships on the way to our goal, nothing is impossible. If each next step makes us feel good and more confident, that’s a sign that we are on the right track and we can keep on going. Sensing whatever negative vibes, though, is an indication of heading into a wrong direction. The best strategy at that moment is to revise our idea and to reconsider how and what we actually want to achieve. 

The goal-achievement process is above all a self-improvement process and it will not be strange at all when we realise that the initial idea has changed along the way, as well as we have changed ourselves. Some may keep on trying to achieve their goal the Sisyphean way, and what’s more they may finally achieve it. It’s all about the value of what we have reached and how we will feel about it. If you are ready to do it all over again, then all of your efforts have not been in vain.