goal-oriented life.

 goal-oriented life.

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Calling and achievement presuppose a goal.


The key to a meaningful life is to achieve a meaningful goal and live a life in which that goal is one's calling.


Recently, however, the words vocation, achievement, and goal have been shunned. It is not a goal to be pursued for happiness, but an object to be wary of for happiness.


How did humans come to regard those who value goals as Sisyphus who repeat meaningless labour without knowing the true value of life?



A narrow understanding of the goal leads to dismissing it as an object to avoid achieving happiness.


Happiness is not something you can achieve when you work hard with obsessive, grand goals in pursuit of happiness.


Happiness is experienced as a by-product of achieving big and small goals that are meaningful to you. Therefore, it is not the size of the goal that determines happiness, but the personal meaning of the goal.


No matter how important socially it is, it cannot be an important goal if it is not meaningful to the individual.


It is clear that awareness of goal supremacy is necessary, but the distorted pursuit of happiness that spreads like a fad can easily lead to one-sided denial of the goal. This is like burning an entire thatch to catch fleas.



You should be alert to the fact that your life of listening to the world's standards is becoming a habit.


When you listen to the lives of others instead of your own inner voice, your important personal goals disappear.


Intoxicated with the big and flashy goals of others, one or two of their own meaningful little goals are erased.


Although small personal goals in everyday life may not solve national challenges or produce great results for humanity, they provide rules and order in one's life and, above all, gives meaning to one's own life.


A goal is a condition of happiness that can never be given up. Find your own goals, not the goals of others.


If you think that only special and huge things are your goals, so if you neglect small and precious goals in the name of vigilance against goal supremacy, you are filling your own source of happiness.


Happiness is not the price of living without a goal.


You cannot enjoy a meaningful life, true happiness, as long as you maintain your view of your goals as obstacles to happiness.


Goals are like runways. Without it, life is just a series of collisions.

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