I noticed something about myself a few days ago. It’s something that I knew this whole time but it really hit home a couple of days ago when I thought about abandoning a goal. The goal that I’m about to share is not something that most people would find inspirational. It’s very materialistic :). The goal was to get an R35 GT-R by summer time of next year.

I devised a list like I normally do: paint the interior of the house, finish the book on PHP, and finish the book on Laravel. There were a couple of more items on that list like making sure that I keep up with my fitness goals by for the next 6 months.

I was pumped. I sat down and got to work. I’m currently a few chapters away from completing the PHP book and finished painting the master bathroom :). But, a more logical part of my brain kicked in and start saying how every dime should be put into stocks over the next year. I remember telling myself after the 2008 crash, “if there’s ever a time like this again, I’ll make sure to put everything into the stock market.”

And now we’re teetering on it. There’s a good chance that everything bottoms out. You see it happening in the crypto world already due to the FTX fallout. But where will the world go with everything that’s happening around it? If the opportunity arises, without complete anihelation, it might be a great time to get into stocks. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself.

The logical brain started to win out and I started to see the GT-R being pushed back at least another year. All of a sudden, everything that I was doing for that GT-R started to suffer. The book started to slow. The painting stopped. I felt somewhat uneasy about the whole thing. I wondered why? What was going on? And then it hit me: it was that these activities were tied to a goal and that goal just disappeared.

I tried pushing them into another goal, but it just wasn’t the same. I put an insane amount of effort into these items that I felt like I couldn’t just transfer them. After about a week, the GT-R thought came back into consideration. I did some math around it and realistically, the payment wouldn’t be that drastic (don’t tell me otherwise). I could still get it and make sure that the stocks were adequately loaded up on.

The funny thing was that I instantly felt compelled to get back into writing and painting. But the habit was already partially broken. It took another few days to get back into the habit. I’m completing the master bathroom closet and moving into the master bedroom next.

Moral of the story, once you set a goal, go for it until you complete it. It doesn’t have to be materialistic in nature; it could be a vacation. It could also be the amount of money that you have in your account or the amount of time that you spend with your family. Those were some of my actual goals from before that were completed and running well now. Here’s to goal-driven accomplishments.