living without goals.

I am so so SO excited I came across this blog!!! I have always lived knowing what I want to do, but there was no need to set goals and reach for the stars, so to speak. I was asked to write a final essay in college about my future plans, knowing I would have a degree in hand soon. I wrote a really freaking good essay on not having goals for the future, living in the present, and that I only went to college to get it over with and just say I did it.  I really wanted to be a stay at home mom.  My professor didn't understand that.  I failed that paper. Miserably. My professor said that it was impossible to live without real goals and that I need to get my shit together and stop being a turd (in more or less words).
Well, check this out. There are other people out there, happy people, who do not live with goals. You know what? They still get shit done.

Here is an excerpt from the blog.

get excited and do things

You don’t need goals to tell you what to do. You know what to do (if you don’t, read this). You’re excited about doing it already — you just need tofocus, and get to it.

Goals keep you focused on something in the future, instead of being present and enjoying what you’re doing right now. Goals keep you fixed on one path, which might not be the best path in a week or a month or a year. They keep you fixated on one thing, rather than being open to new opportunities, being flexible as the landscape changes, being free to pursue something you’re newly passionate about rather than sticking to something you’re tired of.

Being liberated from goals means you will always be excited about what you’re doing. And yes, you’ll accomplish things. You’ll get somewhere great — you just might not have known you’d ever end up there when you started.

Get excited, and do stuff.

Also: shake yo bambama."

http://zenhabits.net/achieving/