Goals are nice. Sometimes they really move us toward the life of our dreams. Other times, when we achieve them, we realize we still don't have the life of our dreams. Or we don't do what's needed to reach the goal and we feel like failures and mentally kick ourselves. Not the best way to get to the life of our dreams.
It's been said that the purpose of all our efforts is to be happy at home. The first time I saw that in print, it stopped me in my tracks. I thought that it could not be possible that that was the purpose of all my efforts. I tried to refute it but couldn't. At that point in my life my home was just a "pit stop" where I ate and slept and then ran out the door to get to the next task. I kind of resented having to clean the place, change the sheets and towels, etc. It seemed to me that those chores got in the way of my "real life."
The more I thought about it, the more I thought that being happy at home was a worthwhile goal. Why else did I go to work every day and run all those errands? Maybe creating a home where I was happy could be a priority!
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