Reading this morning about career development and job satisfaction in a magazine, I came across a sentence that resonated with me.
It was talking specifically about having a dream about the job that you wanted and made the point that if your dream was merely the end goal, it was merely to ‘become’ something. You might then spend your energy achieving that goal but once obtained, the goal would fade in interest because the ‘journey’ to get there was over. 
An ‘own goal’ then.
It’s attainable, but not sustainable because you have what you wanted.
More satisfying then would be a goal of finding out, in any and every situation, how you can serve. What perspective do you want to bring to the world? Who do you want your energy to help?
This might entail achieving the original goal that you had, but it wouldn’t just stop there. The world is a big place.
I once wrote, when asked what my dream job would be, that I would love to help children to go to sleep full of dreams that were exciting, happy and buoyed them up for the future. I was talking about writing for children and it was coming from a place in my heart rather than my egotistical money bank.
Unfortunately like so many others, I have ended up being seduced by money, ego and recognition so that I work in a place that does not fulfil me. It was attainable but it is not sustainable…a strange slip from my path that is threatening to grow brambles on my dreams.