This short post has always resonated with me:
https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/ive-never-had-a-goal-c8921...
https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/ive-never-had-a-goal-c8921...
btw what do you think about the quoted paragraph? I didn't catch the meaning of it:
> The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our goals not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them, but we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.