Now, when I was a kid, a goal was really exciting, it was something that I celebrated, it was a fun thing! It was “A goal!” But somewhere along the line, maybe around Jr High School, or High School, it became “A goal.” Something that was a responsibility, something that I had to do, and it lost all that feeling. Maybe it had something to do with this- a lot of the teachers, they made me think I had to set goals in order to be successful. It was something that you needed to do. They even wrote it on the chalkboard. You can look at the steps here. Teachers made me think that achieving a goal was as easy as this: 1. Set goal. 2. Make plan. 3. Get to work. 4. Stick to it. 5. Reach goal. Following these steps, you’ll be able to be successful. Looks easy, right? But the reality is that achieving a goal is more like an obstacle course. There’s lots of pitfalls, lots of places where you can make mistakes. They don’t really teach this to you. So as a kid I was really frustrated. In fact, a lot of adults feel the same way. So I came up with something called the Silly Goals. Now anybody can do this, you can take goals that are really serious, and you just add a little bit of silliness into it. Makes it kind of fun, just don’t tell your boss about it. Now Silly Goals, let me give you an example: