Goals

It's good to have goals. 

Right?

I mean

They seem like a good idea

The idea of succeeding in something you worked hard for

The thrill of when you finally achieve it

Like finishing a detailed painting

Or landing that clean double pirouette

But sometimes

They seem unreachable

Like the motivation just doesn't want to help out today

But then there's that feeling

The feeling that if you don't succeed, you fail

There's no in between

You're either perfect 

Or 

You're not

If you miss a single step

Or write one word wrong

Then the feeling of failure comes

And with that

Comes a larger desire to be perfect

To never mess up again

So you try harder

Well I don't care if I'm a little bit of a perfectionist

I don't care if sometimes I arrange my school supplies so they are all lined up

I don't care if we are talking about perfectionism in leadership, and my friends look at me

I think it pushes me to be better

Yeah, some think of it as a bad thing

Something that you tear yourself down with

But that's not what it is

Because if you are always looking to be better

And you take the feedback personally

You'll get better

You'll remember how

And the goals will get easier

Originally, I thought this poem

Was going to be about goals feeling hard

But instead

It gave me motivation

Writing is funny that way

You start out writing one thing

And it takes a whole different path

It's calming

It's a way to say what's hard to say out loud

But back to the goals topic

Yeah, sometimes goals can feel hard

Sometimes they seem unreachable

But if you make them right

You'll feel the success

You'll feel confident

And the motivation will come more easily

And the more motivation you have

The more you will want to get better

And the more you want it

The better you get

And the better you get

The more motivation you have

It's just one big circle.