Being disabled wasn't part of my plan.

I'm still moving in some direction but I don't know where yet

Not entirely true, I've never considered them goals, but they could be I guess. Whatever I can do is on my bucket list of life.

My dad told me I shouldn't go to college, and he wasn't going to help pay for it. OK, it was late 70s and my dad was not the brightest of the bunch. So I joined the Army and got the hell out of that small town. After I was in a few years I married another soldier and became chief logistics officer for the family. When I realized I needed to end that marriage I got an Associate's degree in HIM, and was prepared to enter the workforce and the economy tanked. Yeah, life did not work out how I planned, but I became adept at surviving.

I'm often asked during job interviews, "where I see myself in five years." My response is: "Alone on the couch in my underwear, eating Bon Bons while watching reruns of Friends."

you got to lose to win.

I always had goals/dreams, many came to fruition, and I enjoyed them, then life changed and I had new goals, I guess eventually I got it 80% right, though the other 20% was a total disaster.

I have done fairly well by my own reckoning. My problem was that I could always think of 10 times more stuff I wanted to do that I actually had time to do. That has resulted in many unfinished projects. A lot of the things I started just to see if I could do them. When I got far enough along that I knew that I could, they got set aside for something new.

My Goal was Simple and Very Specific.... "Make it to Retirement Age" and I Did!!!!! So I Retired for a 2nd time. 3 Pension Checks. No Roots to force me to keep the damn zip code number.... The Rest is Gravy to Me. Has no desire or interest on the accumulation of things I can not take away with me when I cross over to the other side. Spent My Money, Have Fun... Off the Reservation until my Gig Is Up. No more Master... No need for Slave. I am good at entertaining myself with little and my truckload of moments and experiences is my Reward!!!! 'Sorry if my plans run afoul with your plans.

It took me a long time to decide what goals I wanted but after I knew what I wanted and I was capable, I worked hard and was persistent. Now I'm making new goals, gotta keep growing, right?

I had goals and plans as a teenager, I got so far with them then it all fell apart! After a couple of years I had new goals and plans and, so far, they are working out reasonably well.

Sometimes your goals can get mixed up with what your parents say you should aspire to only to find out after they're gone this is not what you really wanted it all. It's what they wanted.

I'm still young and I have goals, I am getting close to being able to achieve some of them or taking steps getting closer to the goal, but life seems to be knocking me down a lot. I keep pushing though!

I never made goals in terms of positions that I might want to hold, but in in positions I held, I looked for problems and needs and made goals of creating programs that were needed to make a difference. That was my pattern. I would create a new program, make it work, then get a little bored and look for a new problem or need, and repeat the process. during that period, I made a difference and had a ball doing it.

Yes in sales you are constantly setting goals-I stayed at each major consumer goods company until they were bought by another company, went broker, or leveraged salaries and laid top earners off. I left my last company due to illness. Even though I had achieved success -being #1 Sales Rep internationally for Gund, Inc.a few years later I was disabled and financially barely getting by.

I sometimes feel like the ball in a pin-ball game. Going for a end-point only to get knocked off the path.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon

Life happens. I had to end one career path due to a work injury. Than I was retrained and a few months after working in the computer field, I started to lose vision and am now legally blind. Goals never helped me, Life as it happened just got in the way.