End goals

One thing I've been trying to remind myself in all that I do - in friendships, work, church, community, family, social situations - is to remember the end goal of whatever I do.

With regards to being a Christian, my end goal is to become whole in Christ.

When meeting new people, my end goal is for both sides to become more comfortable with each other.

At work, my job is to remember the end goals of whatever projects I've been assigned.  Thus, during the process of working on those projects, I should strive to stray away as least often as possible and remember what objective I'm trying to aim towards in the first place.

When dating, my end goal is to find someone who would be a potential husband.

Yesterday was an experience where I failed to recognize an end goal.  Long story short, a friend and I wanted to do an activity somewhere and our end goal was essentially to have a good time and be in a place where we can focus but also be relaxed.  When meeting the manager of this place, we both knew that remaining with him would hinder our end goal for the day, yet we still went ahead and stayed anyways.  It was definitely a lessoned learned to always stay focused on an objective, and also another lesson of assertiveness to learn.