I am quickly getting to the stage in life where not much happens. I will be in my career job, I will get a house, and I will meet a girl and settle down. Now, I cant see the future and I can’t tell you exactly how long each of those will take to happen, but by best accounts it will only be a few years before most if not all of these happen. It is this stage when many people start to feel like their life has stalled, or have a “midlife” crisis.

Now I am not close to being at the midpoint in my life in the sense of years alive, but I am getting close to being done my early stage of life where every few years you have a new big goal that you are achieving. This is where the title of this post comes from, you should keep setting goals. Just because you have achieved most of the normal goals in life does not mean you are done achieving. You may have finished school, but you are not done learning.

One of the reasons for starting this website is to have another goal to achieve, to start my own business. Now, I will have a well paying career job, and this website and its attached social media is only one business plan I have, but it is a great goal to start and run your own business. It takes a lot of time and work to start and maintain a business, some are easier than others, but they all take work.

Running a blog is certainly less labor intensive than opening a restaurant or store. Once I send out a post, its done, I don’t have to be there to babysit it. There are things you should do to promote it, and reply to comments, but it is a lot less on going work than maintaining a store front.

Starting a business is only one goal though, I have many things I want to learn to do. I have started to learn how to blacksmith recently, which has lead into me also learning more about wood working, and even building construction. This leads back to another post I have wrote, but not released yet, about finding adventure in the mundane. If you set yourself goals and internalize those goals, it makes life more exciting. For example, you want a walk-in closet in your house and you have a spare bedroom next too your master bedroom. Instead of hiring someone, use this as a goal to learn construction and build it all yourself. You will save money, learn a new skill, and have something you have done to be proud of.

I have had some time recently to reflect on my past and have realized many of the most exciting times and goals I have achieved have been ones I set myself. So, using this knowledge I have started to make plans for different goals I want to achieve once I reach the stage in life where most people have completed all their goals.

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