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Some goals expire. Keeping them is not always discipline.

A goal can remain on your list long after its reason has disappeared. You may keep renewing it because removing it would force you to acknowledge how much has changed. Completion begins to look like a way to avoid that acknowledgment.

Before deleting it, give the old goal a fair hearing. What did it promise you? Is that still something you want, and is this still a sensible route? You can respect the person who chose it without requiring the person you are now to finish it.

Which goal are you maintaining out of loyalty to an earlier version of yourself?

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