The key is not goals so much as it is finding/having meaning. A meaningful life may or may not focus on achieving some stated goal, so much as living a certain way. This writer apparently is a box checker, which is fine, but may not be for everybody.
The range of human natures is so vast that it does include box checkers, who probably get most of their satisfaction out of each and every box check, as well as their fun in creating the boxes in the first place. For those who need it, good on you!
Never worked for me.
Tried box checking a few times when influenced by New Year Resolution articles. Disaster. Totally depressing when no boxes got checked, and then the list disappeared in an avalanche of day to day paper. When it would finally resurrect itself during some cleaning frenzy, it would just take down the joy of seeing a surface that hadn’t been visible to even feel guilt about not dusting in months.
But good for those whose hearts warm with the stroke of a pen.
Amen! My ex was a box checker to the extreme. If her calendar had burned in a fire, her life would have been over. I couldn’t live like that. Goals are good to work towards, but not the end all drug it becomes to some people.