Practice

My yoga teacher - when I did yoga - used to say that it was all practice. What he meant was that in yoga, as in life, it is more productive to work towards improvement than towards a fixed set of goals. Fixed goals do only limited good. They provide focus, but do not allow for the setbacks which all of us find every now and then. Not a very flexible model. Moreover, being goal-oriented draws attention away from the biggest part of the enterprise - the way in which you get there. Does it make you a happier human? A kinder one? A more fulfilled one? No? Maybe you're doing it wrong, if you'll excuse the lolcat reference. To quote a favourite obscure poet, "balance is the biggest part of movement"

Have a lovely evening.