Goals that seek to define my life and purpose are personally valuable beyond measure. For such goals, I would love to find time to write little entries on a regular basis about how I have lived up to this goal—lived by my values.

The initial attractiveness of listing goals is the potential for checking them off as done. “Buy a can of paint.” “Check.”

“Be more compassionate,” on the other hand, is a goal for striving, and for checking myself to see how I’m doing with that. I expect never to check it off of my list, until I, myself, am done.

I suspect the dual nature of goals points out a structural issue for the Robots (I’m starting to really like those guys), but I don’t have any better suggestions for them than what I’ve seen already. A “not achieved,” “progress,” “partially achieved” way to retire a goal is a good start. Being able to say “a little bit worth it,” however that’s stated, would also be helpful.

It’s often hard to just delete a goal, whatever it’s status, but to be able to change focus onto new goals, and also keep the site dynamic, the ability to move things to the “completed” column, at whatever state of completion would be a good thing.