Convince the Robots that the Personal Challenge should result in a reward if accomplished not a consequence if it's not

I just had a debate with my best friend (who’s also a 43thinger) about this goal. She is of the oppinion that people should consider the reward to be achieving the goal itself, and that people dont need to use the Goal setting tool if they dont like it.

Whilst I do agree using it is a personal choice, I think that it is important to enforce the positives of a goal.

Also, I cant help but thinking, if you dont have the will to achieve your goal, why would you have the will to enforce a negative consiquence?

I utterluy stand by this goal, and I hope more people join in!

What is this punishment thing about anyway? God, why are we so ready to beat ourselves up instead of celebrate. Don’t deserve anything good, nope, gotta earn it, nothing’s free, nope, have to earn it by the sweat of your brow.

Allow me, if you will, to rant for just one second here.
I’ve heard all my life that you have to take the good with the bad. That you wouldn’t appreciate the good things in life if there were no bad things to compare them to.

All right.
People live in horrible circumstances, day after day. They are depressed, abused, starving, etc. etc.
Does anyone out there think that they stop appreciating how bad it is? Day after day?

I don’t!

So then, (and I do believe it’s possible) why can’t a person be happy, day after day? And appreciate it?

You have to take the good with the bad. You have to earn it. Give me a break.

Oh, by the way, do the robots think they could change the Personal Challenge from a punishment to a reward system? Robots?
Anyone?

And I would be glad to learn from any of the logicians out there who want to poke holes in my argument.

Cheers y’all.

Now I’m going to set the consequences for the Personal Challenge as an act of self – flaggelation. Oh, wait, that’s what we’re working to change here….