What Next?

On his "Nether Lands" album from so many years ago, Dan Fogelberg asked the musical question, "Where do you go when you get to the end of your dream?" Now, in the premier issue of AdvantEdge Magazine, self-improvement guru Earl Nightgale asks a similar question: "What happens when you run out of goals?"

For many people, success has a real down side ... Getting there. As counter-intuitive as that may seem, many (most?) people are far better at striving for success than enjoying it. To quote Nightingale:

"A person often feels when he's accomplished everything he's worked and struggled
for so long to achieve, he finds himself depressed more and more of the time ...
In fact, everything is finally just as he'd planned it for so many years. And
for no reason that he can put his finger on, all the fun and enthusiasm has
strongly disappeared. He's listless and unhappy and he can't think of a single
reason why."

Well the reason why is simply this - there's no "What Next?". After a lifetime of striving for success, where DO you go when you get to the end of your dream.

Now some may say this is a pretty high-class problem to have. And it is. But that doesn't mean it still isn't a problem. Fortunately, the answer is pretty self-evident:

1. Congratulate yourself on your success to date.
2. Get yourself some new goals.
3. Start working on them with all the vim and vigor you can muster.

So what goals are YOU working on?