It's a simple show. You've got episode 108.

Hi, I'm Tishawkson writer. And I'm Erin Lachner. And on The Simple Show, we talk about saying no and yes to the right things.

In this episode, we're talking about goals, how sometimes we make them and sometimes we break them.

Okay, Aaron, so this is the time of year when everybody

is talking about goals and resolutions and stuff like that. So I thought this is a perfect

topic for us to talk about this week. What do you say no to when it comes to goals? Oh my gosh.

So initially, I thought this is going to be one of the episodes that we finally disagree on, right?

Because in the past,

I have always just said no to, I'm calling them goals. I really just said no to like the hard and fast,

rigid way that we approach goals. And what I mean by that is when we kind of set something that

feels very circumstantial, but it's kind of tethered to something that we're attaining in the future. So

like, someday I'm going to travel the world with my family. And then we never do it because it's just

there. It's not on the calendar. It's not. There's nothing tangible about it. So I say no to kind of

those far off dreamy ones that lack action, that lack something tangible that I can do today to get there.

I always think of that proverb that's like we can make our plans, but God determines our

steps because I feel like a lot of the goals that traditionally we set have very little

flexibility in them. And it's kind of like we think we have failed if we have not reached it

when really maybe we have to course correct a little bit. So I say no to those like those rigid long term

pie in the sky. If I don't do it, I'm a failure goal. That's a that's a big picture. I also kind of

at the same time, I would say for me, instead of thinking of it as goal, I tend to reframe it as like a compass.

So I like to set, and this maybe is more of my yes answer, but I, rather than using my life

direction like a map where it's there are tidy arrival points because we both know,

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