We know the benefit of setting long-term goals.  It’s easy to understand how our dreams can set a path for short-term goal setting, creating the road from here to there.  We know and understand… and then the time comes to make a decision.

It seems that if we set a goal for our future, short-term decisions should be easy. They’re not.  It may make our choices more clear, but that is often very different than easy.

Over the last few weeks making an easy, convenient choice has tempted my husband and me.  It even seemed like a reasonable choice to make.  But as we quit simply chatting about it and dug into what we should choose to do, it became clear (again) that making that easy, convenient choice didn’t support our long-term goals.

Sigh…

I really would love for the path to my dreams to be easy and convenient.  Evidently that isn’t going to be the case.  It will, however, be exciting and worth it when our dreams become reality.

It’s only going to happen if we make the right choices today.