I am all about goals. I’ve built my business around the concept of rewarding yourself for succeeding in your goals. But something just occurred to me, and that’s the title of this post.
Are your goals limiting your dreams?
We get so wrapped up in brainstorming about goals and thinking about the practical aspects of achieving that we forget about the bigger picture.
Ask yourself: What would I do with my life if I had no obstacles holding me back?
Ask yourself: If I could do anything in the world, what would it be?
Ask yourself: How do I picture my most whole, most authentic, absolute best self?
Ponder those questions for an hour, a month, a year. Allow yourself to imagine, to dream what your life would be like.
That is the point at which you start making goals about how to achieve that dream.
Remember, your only limitation is you.
I originally received a blue InkJoy gel pen through my 
This pen is another one I was introduced to through SCRIBEDelivery, in black. I liked it so much I’ve since ordered three more through Amazon. And then I discovered they came in colors. W00t! I was in. What was really neat is they come in a plastic zipper pouch. An added bonus? The stickers on them are in Japanese. I’m pretty much a sucker for “exotic” writing, especially Japanese. (In this case, “exotic” means, in Alabama speak, “it ain’t from around here.” Which is a good thing.) The pens are short, about 10.5 cm or around 4 inches, just tucking into the palm of my hand. To use them, you unscrew the bottom, remove the little yellow cap, and shove the top down into the cartridge. Screw the barrel back on, turn the pen tip-down, and watch it flow down into the felt tip. I find it strangely mesmerizing. The flow is lovely on both textured and smooth paper, as you can see on the samples below. I use a black one exclusively for my 
Kooky story, but the set of Petit-2 pens I purchased recently were the second set I bought. Somehow I misplaced the first set. Amazon is so helpful in encouraging me to spend money; they showed me these fountain pens when I bought the Petit-2s. I adore fountain pens, and pens in color? Oh, yes. The set comes in Black, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, Red, and Yellow. I haven’t used these much yet, but they seem to do best on smooth matte paper. I don’t think they’ll perform well on shiny paper, but we’ll see. These also have Japanese stickers on them, so they make me happy. The color is rich and mostly smooth, although they seem to take a bit of time for the nib to become sufficiently moistened to write well. The main problem I’ve had in the past with fountain pens is that characteristic ink smudge on the middle finger, but maybe that’s just with those that use bottled ink. 
