Biggest Goal?
Several times over the past few weeks I have been asked the same question by several different people: “What is your biggest goal in your career?” Combined with last week’s post on rewarding yourself for goals set and achieved I thought that now was a good time to answer this question.
As I mentioned last week, I do make goals. However, I don’t have THE goal – the ONE that needs to be achieved. I used to. Then I achieved it. After accomplishing what you thought was impossible or the “end of the road” you can be left with a very empty feeling with no sense of direction. I am thus leery to make any more career goals because achieving it could imply the end of the career.
Add to this fact that there is no singular huge goal to accomplish in show business – there is always something bigger. Let’s say I get my own 60-minute HBO special… that’s a really good and really big goal… but after this has been accomplished there’s still something bigger. Maybe it’s my own talk show (ala Ellen Degeneres) or a new special every year (ala George Carlin).
So the short answer to this question is that I don’t have any single goal for my career – just a collection of goals that I work towards with the intent of not stopping performing until I absolutely have to.
