You can also try to distance yourself from the goals. Goals do not define your life or who you are, they are only things you want to do. That way you can say,

You can also try to distance yourself from the goals. Goals do not define your life or who you are, they are only things you want to do. That way you can say, "Everything IS perfect or close to it now. By the way, I'll bump up my revenues 1000% and move to Cambodia." The really hard thing is to retain the needed passion to succeed at those goals while remaining distant enough for them not to make you believe they are life defining events, as they usually aren't, even significantly big ones.