“When we fixate on goals, we shut ourselves off to new opportunities that open up in different directions — opportunities that we couldn’t have foreseen when we started out. But because we’re fixated on the goal, we don’t allow ourselves to go in this new direction.”
An interesting read on achieving without goals. For me, through my time at Art Center (going the rigors of a tight deadline and learning how to have a healthy work/life balance), I've learnt to set goals in order to establish a direction to head towards, while leaving my options open along the way. Much like in compass navigation, where you plot a course towards a certain location but more often than not have to improvise along the way.
via zenhabits.net