A goal deserves to be questioned when reaching it requires becoming permanently unavailable.

Some goals ask you to disappear from your own life in order to arrive somewhere. Ambition is usually described by what it will give and rarely by what it will spend, so the cost stays vague until it is being paid. A hard season is one thing, and a permanent condition is another. It is worth knowing which one you have agreed to.

Picture your ordinary week a year after you reach it. If everyone close to you is still waiting for a gap that never comes, the goal needs a different shape rather than more effort from you.