36. How important are these goals to you?

I think they're very important...  But, I think the act of goal setting in itself and thinking more long term is the most important part of it.  For a long time, I wasn't thinking long term.  I was thinking in terms of daily survival.  But in my defense, I was also in a position for a long time, that just thinking about the day to day was so overwhelming, I don't think it would have been possible to work on any long term goals.  You have to be in a position where you feel safe before you can build yourself up. Realigning my priorities is probably the best thing I could do.  And the fact that I finally CAN look to the future is a good and sometimes scary thing.  But the good outweighs the scary.