If I were a chef, I’d cook what I wanted cook, using my creativity, aesthetics, flavor palette and hope somebody would like it. That’s not really a goal. While others might cook what they knew people wanted and satisfy their needs. Goals seem more easily derived from this mindset. Maybe I feel it’s too much of a sacrifice? Maybe I don’t want to lose my voice? Maybe I’m judging myself unable to meet the need; scared of “failure”, “rejection”?
But maybe if I were a chef, the more holistic way to look at it… starting from mindset of understanding, empathizing other’s needs/desires but I’m bringing who I am to fulfill that need. As in I can bring together the recipes, dishes, flavors the only way I know how. That in itself is the uniqueness, creativity, generosity; bringing my whole self and connecting to what I do to serve others.
But maybe that’s what goals are, where people meet in the response and reward… where the response is the reward and the reward is the response.