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Goals are meaningless.
I have friends from high school whose goals 30 years ago were to be rich and famous and who are now and always have been unrecognized lower level whatevers: civil servants, grocery clerks, hotel desk clerks. Not that there is anything wrong with ANY honest job, but none of them have come close to a "goal".
Instead of deciding a goal, or something you want, decide on what how much work, study and effort you are willing to dedicate to something. The fields are cluttered with Smittys who had the Goal of being a D-1 conference umpire or MLB umpire; while the D-1 ranks and the pro ranks, right down to short season A leagues, are filled with those who decided instead to see how far their sweat woudl take them.
How much time are you willing to dedicate to umpiring? how much money are you willing to spend on clinics, camps or even pro-school? How many games are you willing and able to work? How much effort will you dedicate to learning from those above you instead of arguing about how you "want" to do things?
Instead of setting a goal to become something, find out what it took for others to get there and then see if you are willing to match that.
Effort and results will beat goal setting any day.
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