Goal Setting

As I have said before, I have been caching for almost a year now and almost every time I go to the Geocaching website, I find myself setting a new goal as far as caching goes. My girlfriend (Erin) and I are constantly setting a goal as far as how many caches we want to find by a certain point. Albeit, we are only at about 350 finds right now, I am pretty proud of our accomplishments seeing as we are also full time college students. I think our goal for the upcoming summer is to go into it with 400 finds. I feel that is very much within reach since we are at 350 after less than a year. We basically have three months to find 50 and depending on how tough our workloads get, it should definitely be attainable. We also have different goals such as attempting to find a cache in as many states as possible. We both love traveling, and upon our graduation, we are hoping to begin to take as many trips as the wallet will allow. As I have said numerous times, caching allows us to see parts of Mother Nature that we would have never known existed. Why wouldn’t we want to explore as many states as possible? Moreover, a more longtime goal is to one day reach 10,000 finds and more! We realize that this one is a little on the over optimistic side, but we also know that geocaching is something we want to keep a part of our life for as long as possible. Now, after writing all this it makes me wonder if other cachers make goals as well. If so, I am extremely curious to know what type of goals they set as well.