What if changing your goals isn't giving up—but recognizing that your life has changed?

Some Goals Can Go is a thoughtful and practical self-help guide for anyone who has found themselves pursuing ambitions that no longer feel meaningful. Goals can provide direction and purpose, but they can also become obligations when they remain attached to old expectations, outdated definitions of success, or earlier versions of ourselves.

Janet C. Sawyer explores the emotional difficulty of releasing goals that once mattered, from the fear of disappointing others to the pressure created by comparison, sunk effort, and the belief that persistence is always the right answer.

Through calm reflection and practical insight, this book helps readers examine where their ambitions came from, distinguish temporary discouragement from genuine misalignment, and reconsider what personal success means in their current season of life.

Readers will explore how to:

Recognize when an ambition no longer fits

Separate personal desires from inherited expectations

Understand when persistence has become a trap

Release guilt surrounding unfinished goals

Redefine success according to current values

Reduce the influence of comparison and external approval

Choose future goals that fit the life they actually want

Build greater confidence when changing direction

Some Goals Can Go offers a healthier relationship with ambition—one where changing direction does not erase past effort and success does not require pursuing every goal forever.

You are allowed to appreciate who you were, learn from what you pursued, and choose differently from where you stand today.