The ultimate goal is like a classical catch 22 situation , the nearer you get to it (if at all you have one), the farther it goes away in the sense that you keep pushing it forward. Inherent greed(in the positive) sense will make sure you keep changing your "ultimate goal". I have a very simple example to illustrate. Consider the "daal makhani (my favo

) , I remember I used to relish it at the local dhaba when i was a kid , parents are out and dhaba was the way to go! Cost : 25 rs (may be! not really sure) , the same stuff at Nirulas : 60 rs , that same very thing at a nice restaurant : 150-ish and if at a 5 star or something : may be 250-500 ... Do we really think the cost increase is really justified? Can't we survive without tasting/eating at the high ends? Yes , we can , but in reality we do not. As the life style changes evolves the lower spectrum keeps going out and upper spectrum keeps filling in , you realise it or not , its unconsciously and quietly slips in slowly but surely.
That's the generic phenomenon happening with perhaps all spheres of our life .. professional , personal , social , cultural etc. You become a VP and you start think of SVP , once SVP , EVP seems to be the next target.
You start doing charity , think of helping out 2 poor students , once you achive that , you think you can do more, if at all you manage a orphanage you would want to expand for sure.
That's the way it goes. I personally take this same thing in form of challenges, I put forward some stuff to me , achieve it and then trash it after an evaluation. I definitely do not want to too deep in some stuff , but more breadth wise if possible. More variety seems to interest me, let's see where I end up in.
Thanks, Anil