How can you have goals, which are so important and yet be detached from them? To achieve detachment three key things would help:
1. Ensure your goals are larger than self. If goals are too self-centered they bring an element of fear and attachment that takes away from creativity, courage, and conviction.
2. Savor the journey – the joy of achieving goals is both in the journey and in the accomplishment.
3. Goals should not own you. “Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but nothing should own you.” Ali ibn abi Talib
Detachment is achieved when you have goals that are larger than self, that bring you joy while you are pursuing them and you do not allow possessions to own you.