I did everything the motivational speaker said to do. I followed all the instructions in “Goal-Setting 101.” I was somewhat flexible as I made adjustments here and there as long as it didn’t seriously disrupt what I had written down to accomplish. But it just didn’t work out. Either something kept getting in the way of achieving my goal or I ended up where I didn’t anticipate. Am I a failure? Or was it that my highest and best good—my “co-created best”—just wasn’t in sync with my goal?