Back in the eighties, I heard a Danish radio host say the following words: "Only rarely things go according to our dreams - and if they do, our dreams have been too small."
There quite a lot of truth in ths. We do wisely when we set goals for ourselves. Of course these goals shall not be unobtainable. But if they are too small and too easy to accomplish, and if we do not set gradually bigger goals, already while we are in the process of meeting the current goals, we are at risk becoming satisfied with too little, and then we end up catching ourselves in the straitjacket of complacency.
And that is no nice place to end up in.
(Translated from Selvtilfredshedens spændetrøje)