Are you goal- or process- oriented and how is this relevant to learning guitar?

I know.  This is a classic Myers-Briggs type question: are you focused on reaching your goals or the actual process of getting there?  And what does it have to do with learning classical guitar anyway?
I guess the short answer is that most of us who learn as a hobby are never going to be "finished" learning guitar, so striving towards lofty goals is destined for failure.  But what about more modest goals?  Surely they are appropriate ...

I've always had a love of learning and been a very goal-driven person.  Everything I do, I try to do 110%.  Since I started learning guitar (4 years ago now, somewhat less for classical guitar) I've been fueled by a need to improve.  I love playing; I love practicing; the process is enjoyable; but most especially so when I'm making progress!  In fact when things aren't progressing (or heavens! going backwards) I get really frustrated.  So I'm not sure if I'm really enjoying the process so much as enjoying the "doing" because I relish the results. I didn't see this as a problem, but it turns out being too goal-oriented definitely has its downsides.  I push myself quite hard, and recently this resulted in injury, rehab, and now more injury when I pushed my arm past its limits.  After the first injury I scaled things back, went to physical therapy, followed directions - and then when it was nearly better, threw everything out the window and went back to marathon  practice sessions.  I mean, I had all that downtime to make up for, right? - those goals were getting further away by the minute and I only have the one life to get there...  

Big mistake.

So, reluctantly, half heartedly, I've drastically cut back on how long and what I play.  No more than 15 minutes. Nothing that stresses the arm out, including the piece I'm currently working on (and I so wanted to get it finished so I could work on something new!) Nevertheless until just a few days ago, the thought of stopping playing to give the arm a rest was unthinkable even though my arm didn't seem to be getting much better.  There was my goal-driven self refusing to consider the most sensible course of action again.

But then something unexpected happened.  Because I had all this time to kill between those short sessions of actual playing, I started to do those 'other' music tasks I never had time for because I was too busy practicing.  I just set the timer to do something else for a while.  At first it was taking a stab at that

music theory workbook that got abandoned a year or so ago.  It had mostly fallen by the wayside because (a) it's difficult and (b) the goal (finishing the book and actually understanding it) seemed like a insurmountable task - it required so much work it was taking away from my practice time. However now I was assigning 'time' to the task instead of hurrying to finish, I found I was quite enjoying it.  No pressure: time to figure out how to play the examples on the keyboard and ponder the puzzling bits.  I found myself enjoying working on it, and going way over allotted time.

I found time for other things too...

• viewing music videos and podcasts 
• reviewing my "library" for  music-related books that I had never got around to reading ( I found a book with a cd with guitar ear training exercises on it - didn't even know I had it), so next is... 
• Ear-training 
• Sight reading (I'm forever setting out to do this every day then "forgetting") 

And there are still those tasks I haven't tackled yet, like making the microphone work again, visualizing music without the guitar... the list goes on.

Somewhere in all of this I found myself just enjoying the process. Really enjoying the process of just doing with no obvious goals in mind.  I think assigning "time" to them was the secret. And letting go of the need to reach a certain level of improvement in a particular session/week/month (after all, it was unrealistic at the moment).   In the process I might have discovered what drives those who are generally more process-oriented. As I explore this more in the coming weeks, I'm hoping it will redefine how I approach learning to play the guitar so that I can let go of the need to make progress in favor of appreciating the process and (hopefully) any improvements that result.