Sometimes you get hit. You underperform. You come up against a major obstacle. Your project has a major setback. You step back to reassess your position and your approach. After all, you just got feedback of the most real, gut wrenching type and need to find out what went wrong and fix it.
Fix it.
There’s not a “bring the goal down a notch to make it reachable under the new circumstances” clause in there. You set out with a goal when you started and if you let every glitch knock it down a bit then you’ll get to the end and wonder where the real product is. It’ll take more work and it’ll be tough going, but how else do fantastic results happen? Don’t let your goal lose its luster in the struggle to get there.