How to Set Goals You Will Actually Achieve
a stopgap for restarting publishing my writings on substack
Sharing one of my favorite posts of all time https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/08/how-to-set-goals-you-will-actually-achieve/ — some excerpts and some thoughts I had
The only value in goal-setting is that it improves the quality of your present moment reality. Setting goals can give you greater clarity and focus right now. Whenever you set a goal, always ask yourself, “How does setting this goal improve my present reality?” If a goal does not improve your present reality, then the goal is pointless, and you may as well dump it. But if the goal brings greater clarity, focus, and motivation to your life whenever you think about it, it’s a keeper.
Goals excite you right now. I want to attend MIT or I want to work at Jane Street or I want to get a corgi or I want to mentor and inspire people to empower themselves
Set goals that yield a positive effect on your life whenever you think about them, long before the final outcome is actually achieved. … As you think about how your goals improve your present reality, eventually you’ll feel motivated to take action.
Goals that draw you toward them. You naturally follow through with them, no commitment needed.
you’re really setting goals for the present
Feeling directionless? Pick a goal that inspires you now!
Understand that it’s the compelling goal — the vision — that creates the drive, not the other way around. … Focus. Focus. Focus.
Pick one clear goal and go at it with monomaniacal intensity. Then rest, relax, and repeat.
Steve Pavlina, Earl Nightingale, other self dev people, etc etc etc
HI FRIENDS, speaking of exciting goals, why don’t you start your own Substack?
Whatever goal you decide, I’d love to host you on my podcast, “CoderCorgi Connection” — where we together seek our most inspired selves.
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