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Choose Systems Over Goals

Choose Systems Over Goals

  • If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out.
  • Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.

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