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Problem With Goals
What if you have only Goals, and no Systems?
- Win/Lose - Successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals.
- Momentary Change - Achieving a goal changes your life only for a moment.
- Either/ Or Conflict - Either you can achieve the goal and succeed, or you don't and are a failure.
- Goal vs Long Term Progress - What do you do after achieving the goal, your motivation mostly ends right after it's achieved. And you'll slip back to your old routines.
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Just as atoms are the building blocks of molecules, atomic habits are the building blocks of remarkable results.
JAMES CLEAR
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Massive Action vs 1% Improvement
Massive success is possible only through massive action, that's not true. It's the tiny improvements (hard to notice), that create incredible change.
The Math?
1% better every day for a year will compound to nearly 38 times better.
1% worse every day for over a ...
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The Truth About Progress
When we start something, we expect linear progress, but it's always a gradual unnoticeable small change.
James Clear calls the chase before the 'Breakthrough' as the "Valley of Disappointment", after which the compounding outcomes are seen. This needs
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Goals vs Systems
"Forget about Goals, Focus on Systems instead"
Goal - Result of what you want to accomplish
System - Processes that lead to results
Set SMART goals, but you could also succeed with just focusing on Systems.
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System of Atomic Habits
Atomic habits are small routines and behaviors that accumulate to produce incremental positive outcomes over time.
Big breakthroughs get more attention that small improvements, but what matters are the daily decisions and actions we take.
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Problems with goals
Yes, You heard it right! There are some problems with goals
- Achieving a goal is only a momentary change.
Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. It is always better to build a habit of cleaning your room daily instead of hoping for another b...
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 ...
Goals Can Act Against Long Term Progress
Would you continue striving to be better if you've achieved your goal?
When goals are made priority over your systems(habits), when you've achieved your goals, you are very likely to revert into your previous unproductive habits.
This is one way that focusing solely on goal setting ca...
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