Forget about goals, focus on building systems instead
- Goals are about the results that you want to achieve, but systems are about the processes that lead to those results.
- So forget goals, instead get busy building systems.
- Imagine you have a messy room and you set a goal to clean it and assume you cleaned it, but if you maintain the same habit that leads to the messy room, you will again get a room filled with clutter.
- Hence, to get a neat and tidy room, you need to build the system i.e. improve your habits.
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Most goals are out of our control. Our focus should be on systems rather than goals. In a system (repeatable process), your focus is on all the parts that you do control.
Reward effort instead of achievement: small gains compound over time.
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