Celestial Goals

Setting goals and working towards them are good antidotes to routine’s downsides. We are proactive rather than reactive, creative rather than staid. But we can undermine our goals if we are also emotionally driven. When the going gets tough and the goals are not...

• Goals are about the results you want to achieve.
• Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.
• Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
• The purpose of setting goals is to win the game.
• The purpose of build...

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. That’s the counterintuitive thing about improvement: We think we need to change our results, but the results are not the problem. What we really need to change...