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Systems Instead Of Goals
Setting a goal is easy, just like marking a date on the calendar. The real challenge is always the willingness to accept what we need to do daily to achieve those goals.
We need to design a system that has to be practiced daily, as the commitment to a process provides the compound effect. Example: Learning should not be limited to college, but should be a lifelong system imbibed in your pursuit of knowledge, enriching your life and making you a better person.
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Self-Improvement: 1 Percent Daily
- We are never done improving ourselves. We need to do certain things daily to achieve and maintain our success. The first steps are not easy, but taking small actions is progress, while not taking any action isn’t.
- Kaizen is about the 1 percent improvement that we can focus...
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Little Things Into Big Things
When we improve a little on a daily basis, big things occur over time. We need to stop focusing on radical, sudden improvements, as quick-fixes aren’t lasting anyway.
Consistent and sustainable gains are only achieved by small, incremental improvements on a daily ...
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The Small Steps That Change Your Life
Kaizen, which means continuous improvement in Japanese was originally developed by Depression-Era management gurus in the US. The Japanese embraced the idea of improving and thriving in small steps, as opposed to working on a BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal).
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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
MIKE MURDOCK
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“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
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Focus on Systems Instead of Goals
Most goals are out of our control. We have limited control to reach them. In a system, your focus is on all the parts that you do control. And system is a fancy word for “repeatable process”.
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Care For Your Goals
If the habits that you are trying to inculcate in you are dear to you, you won't need much motivation or willpower.
Setting goals related to what we care for provides us with the best use of our limited energy and it gives us a bigger probability to succeed.
Systems And Goals
When we are working towards a goal, it is crucial to building a system that will eventually make you reach it. Systems are self-driven daily behaviours that guide and remind you towards what’s really important, and how not to get lost in life.
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