Forget About Your Goals
Focus on your systems
The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed means that patience is required.
That is why you must forget about goals and focus on systems.
A goal is the result you want to accomplish.
Systems deal with the processes that lead towards desired results. If you only focus on your systems and forget about your goals, would you still succeed?
Problems with goals are:
Winners and losers have the same goals. That means that this cannot be what differentiates winners from losers.
It is only a momentary change. After you achieve your goal, you will fall back because of your system.
Goals can create an either-or conflict. Either you achieve the goal and succeed or you are a failure.
When you achieve a goal what do you do after? When you accomplish your goal, your motivation will drop, and you will slip back to your old routines. Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
If you really want to set goals make them very actionable.
For example:
A bad Goal:
“I want to get healthy.”
A good goal:
“I’m eating only one plate which is 1/2 filled with veggies for dinner”.
A goal has to be very actionable and clear and should follow a bigger vision.
-Bendix Schroeder