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I have been wired to believe that to achieve better things in life, i need to set better goals. And so I go ahead and set specific, timely, measurable goals such as the following:
• I want to lose 30 pounds by May.
• This year, I want to publish 100 blog posts.
• This year, I’m going to read 24 books.
• In the next 6 months, I will launch my YouTube
channel and grow it to 1,000 subscribers.
my results have little to do with my goals. i can set the most measurable goals in place, and i can still fail to achieve them. Seriously—how often has that happened to you?
Goals are the targets i want to achieve while systems are the processes i put in place to help me achieve them.
Goals tell me where i want to go ; they’re focused on tomorrow
Systems tell me what i need to do every day to get there; they’re focused on today .
It was only when I understood this principle and began building productive processes to achieve the goals that I started to see swift advancements in my results.
WHY SYSTEM ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN GOALS
The challenge with setting goals is that they remove us for the present and stretch us into the future. We end up exerting more energy on themselvessetting goals than we do on planning and creating systems that would facilitate their achievement.
ONE REASON WHY SYSTEM ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN GOALS
- Goals create momentary change; systems create life-long change: If year after year, your goal is to read one book per month but you only manage to do it for the first month of the year and then fail for the other eleven, then you’re left chasing the same outcome because you never changed the system behind it. In order to
achieve better results, you must first address and fix the system that drives the negative results. “fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.
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