Aaron Francis (@aaronfrancis.com)
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Aaron Francis (@aaronfrancis.com)
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 are the systems that cause those results. When you solve problems at the results level, you only solve them temporarily. In order to i... See more
James Clear • Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.
This was my first exposure to the idea that one should have a system instead of a goal. The system was to continually look for better options.
Scott Adams • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
All I’m suggesting is that thinking of goals and systems as very different concepts has power. Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.
Scott Adams • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
P: Hmmm, so you weren’t kidding when you said earlier that everything is a system, and my world is simply full of systems that either work or don’t, and we can always slow down to find the system that isn’t working and replace it with one that is.
Steve Chandler • The Power of Systems
A systems-first mentality provides the antidote. When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running