Forget Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. | Entrepreneur
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.
Throughout my career I’ve had my antennae up, looking for examples of people who use systems as opposed to goals. In most cases, as far as I can tell, the people who use systems do better. The systems-driven people have found a way to look at the familiar in new and more useful ways. To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. That’s literally true mo
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The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.