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Why Work Without Goals?
For many years I was fixated on goals, but at the same time was also simplifying my work life and working on being more content. I realized two things:
For many years I was fixated on goals, but at the same time was also simplifying my work life and working on being more content. I realized two things:
- Goals (wanting to improve) are not consistent with contentment (being happy with where you are).
- Goals are not necessarily necessary (I thought they were for a long time, but t
Leo Babauta • Achieving Without Goals - zen habits
Her story certainly isn’t unusual. Students preparing for their exams think, If I pass, life will be rosy. Company workers think, If I get transferred, everything will go well. But even when those wishes are fulfilled, in many cases nothing about their situations changes at all.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
On the pathless path, the goal is not to find a job, make money, build a business, or achieve any other metric. It’s to actively and consciously search for the work that you want to keep doing.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Because they conflate ambition with the single-minded pursuit of an end destination, traditional methods of pursuing goals have an effect counter to their intent: they create a discouraging perspective where we are far from success. Our satisfaction—the best version of ourselves—lies somewhere in the future.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Efforts and Goals and Joy
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