Goals are out.
Experiments are in.
I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago and an interesting idea was suggested by one of the guests. We have these big ideas about goals and resolutions and accomplishments, but maybe we’re wrong about all that. Thinking about self-improvement or personal projects as zero-sum must-achieve-end-state goals may be leading a lot of us to premature notions of failure.
Instead, the guest suggested, we should be thinking about these things as experiments.
Rather than saying “I’m going to blog every weekday, forever.” maybe we should be saying something like “I wonder how many days in a row I can blog before I run out of ideas.”
The first is a goal that is (probably) bound for failure.
The second is an interesting experiment in personal acheivement that ends with an answer and some self-knowledge.
It’s a little mental shift, but a big change in attitude, huh?
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