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One of the most important realizations I’ve ever had was that my happiness or fulfilment actually have very little to do with whether or not I achieved any particular goal. When you’re always focusing on “becoming” something else, you never allow yourself to experience the person you’re actually “being” in the present.
One of the five paradigm shifts I’ve adapted is to change how I look at goals, as well as how I go about achieving them.
Goals are simply a mental construct and can be whatever you create them to be. There’s no logic that can prove what goals you can achieve and which you can’t. Most goals have too many variables involved to say for sure either way.
When people say they have 3-month goals or 6-month goals, I can’t stand it. That’s a terrible habit to get into because these “goals” are set up for failure.The immediate future is the worst place to set your focus when it comes to goals.
I recommend that you envision what you want your ideal self or situation to look like in 3 years. Then reverse engineer what needs to happen in the first year to arrive at your ideal outcome at the end of the third year.
With the 1-year parameter you tend to put an extreme amount of pressure on yourself as opposed to with 3 years or more, there you’re much kinder to yourself.When you can disentangle all this emotional pressure you have bound up in your concept of goals you unlock flexibility as well as fulfillment as you go about achieving them.
Realistic and achievable long term goals without emotional pressure setting you back.
This article is based on an EHQ interview with the mentor.
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