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This is the latest volume of the newsletter I send out every Monday Morning. It’s called Renaissance and is full of learning, inspiration, and dad humor.
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Why creating systems is better than setting goals.
James Clear is one of my favorite people when it comes to goals vs systems thinking.
He argues that:
Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous pre-success 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.
The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn.
The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system.
That’s a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.
So how can you apply this to your own life?
First, recognize that goals are still important as they tell you where you want to go in…
