Goals Suck: Why the Obsession with Goal-Setting is a Flawed

Goals Suck: Why the Obsession with Goal-Setting is a Flawed Approach to Productivity and Life in General

Goals Suck!

When you have sex, do you take a timer and a legal pad into the bedroom to log the number of hip thrusts and grunts? Do you compile all of your data at the end of the week and plot it into a graph? Do you have goals for the number of times you have sex per month, the number of partners you have, or keep close tabs on how many minutes you can last for? Of course you donâ€™t. The very thought of setting and tracking goals in the bedroom is a complete absurdity!

Why is That?

Why does that strike you as absurd? You donâ€™t need goals in order to be motivated to have sex do you? Itâ€™s naturally enjoyable and requires no such outside motivation. More importantly, the thought of setting goals and tracking them would ruin the whole experience wouldnâ€™t it? But you set goals in all kinds of other areas. Why?

The Problem with Goals

Goals are something we use to incentivize ourselves to do things we wouldnâ€™t otherwise have the desire to do. There is something inherently wrong with this at its core. Goal-setting and tracking merely works to ensure that we spend more time doing things we arenâ€™t truly passionate about.

And if setting goals in areas that we do enjoy can take away from the natural enjoyment of those activities, and ruin our spontaneity, might setting goals actually make the actions required to obtain them less enjoyable? The answer to that question is â€œyes.â€

The Solution

If you stop setting goals, and focus on doing what you love with vigor and enthusiasm just for the sake of doing it, you ensure that your enjoyment of those activities stays high. And if your enjoyment stays high, you keep doing it consistently for years, you donâ€™t procrastinate, and you can achieve remarkable levels of productivityâ€”not to mention you are literally more efficient and intelligent when you are engaged in activities for pleasureâ€™s sake.

Put another way, you will go much farther in life much faster if you simply focus on doing what you are truly inspired to do with great passion rather than trying to will yourself to do something you donâ€™t really like doing with the outside help of goals. And you donâ€™t need goals to do what you love! They become completely obsolete. They can even jeopardize your success.

Goals Suck will help you understand the many flaws of the goal-setting approach to productivity and life in general, help you identify your true passions, give you the permission to follow them, and ultimately set you on the path to a life filled full of both great pleasure and achievement all wrapped into one.

Available as eBook, paperback, and audiobook narrated by the author.
Country USA
Manufacturer Archangel Ink
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-10-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Archangel Ink
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-10-15
Format	Kindle eBook

Goals Suck: Why the Obsession with Goal-Setting is a Flawed Approach to Productivity and Life in General

Goals Suck!

Why is That?

The Problem with Goals

The Solution

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