Why goal setting is not negotiable

97% of creators have experienced this same exact problem at least once in their lifetime - feeling that life is meaningless.

The lonely nights, the unproductive mornings, wasting countless hours looking at a screen, avoiding people, getting locked inside their bedroom.

It all comes down to this simple conclusion:

Without goals, you have no direction. No purpose. You merely exist. Probably, you even commit various forms of self-destruction. Doom scrolling, smoking, drinking, doing drugs, playing non-stop video games, you name it.

If you don’t set any goals for yourself, you basically wander into space always looking for something to hook in. You chase dopamine. Cheap fast dopamine.

Most likely, you are tired of feeling like this. You want to regain your focus, and your ability to move fast towards a single direction. So, I cannot stress out how important it is to have a tangible goal in your life. Something to guide you towards a desirable outcome. A better way of living.

Goal setting creates order in your life. It brings clarity. The good life demands consistent effort toward your own goals.

Goals are for vision and filtration

If you don’t filter opportunities through your goals, your attention will bounce around mindlessly toward shiny objects. Setting a simple goal can change the way you perceive opportunities. Goals can be used as filters, to separate signals from noise.

It doesn’t matter if the goal is big or small. What matters is that you’re heading towards somewhere better. Your actions start aligning with your goal, and this is how you move forward.

How to craft a goal quickly:

When you lose direction, you need clarity. Grab a notebook and start brain dumping. Empty your mind. Once you’re finished, take a look at what you just wrote. Look for patterns. See what you’re really asking from yourself. Then, turn the page and organize everything. Make your desires crystal clear. After that, you need to make a plan on how you’ll get there. Make it as actionable and simple as possible.

For example, you want to build a strong and beautiful body. That’s the goal. Turn this into a project that you’ll act on a daily basis:

Training full body on the weekdays, legs on Saturday, and doing cardio on Sundays. Combine this with a proper sleep schedule and a working diet, consistently for 6 months. And here you go, you just made yourself a project.

“Humans are happiest when moving toward a goal they have the clarity and skill to achieve. Humans are saddest when standing still thinking about a big goal.” - Dan Koe 

Turn your goals into meaningful projects, and then those projects into more manageable daily tasks. Set deadlines. Break your goals into smaller ones that you can attack right here and now.

One meaningful project. One hour of focused work. One day at a time, without waver. That’s the secret you’re looking for.

Dan Koe’s philosophy insists that you need a vision and an anti-vision. Something to run towards and something to run away from. In this way, you narrow your focus on what you truly want out of life.

Make a goal conscious. Create a path to achieve it. Focus your attention on priority actions. Be consistent with it.

Decision making:

Better decisions boil down to pausing, zooming out to gain perspective, perceiving the situation through the lenses of your goal, and acting regardless of how you feel.

A meaningful goal provides vision. It frames your mind to notice important information that will help you achieve that goal. Opportunities pass you by every minute because you don’t have anything to apply them to. It just makes sense setting a goal.

What are you waiting for? Go do it right now. I command you. Do it for yourself.

Big irrational goals. Small rational steps.

If you made this far, your attention span is above average, and I admire you for that. You stand out in a world that is lost. And you probably like reading.

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Thank you for reading and see you on the next one.

Mystic Jimmy.