Here’s the Systemic Reason Why Your Goals Aren’t Working
A look at goals and systems, their connection between sports and business, and how to build a simple, sustainable system for your personal life
There’s a difference between aspirations and goals. Aspirations are divergent, while goals are convergent. Aspirations ideate what you want to achieve, but goals articulate how you want to achieve them. And you need both. Aspirations without goals keep you in the realm of fantasy. Achieving goals without aspirations is merely survival living. If you’re not careful, either extremity will keep you suspended from being meaningfully productive — whether it is the lofty ideals or the unfulfilling, measurable details. If, however, you marry your divergent dreams with convergent measurables, you can, with some discipline, achieve what you want.
But will your achievements be sustainable?
Systems Make Achieving Goals a Repeatable Occurrence
To sustain wins over the long-term, you need something in place that will make it easy to repeat the set of habits that helped you with the first achievement. A system is “a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network.” Let’s tailor…
