You Need to Set Impossible Goals To Achieve Your Actual Goals

A technique used to hack, your mind into believing — motivating it to achieve your real goals.

Riku Arikiri
ILLUMINATION

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Have you ever been told, that it’s impossible for you to achieve your target within a day?

I’m sure you have been. I got tired of hearing that and decided to change that for myself by pushing towards creating impossible goals that I could meet. It helped me to achieve my actual goals for the day that was in between sets as milestones.

“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”

— Franz Kafka

The idea behind impossible goals is the motivation to achieve something others deem not possible. It is a motivational technique employed using goals that purposefully push you to meet deadlines. It removes the headache of dissatisfaction with work instead it pushes you to something extraordinary in the process.

An impossible goal can be as simple as writing a research paper in an entire day. This type of goal setting is usually done when your spirits are at their lowest. I know most days when you’re suffering from…

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Riku Arikiri
ILLUMINATION

It’s never black or white. Sometimes there’s a bit of spicy red in there as well.