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How to Find New Year’s Goals That Actually Make a Difference
Especially for online creators
With the new year approaching, many take that as an invitation to reflect on their past year and to set goals for the upcoming year.
What we don’t necessarily reflect on are our underlying assumptions that inform how we even come to choose those goals.
The result is a bunch of resolutions that eventually neither improve our life, nor the lives of our Mitwelt (with-world).
The possible consequences?
- sense of failure and not quite belonging in this world
- drained energy
- endless struggle to win zero-sum games
- forever stuck in high-school dynamics
What a mess.
There is better ways of approaching our resolutions and goals — especially if our work is in online education or writing online.
This article is for those who are in the midst of resolut-ing and especially for those who write online.
The problem with most goals
Success comes in two related but distinct flavors: the socio-economic status dominant in adult life and the micro-social status, coolness, or popularity dominant…
