If Goals Are Your Source Of Motivation, Stop Immediately

Goals. Are. Awesome.

Used right, they are effective tools for improving yourself and achieving your dreams.

For instance, I recently experimented with unreasonably high goals and found that they totally drive accomplishment.

I also feel that goals make any endeavor more exciting. They are like bacon: whatever you add them to, they’re going to make it better.

But your goal shouldn’t be the thing that’s pulling you forward. If it is, then something is seriously wrong.

The paradox of goals

A goal is something that goes away once you hit it.

Goals condemn one to go through a process where one has an unsatisfied desire, works to satisfy the desire and experiences pleasant but temporary feelings of desire-satisfaction as a byproduct when one reaches the goal.

What follows, is a void:

“This is the inner paradox of goals — they are valuable when we try to accomplish them, but someday they will disappear.” — Charles Chu

If you need goals to feel like your existence has a purpose, you’ll get addicted to them.

Some philosophers even think that humans cannot withdraw from the cycle of…