Forget about setting goals, focus on your systems instead

In the words of three-time Super Bowl winner Bill Wash, “The score takes care of itself”. On a day-to-day basis, stop monitoring the score constantly (sales, followers, etc.)… Focus on building a better system and the score will follow. A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems. Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals. Problem #2: Achieving a goal is only a momentary change. Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment. That’s the counterintuitive thing about improvement. We think we need … Continue reading Forget about setting goals, focus on your systems instead