narcissist
Master Don Juan
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour - Henry David Thoreau
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Sow a thought, reap and action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
For years I have tried to understand the psychological factors behind the act of writing down goals and actually implementing them into my routine. I know that the function of writing down goals is to specify to ourselves the things we know that if we acted out consistently would make our lives better over time. But it is imperative to understand the essential assumption in the above statement; Goals are only useful if they are acted out in the world consistently. We conjure up in our minds with our imagination the possible world that we could inhabit in the future if we acted out our goals with reasonable consistency and this fills us with drive and ambition and moves us to sit down and jot on a piece of paper some goals that could lead us towards this possible world. I have come to realize that the actual strategy we implement in writing down goals is paramount in our actualizing this possible world and our future better self. This is because the way in which we write our goals down have causal barring on whether we act or don't. This is the simple function of a goal: to cause us to act the procedure out in the world.
I notice when people write out their goals, they make some fundamental mistakes that reduce the probability of their acting out the procedures their goals entail, which consequently proves to be counterintuitive to the function of the goal. Here is a short list of mistakes people make when they write out their goals that reduces the probability of acting out the procedures that would lead to the achievement of the goal.
Mistakes in setting up goals:
Of course, with setting up goals like this, you have the right path in mind. If you did these things your life would be better. The only problem is that you have no bearing for success and failure, you have not allowed yourself to stay temporally consistent, and you have no gauge to tell you when you have achieved them. With all these in mind you are likely to be lead to inaction: the fundamental toxin of achieving goals.
So, the way to best write out goals is to increase the probability of acting out the procedures that the goal entails. These few principles have helped me drastically in setting up my goals that ultimately lead to action. And do not forget that action is the most important thing. This is the function of the goal; to push you into action.
Principles for setting up goals that will lead to action:
Thus, your goal has to be the thing you know will make your life better that causes you to act out the entailed procedures necessary for its achievement, such that it is as easy as possible to do on a consistent basis, while also being challenging enough to strengthen the capacity to work towards more difficult goals in the future once the success of these procedures becomes second nature.
Thats it. I will show you how this looks with my goals. And please, use this thread as a goal tackling thread. I urge and encourage all of you to use this method and write down your goals in this thread. because the VERY FIRST THING to achieving goals is to write them down; to specify them in the world, to imagine the possible world where if you consistently acted in this way your life would be better.
MY GOALS USING THESE PRINCIPLES
This is so simple and so easy that I can easily do this. But look at the yearly progress. If i made the goals any harder I WOULD NOT DO THEM, and then it destroys the very function of the goal. There is also SUCCESS. I can succeed EVERY. SINGLE. FVCKING. DAY. And it's easy to do so! I am going to get used to succeeding. Stop setting up your goals so that you get used to failing!
Once again. Please use the below forum to set up your goals using these principles! I want this to be the official goals setting and achieving forum, and I genuinely believe that these principles will make us all better men and move us towards the best possible world that we all imagine in our heads.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Sow a thought, reap and action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
For years I have tried to understand the psychological factors behind the act of writing down goals and actually implementing them into my routine. I know that the function of writing down goals is to specify to ourselves the things we know that if we acted out consistently would make our lives better over time. But it is imperative to understand the essential assumption in the above statement; Goals are only useful if they are acted out in the world consistently. We conjure up in our minds with our imagination the possible world that we could inhabit in the future if we acted out our goals with reasonable consistency and this fills us with drive and ambition and moves us to sit down and jot on a piece of paper some goals that could lead us towards this possible world. I have come to realize that the actual strategy we implement in writing down goals is paramount in our actualizing this possible world and our future better self. This is because the way in which we write our goals down have causal barring on whether we act or don't. This is the simple function of a goal: to cause us to act the procedure out in the world.
I notice when people write out their goals, they make some fundamental mistakes that reduce the probability of their acting out the procedures their goals entail, which consequently proves to be counterintuitive to the function of the goal. Here is a short list of mistakes people make when they write out their goals that reduces the probability of acting out the procedures that would lead to the achievement of the goal.
Mistakes in setting up goals:
- Making the goal too general
- Goal: "I want to be a writer"
- Not specifying the way to success or failure
- Goal: "I want be a better person"
- Making the success to hard to achieve and the failure too easy
- Goal: "I want to sleep with a 10/10 every night when I go out"
- Making the time frame non-consistent
- Goal: "I want to save $1000 this year"
Of course, with setting up goals like this, you have the right path in mind. If you did these things your life would be better. The only problem is that you have no bearing for success and failure, you have not allowed yourself to stay temporally consistent, and you have no gauge to tell you when you have achieved them. With all these in mind you are likely to be lead to inaction: the fundamental toxin of achieving goals.
So, the way to best write out goals is to increase the probability of acting out the procedures that the goal entails. These few principles have helped me drastically in setting up my goals that ultimately lead to action. And do not forget that action is the most important thing. This is the function of the goal; to push you into action.
Principles for setting up goals that will lead to action:
- SPECIFY WHAT IT MEANS TO SUCCEED AND WHAT IT MEANS TO FAIL
- AND WHEN YOU DO SO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO SUCCEED
- with the added condition of making it challenging enough to develop the capacity to increase the difficulty of the procedures as you get used to succeeding
- MAKE IT AS TEMPORALLY CONSISTENT AS POSSIBLE
- preferably it should be something you do as a daily routine
- SPECIFY WHAT YOU WOULD ACHIEVE AFTER 1 YEAR OF DOING THESE INCREDIBLY EASY GOALS
- this is because you are supposed to make the goal as ridiculously easy as possible with the smallest amount of challenge and it will seem too easy and without the promise of development
- if you determine how much your life would improve after 1 year of doing these incredibly simple goals daily you will see their effectiveness
Thus, your goal has to be the thing you know will make your life better that causes you to act out the entailed procedures necessary for its achievement, such that it is as easy as possible to do on a consistent basis, while also being challenging enough to strengthen the capacity to work towards more difficult goals in the future once the success of these procedures becomes second nature.
Thats it. I will show you how this looks with my goals. And please, use this thread as a goal tackling thread. I urge and encourage all of you to use this method and write down your goals in this thread. because the VERY FIRST THING to achieving goals is to write them down; to specify them in the world, to imagine the possible world where if you consistently acted in this way your life would be better.
MY GOALS USING THESE PRINCIPLES
- Write 100 words per day (36500 words per year)
- Read 5 pages per day (1825 pages per year; equivalent to 9 books roughly)
- 1 approach per day (365 approaches per year)
- I have already been doing this in my 100 days 100 sets challenge and I have succeeded for the past 40 days > slept with 5 new women
- Meditate for 2 minutes a day (730 minutes per year; equivalent to 12 hours)
- Make a 1 minute YouTube video per month (12 Youtube videos per year)
- Apply for 1 job a day (365 applications a year)
- Drink 1 healthy shake per day (365 shakes per year)
- Clean for 5 minutes per day (1825 minutes of cleaning per year; equivalent to 30 hours of cleaning)
- Stretch for 5 minutes per day (1825 minutes of stretching per year)
This is so simple and so easy that I can easily do this. But look at the yearly progress. If i made the goals any harder I WOULD NOT DO THEM, and then it destroys the very function of the goal. There is also SUCCESS. I can succeed EVERY. SINGLE. FVCKING. DAY. And it's easy to do so! I am going to get used to succeeding. Stop setting up your goals so that you get used to failing!
Once again. Please use the below forum to set up your goals using these principles! I want this to be the official goals setting and achieving forum, and I genuinely believe that these principles will make us all better men and move us towards the best possible world that we all imagine in our heads.
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