Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting, the 3rd installment in a 4-part series. And here’s the previous installment in this series.
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To set process-oriented goals, you have to ask different set of questions than those you run through to set up result-oriented goals. With result-oriented, you consider the effectiveness, impact, [...]
Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting. If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows. Also, read the previous installment.
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Instead of the common yet ultimately unreliable grounds on which to base our goals, we need to explore a different set [...]
This is the part 3 of a series on how to set process-oriented goals. In the last chapter, we learned what it means to be process-oriented and what the benefits are. Here, we’re going to look at how to set goals based on new paradigm, and start living the benefits of your goals right away.
In [...]
This is the 2nd chapter on a series on goal-setting. Here, we examine the 5 roles process-oriented goals play, and how much more reliable and empowering they are compared to result-oriented goals. Read the previous chapter
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In the 1st installment of this series, we identified 7 unhealthy motivations for [...]
Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting. If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows.
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The common approach to setting and pursuing goals has a potential to keep you away from living a joyful, satisfying life.
See if any of the 7 [...]
We all know that we ought to “do what we love to do.” Yet, a common misunderstanding prevents us from actually implementing. This essay takes away the fluff and uncovers the essence, the real truth about what it is that gives us life.
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Many of us [...]
Note: This is a digest version of the original entry on Path over Destination.
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If you choose careers and vocations, or even projects based on the benefits and destinations, you’re sure to have an unenjoyable life.
Because life is what happens when you’re on the way.
Instead, choose based on how enjoyable the process is. Because [...]
One of the games I play with my 4-year-old is a memory game.
You know, the one where you lay a bunch of cards facing down, and take turns turning two at a time, trying to find a match.
Every time I play that game, I think to myself, ah, this is how life is.
Think about it. [...]
In this little visualization exercise, you’ll explore an idealistic hypothetical situation, which will free your mind from the grinds of daily life and the reality of having to earn a living, to explore what you really want to spend your life doing. It will get you started down the path of finding and pursuing [...]
My wife found this book on the new book shelf of our local library. As she does with all other books, she read it very fast, handed it to me and said “you should read it.”
You know, my wife is never wrong with things like that.
The Dream Manager is a story (written by Matthew [...]
