Re:Ask HN: Failed to meet all my 2019 Goals, how to make sur...
by muzani on Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:25AM
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Don't pay too much attention to the goal. The purpose of the goal is to get you to plan. Plans are worthless; the act of planning is invaluable.
Once you have the goal and the plan, design a process for it. It should excite you. If it doesn't, you simply don't have faith in the plan and need to fix the plan until it's something you're excited to do.
Sometimes plans are hard, and so get a mentor. A mentor can be as simple as a book. Or sometimes pay to have an hour long chat with someone. But you need to trust the process.
Then ditch the goal. Don't look at it. A runner doesn't look at their stopwatch. Just have faith in the process and keep at it.
If you didn't do well that year, then you rip apart your process like a machine and analyze what you did wrong or could do better. You're doing that now. Just keep at it.
Once you have the goal and the plan, design a process for it. It should excite you. If it doesn't, you simply don't have faith in the plan and need to fix the plan until it's something you're excited to do.
Sometimes plans are hard, and so get a mentor. A mentor can be as simple as a book. Or sometimes pay to have an hour long chat with someone. But you need to trust the process.
Then ditch the goal. Don't look at it. A runner doesn't look at their stopwatch. Just have faith in the process and keep at it.
If you didn't do well that year, then you rip apart your process like a machine and analyze what you did wrong or could do better. You're doing that now. Just keep at it.