Goals are highly overrated. Hear me out: Goals feel good in the moment, and give you that hit of dopamine when you think about them, but aren’t always realistic and sometimes don’t leverage your best skills. In this article I’m going to cover how to switch from a goals mindset to a directional mindset which totally changed my life over the past 2 years and is the single reason why this newsletter exists. But first a quick word from a sponsor who allows me to keep creating content:
Thank you, it is an excellent post. Your thoughts are very similar to the ‘’Atmamun‘’ philosophy. You wrote about Naval Ravikant, and he has a mentor, whose name is Kapil Gupta. You can find his book about ‘’Atmamun'' on Amazon.
I like your idea of a directional mindset when you aren't yet clear what you want to focus on. Some people have very clear and specific goals. For example, students who attend Embry Riddle Aeronautical University are clear about wanting to be pilots. Their milestones march them, step by step, toward their goal.
If the goal is more of a pipedream, then creating opportunities that open doors to explore makes a lot of sense. It sounds like that's what you have been doing. You have, however, stayed somewhat in your 'lane' - technology. And that makes sense. You have created milestones within that lane that have led you to NFT, which opened the door to writing, and subsequently to your Substack, which is reaping dividends.
Your initial goal of escaping the 9-5 may be in sight, perhaps just through a different door than you originally imagined. I'm rooting for you.
Excellent points here! I take a similar approach to my goals, but I still call them goals. However, your newsletter made me rethink this.
I set goals every quarter but I revisit and readjust them each quarter. I hardly know where I’m going to be in a year but I like to set targets each quarter.
I adjust and drop goals regularly throughout the quarter, I’ve set goals that I changed after a week because I quickly realized I didn’t want it as much as I thought.
Python is a huge step in your journey & I respect your grind. I’m learning more to develop & use my skills to grow to new heights after being forced to work for a grade or academic degree for 20+ years.
A bit late in reading this one, Alex, but loved it as always. To be honest, I stopped focusing on goals myself years ago after falling in love with the Japanese concept of kaizen. It was actually one of my first Motivational Minutes of the new year right after I had joined the 1% Club 🫶
For me having clear goals helped the most. Before I was moving in the right direction but I wasn't tracking the metrics so had no idea what my progress was.
Excellent post, fam. As a professional web3 dev and DAO contributor, I can say they learning to code is the best thing I did. And it is never too late to craft this skill. Start with the basics, don’t cheat on lessons, and you will eventually get it.
I’ve always felt a little lost as I can never really answer questions like “where do you see yourself in 5/10 years time”. I’m like, “I don’t know... dead”. 😅😅
But with this newsletter I know how to answer that question. I’ll say “I don’t know, but what I do know is the direction I want to go in”’.
This makes much more sense and made me realise it’s okay to pivot from time to time 👍👍
Thank you, it is an excellent post. Your thoughts are very similar to the ‘’Atmamun‘’ philosophy. You wrote about Naval Ravikant, and he has a mentor, whose name is Kapil Gupta. You can find his book about ‘’Atmamun'' on Amazon.
I like your idea of a directional mindset when you aren't yet clear what you want to focus on. Some people have very clear and specific goals. For example, students who attend Embry Riddle Aeronautical University are clear about wanting to be pilots. Their milestones march them, step by step, toward their goal.
If the goal is more of a pipedream, then creating opportunities that open doors to explore makes a lot of sense. It sounds like that's what you have been doing. You have, however, stayed somewhat in your 'lane' - technology. And that makes sense. You have created milestones within that lane that have led you to NFT, which opened the door to writing, and subsequently to your Substack, which is reaping dividends.
Your initial goal of escaping the 9-5 may be in sight, perhaps just through a different door than you originally imagined. I'm rooting for you.
Excellent points here! I take a similar approach to my goals, but I still call them goals. However, your newsletter made me rethink this.
I set goals every quarter but I revisit and readjust them each quarter. I hardly know where I’m going to be in a year but I like to set targets each quarter.
I adjust and drop goals regularly throughout the quarter, I’ve set goals that I changed after a week because I quickly realized I didn’t want it as much as I thought.
Thanks for the great read! Excellent post
Python is a huge step in your journey & I respect your grind. I’m learning more to develop & use my skills to grow to new heights after being forced to work for a grade or academic degree for 20+ years.
Great thoughts NFTGOD.
A bit late in reading this one, Alex, but loved it as always. To be honest, I stopped focusing on goals myself years ago after falling in love with the Japanese concept of kaizen. It was actually one of my first Motivational Minutes of the new year right after I had joined the 1% Club 🫶
https://twitter.com/ThePhunky1/status/1609931570298904577?s=20&t=1RI285b9ZHgPEpulqONDuw
For me having clear goals helped the most. Before I was moving in the right direction but I wasn't tracking the metrics so had no idea what my progress was.
Excellent post, fam. As a professional web3 dev and DAO contributor, I can say they learning to code is the best thing I did. And it is never too late to craft this skill. Start with the basics, don’t cheat on lessons, and you will eventually get it.
This makes sense.
I’ve always felt a little lost as I can never really answer questions like “where do you see yourself in 5/10 years time”. I’m like, “I don’t know... dead”. 😅😅
But with this newsletter I know how to answer that question. I’ll say “I don’t know, but what I do know is the direction I want to go in”’.
This makes much more sense and made me realise it’s okay to pivot from time to time 👍👍
This helped thank you ❤️❤️