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287: Direction vs Goals: What the Difference is and Why it Matters

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Self-improvement, Education

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you often think about where you are going in life, or where you want to go? Today’s podcast is all about exploring this question, and why direction can be so much more impactful than just setting goals. Neil shares his perspective as a recovering addict, and how direction has helped him and those he has sponsored and getting in staying sober from their addictions. Current shares from the codependent’s standpoint of how direction can dictate Your peace, you’re happiness, and how much progress you were able to make as you head in the direction you choose.If this episode resonates with you, and you’re ready to dig in and do the work, then Define Your Desire is the perfect three step method to walk you through this process and get super clear on the direction you want to go in your life. Go to codafree.org to sign up or learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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CODieK slash Special Offer. We're going to start today's episode with a quotation from one of my favorite movies, Alice in Wonderland.

0:44.4

And this is when Alice is wandering around, she runs into the cat, the Cheshire cat.

0:49.5

And she asks the Cheshire cat, would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?

0:55.0

And the Cheshire cat says, that depends a good deal on where you want to get to.

1:00.0

And she starts saying, I don't much care where, and he cuts her off and says,

1:05.0

then it doesn't matter which way you go.

1:08.0

And Thomases Monson, he used this once in a talk too.

1:12.0

And the point of it is if you don't know where you're going

1:16.5

then it doesn't matter where you go and so we're going to talk about that because also because I got a

1:24.6

DM from someone a few weeks ago when I shared about well here I'll just read this

1:30.9

to you this was kind of like an Instagram journal entry. I do that sometimes

1:36.1

where I'll just like journal a thought. And I said this morning I woke up at like

1:40.4

4.30 and could not go back to sleep. I finally got out of bed about an hour later and

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