287: Direction vs Goals: What the Difference is and Why it Matters
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 39 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, to get and stay sober from their addictions. Corrine shares from the codependent’s standpoint about how direction can dictate your peace, happiness, and how much progress you are 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.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to start today's episode with a quotation from one of my favorite movies, Alice in Wonderland. |
| 0:17.7 | And this is when Alice is wandering around, she runs into the cat the cheshire cat and |
| 0:23.5 | she asks the cheshire cat would you tell me please which way i ought to go from here and the |
| 0:29.8 | cheshire cat says that depends a good deal on where you want to get to and she starts saying i |
| 0:35.3 | don't much care where and he cuts her off and, then it doesn't matter which way you go. |
| 0:41.6 | And Thomas Sonson used this once in a talk too. |
| 0:45.6 | And the point of it is if you don't know where you're going, then it kind of doesn't matter where you go. |
| 0:52.8 | And so we're going to talk about that because, also because I got |
| 0:57.9 | a DM from someone a few weeks ago when I shared about, well, here, I'll just read this to you. |
| 1:05.3 | This was kind of like an Instagram journal entry. I do that sometimes where I'll just like journal a thought. And I said this |
| 1:12.5 | morning I woke up at like 4.30 and could not go back to sleep. I finally got out of bed about an |
| 1:17.5 | hour later and went downstairs and started writing. I made a big long list of all the things I'm |
| 1:22.2 | grateful for. And it's a picture of you. And I, this guy and so many of his qualities made the list |
| 1:28.0 | over and over. And then I made a list of where I want to go, not goals, not dreams, |
| 1:34.7 | direction. There's a difference. And if you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter |
| 1:39.0 | which way you go. And somebody wrote me back and said, can you talk more about this, the difference |
| 1:43.6 | between goals versus direction? |
| 1:46.7 | So we're going to talk about that today and about how I've created this brand new product |
| 1:52.1 | that I'm so excited about that's launching October 1st. |
| 1:55.1 | So if you're listening to this on the day that the podcast comes out, Monday, whatever |
| 1:59.2 | it is, Monday is the 31st, 30th, 31st, October 1st, Tuesday |
| 2:04.8 | is when Define Your Desire launches. |
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