This is Optimal Health Daily. Break free from goals by Leo Bavada of MNMList.com.

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as we optimize your life. Break free from goals by Leo Babouda of MNMlist.com.

One of the unshakable tenets of success in productivity literature is that you need to have goals

in order to be successful. See Seth Godin on this, he's someone I respect, by the way. And from this

tenant comes all sorts of other beliefs. You need to set goals the right way, such as the smart

method. You need to break goals down into actionable tasks. You need to have

deadlines and time frames. You need to make goals the focus of your day. I know this because I've

believed it and lived it and written about it for a long time, until recently. Until recently,

I'd always set goals for myself, short-term and long-term ones, with action lists.

I've made progress to each one and accomplished a lot of goals.

And from this traditional viewpoint, I've been successful.

So no argument there, goals work and you can be successful using goals.

But are they the only way?

More recently, I've moved away from goals, broken free of the shackles of goals.

I've liberated myself because goals are not ideal. In my way of thinking, they are artificial.

You aren't working because you love it. You're working because you've set goals. They're constraining.

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