The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Alternative goal setting, how free spirits and Slow Burners can achieve their health visions.

I'm a type A personality, so setting and attaining goals comes naturally to me.

I desire a thing, determine the steps necessary to attain it, and follow through.

It's how I work best.

Thanks to some timely comments from my decidedly untype

wife, Carrie, I've realized something. Much of my advice is unwittingly geared toward people with

similar inclinations, but that doesn't describe everyone. What about the rest of you? What about the

slow burners and dreamers? The free spirits.

When it comes to achieving a vision, what characterizes and organizes your process from desire to

attainment? Conventional wisdom tells us significant changes require that we establish and adhere to

a list of preset action items,

all in a concrete trajectory towards success.

The problem is this falls flat with some people.

They might adhere for a while but lose interest because being hemmed in doesn't fit their lifestyle or their personality.

They don't lack motivation.

Some of us are simply more exploratory and squirrelly by nature.

Chalk it up to the perceiving or an intuitive perceiving on the Myers-Briggs or whatever

you will, but it's different strokes for different folks.

Aside from the basic physiological nuts and bolts, hominids can be frustratingly variable and amazing

that way.

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