Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

This morning, I want to challenge you with an idea, one that just might make your head explode.

You're going to see conflict in two opposing ideas,

but I'm going to do my darnness to enlighten you with the wisdom that lies between the two.

I want you to set goals. Then release your attachment to ever achieving them. Yep, you heard me

right. Care about having big goals, but don't care about achieving them.

First off, let me explain why to do this. Then I will get to the how to do this, to cure you of

this piercing cognitive dissidence headache. So setting goals is a very positive and powerful thing to do.

You know that, I know that.

Hell, I even wrote the book on it.

It helps you get from where you are

to where it is that you want to go.

Goals help you achieve all those things

that you desire and conceive.

Goals are great.

However, the very active setting those goals

makes you instantly unhappy. Identifying your

goals just pointed out all those things that you are not yet and don't have yet. Yet you desire

so badly. You just painted the gap, the gap of contrast, the great expanse that stands between

where you are right now and your desired

happiness. This is bad for your psyche, bad for your emotional state of mind. If you attach

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