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Okay, I'm about to tell you why your New Year's goals are plotting against you.

Like serial killers, living in your own home.

Let me paint you a picture, okay? It's January 1st. You're sitting at your kitchen table,

pen in hand, heart full of hope. You start writing your beautiful list of dreams. Lose 30 pounds,

read 50 books, learn guitar, start meditating, launch a side business,

get up at 5 a.m., eat clean, exercise daily, whatever it is. You look at your list,

oh, how wonderful you admire your list. Ten gorgeous goals, 10 paths to transformation,

10 tickets to a better life, or so you think. But, dun, dun, dun, dun, what you don't realize is you just

invited 10 assassins to live in your brain, and they're about to murder each other. Here's what

happens inside your head, starting January 2nd. Goal number one whispers, hit the gym at 6 a.m.

Goal number two interrupts, wait, you should read first. Knowledge is power. Goal 3 butts in. Actually, you should meditate. Center yourself first. Goal 4 screams, no, work on the business plan. That's your future. By 7 a.m., you've done nothing. Your brain is a war zone. Your willpower is bleeding out.

This isn't motivation.

This is cognitive genocide.

Scientists call it goal competition.

I call it goal homicide.

Because that's what happens when you set multiple goals.

They don't support each other.

They don't cheer each other on.

They don't work as a team.

They fight to the death for your attention, for your energy, for your focus. And while they're fighting, you're losing. Research proves this. They gave people multiple goals with specific action

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