I began 2020 by giving up on all my goals.
This is rather ironic because I still work 1-on-1 with a handful of coaching clients on well…achieving their goals.
And perhaps even more bizarre because I’ve taught my spin on classic goal-setting strategies to more than 50,000 students via online courses.
(My latest year-long DailyOM class, in fact, actually has an entire month on the topic).
So what shifted for me in 2020?
It’s not that I don’t stand behind everything I teach.
That stuff really works.
Every day, I get emails from people around the world who are making breakthroughs in their lives via those lessons.
It’s just I’ve shifted my perspective about it all.
I’ve put goal setting into the distant background…and IDENTITY (via HABITS) into the foreground.
The question I’m asking myself (and others) in 2020 is:
Who are you actually being…because of what you are actually consistently doing?
Let me explain…
A game-changing quote for me came from James Clear in his awesome book Atomic Habits:
You do not rise to the level of your goals.
You fall to the level of your systems.
The most perfectly defined goals in the world are unachievable––in fact, absolutely useless––if you don’t first and foremost have the right systems, the right habits set up to support them.
Focus on your habits (good and bad), in other words, and your goals will (more or less) take care of themselves.
I have a lot more to share about this topic, but for now, I want to leave you with these 2 questions…
As this new decade begins:
1. WHO is it you really want to be in the world…?
2. WHAT HABITS, what steady behaviors, do you need to establish (or eliminate / transform) in order to make that happen…?
Namaste for Now,
