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Goals

Here’s something to jostle your idea about goals:

Don’t set goals just because you think achieving them will make you happy.

Oh, it can feel really great sometimes, but research shows us that we are terrible at predicting how we will feel in the future. It turns out that goals serve a much more important role in our lives. Goals help us focus, and focusing, even on something that doesn’t necessarily mean a lot to us, almost always feels great.

Learning how to set inspiring goals is fundamental to making a life you believe in, and these articles are dedicated to helping you craft goals so you:

  • Stay motivated.
  • Learn how to find Flow in every task you do.
  • Embrace failure as you learn new things.
  • Achieve your dreams.

See how goals fit into the Pilot Fire Simple System for Everything.

More Articles about Goals

4 Easy Steps to Getting Focus and Making Progress with a “Good Goal”

Sorry if it’s true. It’s possible you suck at making goals. Whether you want to find true love, get rich, create an opus, or get in shape, taking the next step and making progress is all about how you define your goals. Before you start on anything, ask yourself what your goal is. And then

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As a Productivityist, the Practice of Productivity is the Goal

Being productive is one of the best feelings I know. Sure, it’s not the meaning of life, getting things done, but it sure feels great checking a bunch of tasks off my list, and when the things I get done are lined up with something big and important, that’s the best feeling of all. Productivity

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Come Get the Goggles. They’re ready for you.

You’ve seen us wearing the goggles, making our declarations, and helping each other do something big that really matters. They almost always do their magic, and they only cost the postage rate when you send them on to the next Pilot. It’s time to ask for your pair and join us. Get the goggles

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7 Great Reasons Why You Should Sing in an Opera or Do Something Just as Hard

I don’t like opera that much. I swoon to Jussi Björling’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, but that’s about it. I’ve never seen an opera in its entirety. That’s why it might seem odd that I’m singing in one, and I think you should, too, at some point soon. Here’s why, in story and list form.

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Ask for Help and Swim in the Bliss of Interdependence

With the first Pilots flying, it’s time to send them sweet smoke signals of support. Diana Gameros knows what it’s like to ask for help and get it. Last year in the final day of her kick starter campaign she raised over $5,000 to exceed her $20,000 goal. She used the money to hire a

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How to Do the Important Stuff: Join the Pilots of Pilot Fire

It’s time. Take a courageous tiny step into the air. Join the Pilots of Pilot Fire. It’s a new social network that I invented! Starting now and over the next few months I’m launching some very simple software tools to help you make a life you believe in. The first tool is called Big Really and I want you

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Fear, Giddy Anticipation, and Being There with Mark Sweeney

I do believe goals can provide a framework for a focused, attentive life, but there are people who present such a stark alternative that I question almost everything I know about happiness. Mark Sweeney was one of those people. From 25 years ago They had just found a brain tumor and were about to carve

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Wiggle. It’s Probably All We Can Do Anyway

I‘m very disturbed by the weight of evidence that leans away from our notion of “free will.” I spend a lot of energy telling people we have choices in how we behave, and we’ll lead better lives if we choose ours actions thoughtfully. I totally believe that, but I’m mostly wrong. If we do have

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How to Kick Ass, Unanswered Questions Answered

To try to kick ass or to not try to kick ass. That is not the question. The question is, how, or firstly, at what exactly will you try to kick ass. Then, how. I tried. With the help of my lexicon reflections, habit scrutinizations, and candid talk of turdliness below, you can learn from my mistakes

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One Damn Good Reason to Try to Kick Ass

One year ago I made an audacious public announcement that I was going to stop sucking and kick ass for 12 months. I bound myself to rigid rules and set big goals. With the support and wonderment of many loving humans I set out on a grand experiment to see if sticking to my plan

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