The Only Goal Setting Guide You’ll Ever Need To Transform Your Future Self

This article was first published on NateAnglin.com.

Setting crappy goals isn’t your fault; nobody teaches you how to properly plan for the things that matter the most to you.

People clamor that “you must have goals” but fail to teach you how to choose the right goals.

When I started taking over my family business, everything was a guess in the early days. Most of my goals were financial, “surpass X in annual revenue.” I failed, flopped, and banged my head on the wall thousands of times, trying to hit this type of lazy goal.

I thought, because others say revenue is important, a standard business metric, it must be essential for me too.

But, slowly, I started to understand that magic happens if I set unique goals and broke them down into smaller chunks.

That’s the basis of an Optimized Goal, start huge, and break it down:

Before you decide what goals you think you want to pursue, you must learn to choose goals, not just set them.

Goals help you focus your finite attention on something important and meaningful.