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Your goals should scare you

Your goals should scare you

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A self-help tip I just saw: Your goals should scare you.

As in: your goals should be uncompromising things you would perhaps perceive as being unattainable.

Sounds suitably loin-gurding perhaps. But I don’t think is true or, at least, I don't think it's generalisable advice. You may disagree.

What bite-sized wise/folksie advice would you propose regarding one's goals?

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This is the right forum for a spiritual and philosophical theme like this!

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We may well be thumbing each other down anonymously.

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@fmf said
A self-help tip I just saw: Your goals should scare you.

As in: your goals should be uncompromising things you would perhaps perceive as being unattainable.

Sounds suitably loin-gurding perhaps. But I don’t think is true or, at least, I don't think it's generalisable advice. You may disagree.

What bite-sized wise/folksie advice would you propose regarding one's goals?
What bite-sized wise/folksie advice would you propose regarding one's goals?

JMHO - Your goals shouldn't scare you. Be it in chess, one's finances, fitness and health etc. goals are quite valuable if used correctly. I don't attain 90% of my goals in the time I've set for them, but the fact that I have them and are working toward them consistently has caused me to accomplish far more than if I had simply wandered aimlessly from one task to another with little structure.

Goals are a tool that help average people to attain above average things.

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An owl does not set a goal to eat a mouse.

(as far as I know)



Your goal is to be defeated by greater and greater challenges. That's pretty scary, but learning from mistakes is how people grow. People who can't admit they've made mistakes or been defeated turn out like Donald Trump: infantile narcissists, not grown up. And that's even more scary.