1 This is why you should set rough and unclear long-term goals.
2 I’m not sure if it’s still a thing or not, but for a while, when the economy wasn’t this bad, it was a very popular thing to make plans and vision boards for things like:
2-3 Get into shape, get abs
Get rich and famous with crypto and YouTube
Buy a Lamborghini before the age of 25
Or become a billionaire before the age of 29, not 30, for some very important reason.
1 Now I’m not here to shame anyone for what they want in life, because there’s a real need for a lot of these things in a lot of people, especially among certain groups of younger folks who fortunately still have ambitions… but unfortunately don’t know how to actually work towards those ambitions.
2 Because by the end of the day, most of these goals seem ambitious, clear, and motivating, but in reality, these goals are all just superficial lies that offer no value or solutions for anything, often just a quick one-liner of: “I want this thing before I get to that age.”
2 So often, when people are describing their goals, they’re describing what they want materialistically or financially, but never a real plan—a plan that’s feasible, both realistic and challenging, a plan that fits that person’s specific set of talents and skills.
1 It’s okay to be superficial, by the way, if you can utilize the superficial elements to achieve your goals and contribute to society you live in, which is the most recommended way to make good money, by the way—aka receive value/paychecks by providing values to the society you live in (Taylor Swift/other pop icons).
2 The problem with superficial lies, however (Andrew Tate), is they’re not your plan, and they’re not even a plan. Most people can’t wake up at 4 a.m. and don’t have the need to wake up at 4 a.m.
3 “Rich people don’t sleep!” (Steve reference)… I mean, if I can’t sleep when I’m rich, then, like, what’s the point of becoming rich? Just becoming a slave to my own wealth? That doesn’t make sense.
2 So instead of trying to live up to other people’s lives, here are some suggestions on how to set up rough goals in life that actually works, invented by this YouTuber alone, who, to be clear, doesn’t have a Ph.D. in the “science of how to get things done,” just like most other motivation/lifestyle American psycho content creators on the internet, which should give me at least the same amount of credibility as such, I hope. So, here we go… this is my formula for setting up goals in life,
1 You’re going to need:
2 Short-term tasks, which should be as clear and as specific, and as realistically challenging as possible, based on and supported by your long-term wants and needs in life, formulated into a single statement or two, that’s your long term goal btw, then, connected by mid-term checkpoints, which should be used to evaluate your short-term tasks and update your long-term goals if needed.
1 And I’m going to explain this formula by going through how lions hunt.
1 Say there’s a lion who has been starved for a while and is now ready to feast—and what’s that—a zebra, mother natural’s horse chocolate. That is our short-term task: hunt down the zebra so we don’t starve to death.
2 And now, you sneak up to the chocolate quietly and slowly, but all your muscles are ready to explode because you know the second this chocolate hears you, it’s going to run faster than any human chocolate ever could (white and black runner picture).
2 So, you need to forge a clear path to your prey while acknowledging that things may change. The chocolate could run away in very random, unpredictable patterns, but you must adapt to those unpredictable elements. That’s your mid-term checkpoints. You need to adjust your goals, your destinations, and sometimes you may even have to change them entirely. So instead of a horse chocolate, sometimes you may have to change to a human chocolate because, again, human chocolates are much easier to get.
1 And now, as you get closer and closer to your target, it’s time… to striker.
3 And as predicted, they hear you, they see you, they run away, and you chase, you adapt, you change your destinations accordingly. You strike—and you feast.
(Relaxing, eating, …)
1 The long-term goal for the lions is as rough as it gets, which is—survival.
1 In this metaphor, our lion hunts the zebra not by going to the endpoint where it gets the zebra, because in that case, the zebra would just run to somewhere else; but by chasing the zebra intensely from point A to point B, changing from point C to point D. A lot of things need to be changed in between, just like your plan to get what you want in life. But the long-term goal doesn’t have to be changed, as long as the goal is both generalized and individualized enough. In this case, it is survival, so for the lions, even if they don’t get the zebra, there are plenty of other things for them to hunt. (Human chocolate picture, blink and blink, as the joke)
2 The goal you set in life shouldn’t be extremely clear because it was never supposed to be—just like most scientific discoveries, medical innovations, and technological revolutions are all found with a certain element of luck and surprise, based on the flexibility of rough, yet somewhat directional, intentional long-term goals.
2 So, when someone wants, say, “I want to buy a Lamborghini before the age of 25,” is it really the car they want so badly—the specific model of Lamborghini—or the financial freedom and socioeconomic status they desire?
1 Similarly, if someone’s goal is, “I want to lose weight, get in shape, to 177.5 pounds,” and you ask them, “How did you come up with the number?” and they say, “Oh, that guy on the internet, who’s also 5’10, is this weight, so I decided this is the perfect weight for me as well.”
2 At that point, the reasonable desire of “wanting to be fit and healthy” is effectively murdered; instead, they’re obsessed with a specific number, which may not even be healthy for them individually. It could also be a false one because the other person is already fit, so they don’t have to weigh themselves that often, and 177.5 pounds might just be a number that sounds good.
2 And of course, they’re two completely different people with different genetics, ages, and environments—such as if one person lives in the States and the other lives in Japan, two completely different cultures in how people eat and live. Without knowing what’s going on in the other person’s life, setting up goals blindly just to mimic internet celebrities is a very good way to guarantee failure because that’s not your life, that’s someone else’s life, tailored for the likes and shares on Instagram.
1 So, if you have a material thing that you want in life but cannot yet afford, then it’s the financial comfort you seek, not the material thing you need. By achieving financial comfort with your specific set of talents and skills, you can eventually obtain that material thing as well, but as a bonus.
1 And if you want to get into shape, then having a rough weight you want to reach is important. Ideally, consult with some local gym rats, preferably those who don’t do the needles, and then get on a desirable diet instead of the unrealistic boiled chicken and broccoli diet, which is not only distasteful but also not that healthy—as you need fat to produce a healthy level of testosterones, which is crucial for weight loss and building muscles.
2 Remember: you need to discover what your wants and needs are in life, according to your current situation, problems, talents, and skills. Not everyone needs a billion dollars to be happy, and for most people, earning enough money while having enough free time is more than enough. By knowing what your wants and needs are, you’d like to achieve—that’s your long-term goal, which is supposed to be rough, kind of like a sketch for a great piece of art.
2 Then, break it down into digestible pieces—if you want to start reading hard books, you shouldn’t read more than a few pages a day if you haven’t read anything seriously since high school. Instead, you should give yourself only 10–15 minutes a day to establish the habit first, which is way better than getting 50 pages done today and then never opening the book again for the rest of eternity.
1 And as you get better, faster, and more effective with your job, your small tasks, or major projects, that’s when you should give yourself some mid-term evaluations—for example, when running a mile becomes relatively easy, that’s when you should consider adding half, perhaps even a full mile on top of it. And if you can’t run any more miles, you can try to run faster—there’s always room for more, as long as you leave yourself room for more. That’s why, if you’re just getting started in life, whether it’s graduating from school or changing your career, you should start with rough, unclear goals and get started first. Later, update your goals accordingly when you get better at it.
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