How to Wake Up Excited About Your Goals - Chris Bailey - #1077

Given all of the work that you've done, why is it that some goals feel effortless and others feel like a chore? Yeah, it's such an interesting question. And that that was what I wanted to figure out with this book because I I find with my own life, I'm I'm productive on a daily basis, I'm focused on a daily, as you would hope, g given I study this stuff for a living, looking at the research for this stuff for a living. But there were still goals that kind of fell by the wayside for me.

You know, there exercise equipment that was in the basement that I hadn't really followed through with, you know, things that didn't really fire me up inside that I found that I wasn't really accomplishing. And so that that was what set me on this journey to write this book is seeing that we all have a sort of graveyard of forgotten goals. Every single person on the planet does. And so what is it that actually separates the goals that we're able to achieve and follow through with from the ones that we're not.

And you you you when you dig into the research on this topic, so I I dug into the academic literature on this topic, I actually spoke with a lot of Buddhist monks who, you know, know more about intentionality than almost any demographic, I would argue, even the the scientists that study intentionality and goal attainment, all in an effort to, to untangle that web. of essentially goal attainment, right? Why is it that we attain some goals and others they feel meaningless, we procrastinate on them, that we procr, you know, we we kick them down the street for another day or they're just not something that fires us up inside. And so you you discover a web of factors. You do you discover, you know, procrastination is is one uh angle, right?

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