#588 How to Decide Which Goals to Give Up

Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast, and you are listening to one of our squiggly shortcuts. Where in a very short amount of time we explain something that we think is going to be helpful for your career and give you some simple ideas you can put into action. And today I want to talk about goals, but not what I would normally talk about because I love goal setting and I love Matrices that help us plan and set our goals. But today I want to talk about giving up on your goals. And it's because there is

I I actually came across a word. grind set that has gone into the dictionary, which is this idea that grit and grinding it out is supposed to be really good for people, but actually knowing when to give up on a goal is equally important. And I think there is a lot of focus on setting goals and sticking to them. And I think there's a lot less of a conversation about knowing when to give up on a goal. And so what we're trying to talk about here is something that's called productive Quitting.

It's not about just goal abandonment, like starting loads of goals and just letting them go randomly, because that often doesn't feel like something that you are in control of. This is about being conscious about the goals you continue with and the goals that you kill. And there's actually a really good article that I will link to in the show notes from The New Scientists, which dives into this deeply. But there's some elements of that article that I wanted to talk to you about today because I think it is some quick shortcuts that might help you think differently about goals.

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