Tag: goals
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Boiling the Frog, Resolutionism, and Exercise
When it comes to changing your life, people always get a critical things wrong: they overvalue aspiration and undervalue planning. It’s understandable: apiration is easy and planning is work with the promise of ever more work to come. But the other, perhaps more powerful part of change that people get chronically wrong about life-change is […]
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How to Plan for a Change
Planning is an inexact art. Anyone who says different is delusional or a liar. What this means, practically, is that a plan that makes no allowances for slippage, screw-ups, and unexpected setbacks is bound to fail. A plan that doesn’t account for possible causes of failure damns itself to being, at the very best, inexact.