Don’t Let Your Big Goals Intimidate You: Break Them Down into Smaller, Meaningful Steps
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Productivity
Sometimes it’s better not to set goals or make big promises. A goals can help you stay on track, but it can also become a mental burden that kills the entire endeavor.
So rather than put a strain on your brain with an enduring thought of a grand end result, such as “Write a book on seabed hunting,” you will feel less pressure every day if you choose to focus on immediate actions that slowly affect the long run: (in the case of writing the aforementioned book) writing your thoughts down, structuring them, drafting, revising, etc.
I’ve just returned from a trip to Europe (which is why we haven’t had any updates, sorry). I highly recommend that you visit Trier if you happen travel around western Germany or Luxembourg in summer—the green hills just make you feel as if you had ventured right into the heart of Hobbiton; and the home of Karl Marx and Emperor Constantine offers a tranquil break from the hustle and bustle of the bigger European cities. I’m still in travel mode, but I’ll stop before this whole post turns into a crappy travel guide. Now let’s switch the topic to discovering your passion.
What we’re talking about is the discovery of an activity (such as a skill) that you have a burning desire to pursue. Not every activity should be sought for the purpose of accumulating riches, but earning a living from something that you love to do and are passionate about can grant you both time and the necessary resources to keep pursuing that passion.
Today I’d like to link to seven posts related to Self-Learner that fall into several, simple categories. I’ve been for a long time a loyal RSS subscriber of ProBlogger, and this post idea comes directly from Darren Rowse’s recent 7 Link Challenge. Let’s get it started.
Studying at school and studying by yourself are like the yin and yang of education (terrible cliché, I know). The government takes you to school, and makes you learn a bunch of things, mostly related to subjects that are of no interest to you. But this raises a huge problem. Many of us didn’t like studying in school, especially in junior high school, and that impression about education has developed into a mess of negative emotions that flare up whenever we face the need to learn something new.
Your boss might tell you to get an additional certificate, and for this, you need to invest your free time in studying the materials for the exam. Or you might be thinking about going to college because it will bring you more job opportunities, but a bachelor’s degree is quite difficult to earn without studying. When we are forced to study, it naturally makes us resent studying.
Napoleon Hill is my favorite writer on success. His texts are an invaluable source of inspiration because of their practicality; anyone can start applying the principles immediately if he so chooses. So today, I would like to borrow the title of one of the chapters in his book, The Master-Key to Success (which I highly recommend you read), to illustrate how you can gain practical knowledge and skills by applying to rule of going the extra mile.
Self-Learner is a blog about self-education and self-improvement based lifestyle design. Goal? To become the best "version" of yourself, and feel excited to jump out of your bed every morning.