Focus on systems everyday, not goals

photo by @devdxb on unsplash.com(Originally published in 2017, updated for 2019.)

In business, there is often a fixation on big goals and dramatic results. "Get 1 million followers! … Build a 6-figure business!"

When you constantly focus on future numerical goals, two things happen:

1. Your subconscious keeps telling you—daily—that you aren't there... that you aren't yet "enough".

Desire becomes a contract we make with ourselves to be unhappy until something specific happens. (paraphrase of Naval...