Stop Setting Goals! Set Your Mindset and Direction

I’ve stopped setting goals. It seems like when I set goals,they don’t have much bearing on my actual day-to-day work. I geta lot done bysetting my mindset and direction instead. Here’s how.

There’s a lot of talk about goals and goal-setting, especially at the beginning of a new year. I have a number of problems with goals, most of allthey don’t help me achieve more.

Goals are results, and thus not inyour control. Goals are ends, not thepath to reach them. Goals focus on actions and results,...