Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

by Anthony Raymond

Goals require action to accomplish. The opposite of action is inaction. So the enemy of goal accomplishment is inactivity. This inactivity is typically the result of a psychological state of apathy, sloth, despair, or fatigue. More generally, the behavior manifested by these emotions falls under the rubric of “procrastination.”