Are Goals More Important Than Habits To Warriors ? What's Your Take ?

Sounds like the topic of goals and habits makes you feel very agitated or frustrated ?

How do you think it will feel when you reach the next level in your life ?And. how would you go about that ?

well looking for that one something that is the most important to do .. in order to get success .. once they figure out once success is.. or that will guarantee they get success ..

or something they can show other people to say look i'm a success .. because at the point they are at they are not ..and may never look like a success .

blah .. i don't care about that anymore ..use to ..but i have had to rip a lot of that out in the last year. as much of it was pointing away from doing what i want.. but i have still been able to achieve personal goals that i don't have to really explain..

habits are easy ..a person may have a habitual path they drive to work.. but if they change jobs .. even if they had the same job 15 years.. they don't keep driving the old way to work.. if they have to go a completely different path..

much of this motivation stuff and success stuff .. turns things that should be simple into very complex things .. because to feel like an accomplishment it needs to be a struggle .

to wear the struggle like a badge of honor to to explain whatever accomplishment they have .

when someone basically is already better of and has more than 6-7 billion other people on this planet ..it is counter productive to make someone fail like a failure ..and get all upset about what they don't have ..

but i am where i am.. and i can reach for the next level of better stuff.. then the next ..

Thanks for you response.
I think that you aren't alone in that viewpoint.
There have been lots of books published on habits for exactly the reason that you talked about in this post.
Habits are indeed difficult to maintain because they require some degree of willpower and like you put it daily practice.
Goals definitely can change over time and evolve depending on all of our situations in life. However, I would say that some habits can change over time as we evolve into more of what we want to become in our lives . Thank you very much for your thoughts and opinions. Much appreciated, very good insight.

Okay ... That makes sense I can understand that perspective for sure... So your saying that goals are more out of reach and that focusing on the habit is easier to do instead of focusing on the goal because focusing on the habit is more concrete and easier to see yourself doing.

Thank you and nicely put.
Appreciate that insightfulness .
It's very true.

Nice that's awesome.... So it's also a different perspective and intent is so important.

Being intentional in our daily lives with our energy and with our focus can be a major force.

So if intention is working for you then that's awesome.

No matter if you use goals or habits or both in some capacity I think you need to be intentional with your actions so if you only use intent as your one thing so to speak, then that is really cool because it seems like you simplified something with your own type of modification...

But what's important I think is that intentuon used how you describe, can serve as a type of framework from which to be consistent with.

Which builds momentum and although that is a kind of a different topic I think your still probably, if I'm reading you right... Are getting some pretty consistent momentum which is awesome which means you should be seeing some results in your life and you are future focused which is a really positive place to work from.

Am I getting this right ?


Best

Gregg

P.S. Sorry for the run on sentence i.e. paragraph.

Thanks for the response ...

Having both I believe are important.

However, habits are very specific so they wouldn't include everything.

I am guessing that you are meaning that you would find the most powerful thing to do and then do that every day ?

Thank you for sharing.

Your thoughts and your opinions are valued.

Best

Greg

Great advice: Thanks DABK.

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Enjoy.
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Hi DABK,

Thanks for your response to the post on habits and goals.

It seems that you have been triggered by the question about habits and goals and I am sorry for that.

I didn't think that the post was offensive.

But I digress, to answer your question which illustrates the point of the topic on this post.

Let me ask you a similar question: What part of the car is more important, the engine or the transmission system.

It it were my car the engine is definitely worth more and also is much much more valuable than the transmission, so I would definitely say engine (especially in a Dodge) .

However, we all drive different cars and for that reason the answer to your question will vary from person to person.

I kind of get where you are going with your argument with regard to habits and goals but I'm not so sure why you seem to feel so very angry about the topic.

It seems as though you think that goals and habits are the same thing and you are assuming that you need both a goal and a habit together to work in concert much like an engine and a transmission is needed in order for the car to move.

However this is not the case. Anyone can set a goal but to complete one and complete one on time takes work, but to set and achieve a goal does not require a habit it only takes action.

The action that a person can take to complete a goal can be done in big or little spurts. Habits are consistently done on a routine basis.

So... To set and work towards a habit does not require a goal.

A habit doesn't have to represent the action of the goal that's why most people who set goals work off of plans that are weekly and monthly and yearly etc.

My purpose in asking this question was to see what works for people in this area. If habits are working for most people and goals are not then we can all learn from that.

I really think that you kind of took this question out of context and I'm sorry that it seemed to anger you.

Best Greg,

P.S. If your goal is to increase your first conversion step by 1% at the end of the week, that would be a goal. However, if you had a habit of trying to increase every conversion that you had every week then you wouldn't need to set that goal it would already become automatic. See how this works ?

Discipline. Can't have habits or goals without it.

Exactly, for example everyone competing at the Olympics has the goal of winning th gold medal. However it's the person who has the best habits that will actually win it. Who ever had the best workout, practice, and discipline habits is going to win over the others.

And the higher chance you have of burning out.

Been there and you get far more done than most, but also end up wanting to bite through the nearest table, so yeah, not advisable for any long periods of time.

Amm, half past eleven.