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It might sound weird to you why I say that you shouldn't focus on your goals but instead on a well defined system.

Oh and by the way, what's the difference between a goal and a system?

A goal is the result you want to achieve.

While a system is a process that leads to the result.

A goal is basically the destination while the system/process is the journey.

So am not saying you shouldn't set goals.

This reminds me of two friends Victoria and Grace.

I'm only going to tell you this story because I want to show you why you might be making mistakes, focusing on your goals.

While instead of goals you have to start thinking about processes/systems you can set to achieve your goals.

Back in 2019, around March, Victoria and Grace decided to set a goal to lose about 20kg.

This two friends were super excited about this new goal that their motivational energy was at peak.

So they bought a weight loss food plan and also registered in a gym.

The first day, Victoria went to the gym both in the morning and in the evening, followed up with her diet.

The second day, Victoria was still excited and made it a routine to go to the gym twice a day and also to follow up with her diet.

After one week, she started going to the gym once a day and sometimes missed to drink smoothie.

Sometimes she might visit the gym once in a week or two weeks and even forgot completely to follow up with her diet.

Then one day, she went to a laboratory to weigh her weight, to her disappointment, nothing changed.

So she stopped.

Few months later, she saw a motivational speaker talking about the importance of goal setting.

Victoria got motivated again.

And she started from square one.

Went to the gym, followed up with her diet, went back to weigh, only to lose 1kg.

And got discouraged and stopped only to be surprised when she saw Grace's slim but curvy shape a year later.

When she asked Grace about the secret of her curvy shape.

Grace told her that she did the same thing Victoria did; went to the gym and also ate the diet.

Victoria was confused�

"How come that I can't get the same results?" A worried Victoria complained.

"Shaaa, I don't know ooo" Grace replied.

"All I did was to create a plan to gym 30minutes 5 times a week but follow up with my diet daily" Grace told her.

"So after one week what happened? Didn't you go to check your weight? " Victoria asked further

"Nothing, I just followed the plan"

"I only weigh monthly, nothing happened the first month, I felt discouraged but sticked to the plan, that's all" Grace.

As simple as that? Yes but No!

Have you ever wondered why sometimes you set big goals at the beginning of a year.

Only to realize that you didn't accomplish any at the end of that year?

Then you are Victoria in the above story, you get so excited about your goals.

So excited about the results that you forgot to create a system/process to stick to like Grace.

You are business person and your goal is to increase your profit from 100 dollars yearly to 200 dollars yearly.

So you know that inorder to meet up with your 200dollar goal, you must hold a meeting with 2 prospects daily.

Instead of focusing on 200dollars at the end of 2022.

Why not invest your energy, time and resources meeting with 2 prospects per day?

You might get discouraged and tired along the way but sticking to the plan, it will suddenly become a routine and at the end of the 2022.

Booom!

200dollars made!

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