American financier Ray Dalio gives advice on how to start achieving your goals. He is sure that it is important to get rid of these three harmful habits.
If it seems to you that you will never find a dream job that you will like, you will not live in abundance and you will not get much from life, think about this: have you chosen the right strategy of behavior? Maybe you are the one holding you back from achieving your true goals?
Dalio explains what traps people fall into who stay in one place for many years and cannot make a real qualitative breakthrough in their lives.
You are trying to achieve different things at the same time
“It’s important to figure out what you want out of life,” Dalio told CNBC. “To do that, you have to focus on some priorities and abandon others.”
The billionaire compares life to a giant buffet. The choice is huge, but it is impossible to try everything, the stomach cannot accommodate it. It’s the same with goals in life: you have to decide on the most desirable ones.
“Not selecting is a big mistake,” says Dalio. “Some people fail at this very moment, before they even begin to achieve their goals. They are afraid to give up one thing in favor of another, they rush for one thing, and then another. And in the end they get nothing.”
Confusing goals with desires
There is a difference. A goal is what you really want to achieve, a planned movement, an end result backed by motivation. And desire is a brief impulse that prompts us to act.
“Our desires can get in the way,” Dalio explains. For example, your goal is to lose weight, improve your health, get in good physical shape, and your desire is to eat tasty but unhealthy food. Find out what is more important to you. And if you still want to lose weight, then don’t even open the new packet of crisps.’
When it comes to careers, desires and goals can often overlap. And that’s good. For example, you want to communicate as much as possible with different people and not sit at the computer for hours, and your goal is to benefit society, help others, become a mentor. It is important that the desires contribute to the achievement of the goal, and not distract from it.
“Decide what you really want in life so that your goals don’t conflict with your desires,” writes Dalio. “What will ultimately satisfy you are things that feel right on both levels, both the level of desire and the level of purpose.”
You only want money
“I want to get rich – buy a car / apartment / new phone.” This habit of thinking about finances as an end goal is fundamentally wrong, notes the billionaire. Motivation should be more than money.
“Don’t confuse the attributes of success with success itself,” cautions Ray Dalio. “Achievement orientation is important, but people who obsess over buying a fancy car or house are rarely happy because they don’t know what they really want and therefore what will satisfy them.”
Famous business leaders such as Tim Cook, Richard Branson and Warren Buffett also encourage us to look for meaning beyond wealth.
“Don’t work for money – it gets boring quickly. Either you’ll never earn enough, or you’ll never be happy,” says Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Finally, we end again with Dalio’s words:
“No dream is too big to be realized. Great expectations create great opportunities. If you’re limiting your goals just because you don’t yet know how to achieve them, you’re effectively setting the bar too low.”
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2023-07-21 22:15:12
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