Lessons from a Quitter Stop Rushing Your Life: The Truth About Goal Setting
Dec 9, 2025
In this discussion, listeners are urged to reconsider the rush toward achievement. The host shares her personal philosophy of selecting just one meaningful goal each year to enhance life's richness. She highlights the dangers of over-goal-setting, warning that it breeds self-criticism and hampers joy. The conversation challenges the 'I'll be happy when' mindset, emphasizing the importance of savoring the present. By asking, 'What's my rush?', individuals can reconnect with their current experiences and choose goals that truly foster presence and enjoyment.
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Choose One Yearly Goal
- Pick one primary goal each year and let other things be secondary or optional.
- Constrain focus to reduce shame and preserve willpower for the goal that matters most.
One Year, One Business Goal
- In 2020 Goli chose one goal: build a business and make $100,000, while dropping other expectations.
- Focusing on that single goal helped her hit or nearly hit it and reduced self-shaming.
Achievement Won't Solve Identity
- We chase multiple goals because we believe changing external things will make us lovable or happy.
- Arrival doesn't fix identity; new achievements create new stresses and leave core self unchanged.