UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone 422. Achieving Big By Planning Small
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Sep 11, 2025 Discover why perfectionism can sabotage your path to success. Learn how rigid long-term plans can lead to procrastination instead of progress. Embrace the idea that taking the next right step matters more than meticulous planning. Understand how setting exciting yet scary goals can ignite your motivation. Dive into the journey of becoming a coach and explore essential strategies for goal-setting that prioritize immediate actions. Adaptability is highlighted as a crucial factor in achieving your ambitious dreams.
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You Don't Need A Grand Plan
- Big, elaborate long-term plans are not essential for major achievement.
- Sometimes those plans actually become a detriment by creating paralysis.
Planning Can Substitute For Action
- Overplanning can act as a perfectionist fantasy that replaces action with planning.
- Planning gives dopamine but often results in doing nothing meaningful toward the goal.
You Don't Need To Know The How
- Believing you must know every step blocks you from starting unfamiliar goals.
- If you already knew how to do it, you'd have done it, so the assumption is impossible.