Ready to set goals for the New Year that will not be accomplished? It might be you want a system but call it a goal.
Use goals for definable and achievable things like save $1 a week until you have $100 to buy the item you want. Set a goal, set small achievable steps, mark them as you do them, achieve goal, and completely finish.
Use systems for goals like eating healthier, exercising, and working on your personality. Systems are actions that you incorporate into your life that will become lifelong habits.
Goal: add a fruit to breakfast and snack, and a veggie to lunch and dinner. This goal has no end, except in death or giving up. Your goal is not ever achieved or fulfilled.
System: add a fruit to breakfast and snack, and a veggie to lunch and dinner. This system is something you can continue your whole life and feel satisfied that it has no end. This is just something you do now, like brushing your hair and teeth. Sometimes you skip brushing your teeth or on sick days you don't brush your hair, but that doesn't mean you stop brushing on good days. You now have a system of eating more fruits and veggies, and if you miss a meal or a day or a week, you just get back into your system.
It's more than just semantics, it is two different ways of accomplishing two different ideas. They are both good and needed for different things. Goals are for short or long term items with a definable end. Systems are for items you want to keep doing your whole life. Habits are just something you do automatically, systems are something you start intentionally.
When you are setting goals this 2025 New Year, make sure you correctly label and implement them as goals or systems so you can live a happy fulfilled life.
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