In this short monologue, Nicolas Cole explains that the primary reason his goals consistently fail is a recurring mental pattern: he sets a goal, begins working on it, and then discovers it is harder, more boring, longer, or requires skills he lacks. Instead of persisting, he distracts himself by creating a new, different goal. This cycle repeats, preventing progress on the original objective.
The number one thing that I have pinpointed over the past decade as to why I don't make progress on goals is because I set a goal and then I start and then it turns out to be harder than I thought, more boring than I thought, is going to take longer than I thought, is going to require other skills that I didn't know I would need. And what I do is I then set a new goal, a different goal, to distract myself from that first goal. And that loop repeats itself over and over and over and over and over again.
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