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Why Big Goals Are Easier To Achieve

Name: Why Big Goals Are Easier To Achieve
Uploaded: 2024-09-19T16:00:27+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that larger goals become more attainable when paired with longer timelines. By contrasting an…

19 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that larger goals become more attainable when paired with longer timelines. By contrasting an impossible short‑term deadline (learning French by tomorrow) with a realistic long‑term horizon (learning French—or even ten languages—over a decade), the speaker shows that extending the timeline makes the goal feel achievable and allows consistent progress. The speaker also critiques short‑term thinking and habitual scrolling, noting that people often set only unrealistic, near‑term goals, which ultimately sabotages their success from the start.

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The bigger your goal, the bigger timeline has to be. And the bigger your timeline, the easier it is. If I said you have to learn French and you don't speak French and you have to do it by tomorrow, it's impossible. There's no way that you're going to be able to do it. But if I said you have to learn in a decade, you're like, oh, I could, I could easily do it. You could probably learn 10 languages in a decade. All of a sudden, the goals that you have can be significantly more achievable and you can feel like you're consistently making progress by moving out your timeline. But because people are so short-term minded, because they can't just stop scrolling over and over again, they actually make it harder for them to achieve their goals because because the only goals that they deem acceptable are ones that are on an unrealistic timeline. And so they doom themselves from the beginning.